Author Topic: Is it ok?  (Read 2047 times)

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Is it ok?
« on: March 27, 2013, 12:34:41 pm »
To put my ewe with her ramb lamb (just over a week old) out with two other ewes. One of these ewes never went to the ram and the other had her lamb born dead a couple of weeks ago.
At the moment these two ewes are with a pregnant ewe but she is due to come inside as she should lamb sometime in the next week. The pregnant ewe will have the company of another ewe who is due this weekend.
I am trying to work it out so that everyone has some company.
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Is it ok?
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2013, 01:02:12 pm »
Sounds good  :thumbsup:

I know it's not always easy with small numbers!
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Is it ok?
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2013, 02:19:21 pm »
Thankyou SITN  :thumbsup:
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Is it ok?
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2013, 04:01:53 pm »
It is hard with small numbers (both sheep and cattle  ::) ) but we mix and match depending on what's going on and since they all actually know each other anyway, they're usually fine.

Otherwise you end up with loads of tiny groups taking up paddocks.

We've got our 6 twin bearing ewes in the barn; the three single bearing ewes and the three ewe lambs in the paddock with field shelter and the barren ewe with the tup and wether. The three singles will be coming into the barn on Friday and the barren ewe will go in with the ewe lambs. As they lamb, the ewes and lambs will join the ewe lambs and Nellie. I don't think Ryelands are high stress sheep tbh  ;)

 

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