[tommytink]

Another one this morning!
When I went to shed to check she was already pushing. Left her and she delivered it herself which was great. A single ram lamb. It was hard leaving them be. I am definitely over-anxious but keep telling myself what someone said here - stop and think why I’m going to do something. So I also stayed out the way and watched him find the teat. It’s been drilled into me how important colostrum is!
If the others lambs are the same I hope it means we got our feeding right - single lamb wasn’t massive and twins weren’t tiny. 

I’ve been looking at ear-tagging and registration- it says they need to be tagged before nine months of age. So until they’re tagged I don’t register them in any way?

[tommytink]

I will add that most of my ewes have needed help- mainly due to mispresented lambs, not sure why    great example was found a triplet last week with 2 good sized lambs- if she wasn’t scanned you would think she had just had twins. Put my hand in and all I could feel was a tail     

What sheep have you got Twizzel?

I thought yesterday I should’ve checked my twin lamber didn’t have another, but she did pass two afterbirths. The first one the guy said feel in there and see so I could see what it felt like when there aren’t any more.

[twizzel]

Lleyns... normally easy lambing    but they are prolific. I don’t think it’s just the lleyn ram that is influencing the malpresented lambs but will be interesting to see what happens when he goes in the summer and we start lambing his replacement’s lambs next year.


R.e tagging it can be done up to 9 mths but best either done now at birth or in the autumn after flies have gone. In which case tag slaughter lambs before you load onto trailer. Registration all depends on the breed society. You’ll need to note births in your flock/movement book though, and castrate any ram lambs before 1 week of age, same with ringing tails.

[tommytink]

So if I tag before turning them out that’ll be okay. Then I can record their numbers in the book. I was thinking I had to notify somewhere like you do the movements.

Will do the castration. No docking of tails for these guys though. I have joined the flock society but it’s all a bit vague, they didn’t send me any info or anything and their website was down!!

Had another new lamb this morning. She did it all by herself as well as I went against my urge to interfere!!

[SallyintNorth]

Looks grand  - and all the better for not being manhandled