Been waiting for my last shearling ewe to lamb (scanned for twins) and she's been on two hourly checks.
Yesterday morning 6am she's happily grazing wondering why I'm looking in without breakfast. At 8am turn up with breakfast to find her in the far corner of the field in the pouring rain and wind, where the electric fence forms a V shape.
She's licking up one lamb. The other was lying nearby with it's neck over the bottom strand of the electric fence and it's little body jerking with every pulse of the energiser.
I rushed over, picked her up and gave her a cuddle, sad that a little life had been cut short before it even started.
To my amazement, as I cuddled her she wriggled and gave a weak bleat, she was still alive and shivering!
I put her in a pen with mum and sister (who was also shivering) under a heat lamp for a few hours. Mum then took over licking her dry.
She was still weak but some lamb KickStart plus a sachet of Volostrum split between her and her sister saw them strong enough to stand and seek out mum's udder before too long.
This morning I found two little ewe lambs with nicely rounded bellies curled up together with a proud mum watching over them.
I still can't believe she survived!
Topic: A Little Miracle? (Read 1822 times)
