The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: DartmoorLiz on May 09, 2014, 02:08:20 pm
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Sorry, couldn't resist the pun.
From the "rig" post I'm guessing that an udder on a "barren" ewe means they're not barren. How much udder is enough udder and is there any way of telling when they'll have their lambs.
I usually scan and know dates but our ram seemed to be firing blanks and I left him in with them for ages but one of his ewes is now wide and has a small udder. The scanner said she was a "maybe". How do I tell the difference between overweight and pregnant? :thinking:
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Its an udder catastrophe
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I wish I knew. Udder wise I am hanging about waiting for them to lamb :roflanim:
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Have an udder look at her vulve. Large, pink & soft? Udderly likely she's pregnant.
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my "barren" ewe spent the winter in with the ram. I notice 3 weeks ago that she was more triangular shaped than square shaped, when you look from front or behind. Had a tiny udder, literally a handful! Brought her closer to home and a week later her udder was a bigger handful, then monday night she started pawing the ground. Her vulva hadnt changed at all, udder was seriously not bagged up, but out popped 2 weeny little ram lambs!! Still not got a huge bag but lambs are full and content.
Udderly amazing!! :)
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:roflanim:
What an udder surprise! Good luck with your lambs - hope she can feed them - with her diddy udder.