After much anticipation our girls began lambing on Sunday morning. I went to do their hay at 05.30 prior to going to work and the girls all came to the barn door for their hay, it was then that something caught my eye moving behind one of the pallet stalls.
On further inspection a little ewe lamb had been born, she was very cold and unresponsive i tried to get her on her mother but she didn't have the energy so i grabbed the colostrum and the stomach tube and tube fed her.
I got my OH out of bed to come and help. The little lamb was in a bad way so we grabbed the heat lamp into the lambing pen and my OH syringe fed her small amounts of colostrum every hour and put her on a hot waterbottle wrapped in a towel.
I had to leave for work but phoned back on my break at 10:30 and was told things were not looking good at all, so i went back into work gutted and sick to the stomach.. I called back again on my second break at 15:00 and asked nervously how she was doing.
Much to my suprise my OH told me she was still hanging on and in the mean time there was a newly arrived set of twins. I finished work and raced home at 18:00 and straight to the lambing shed to be confronted by not 3 but 4 newborn lambs in the last 20Min's prior to my arrival one of my other girls had had a lamb!!!
The smallest lamb first born became known as smelly butt, i continued hourly checks and feeding as much as possible through the night. I now have 4 beautiful ewe lambs, which are called Smelly butt, Anne, Francis and Kay. The later three being named after my late mother who was obviously Anne Francis Kay.
We are still witing for another two ewes to lamb in this batch and a further 5 ewes in about a fortnight, so still lots of hard work ahead... but i wouldnt change it for the world
Please meet Smelly Butt, Anne and Francis and finally Kay
Topic: Lambs are finally arriving! (Read 4109 times)
