i will always deliver the second lamb if i deliver the first, get the intrusion over with, does any body else do that?
BH does. He's a commercial farmer, we only lamb 300-ish these days; in his heyday it was twice that number. When you have that number, of course you make sure #2 is okay while you're there; it could be some hours before you get back to this particular ewe.
When it's smallholder / small flocks, part of what we are doing is trying to keep things as natural and stressfree as possible - so unless she needs intervention, we'd avoid intervening.
Having said which, if #1 was stuck and needed help, then I'd be inclined to get #2 out straight away too, in case it had got into any strife while being held up by the logjam.
The danger with being gungho about it is that inexperienced sheepkeepers would be in there all the time, introducing infection, bruising mum's insides, etc. So vets generally advise patience and caution.
When you're experienced and have developed judgement of when something's amiss, then of course you just get stuck in when necessary. (But not otherwise.
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