The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Old Shep on April 27, 2017, 12:49:22 pm
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As today our last ewe lambed I now have the time to share this with you. Last week this chap was born, a rare single from a Mule, had to be pulled just the last little bit, but was up and doing fairly quickly. I think he's the biggest we've ever had - he weighed in at 18 pounds at birth!!! This is him about 30 minutes old.
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Odd, isn't it, how you occasionally get a really big lamb when the ewe's been on the same feed regime as the others. We once asked our vet to guess the age of one of our Badger Face lambs - judging by her size he said three weeks - it was actually ten hours.
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Yes as we scan she wasn't fed very much at all. As she has very big teats though its quite handy that he was born with the mouth to cope with them!
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We had a huge single from a mule last year. Dwarfed everything in the field. When I was pulling him he just went on and on and on! Same as MF said you would have thought he was three weeks old at birth.
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It may be unrelated but people who have high blood sugar during pregnancy often have large babies so perhaps the ewe had high blood sugar.