[Roxy]

Well, I brought the three  Gotland ewes in last Sunday - it was snowing, and I was worried if they lambed outside in that sort of weather.  Got hubby to make a makeshift shelter.  Its actually very nice - what was the previous tenants muck store.  We just put a big wagon sheet on the top as a roof, and sheep hurdles across the front, and that's it!!
 
Anyway, just waiting now .....girls are enormous, but cannot work out if that's lambs, or just their fleece. Really need shearing, but given the weather up here on top of the world, not sure its a good idea yet, and would not be happy for them to be sheared if they are near lambing......so much fleece, cannot even see if they have udders.
 
They could be just all fleece, and not in lamb  I suppose ......I have even bought one of the mineral buckets for in lamb ewes and put that in with them!!!  They seem quite at home in their new abode.

[Beeducked]

The waiting is horrible isnt it!

I was also worrying that mine might just be wooly rather than pregnant although one does look like she's swallows a tyre! Pretty sure she is pregnant. Sadly the prolapse confirms another is pregnant. Keeping my fingers crossed for her.

Good Luck with yours. Their new des res sounds great.

[Rosemary]

Our first was due yesterday, but I guess today or tomorrow. The triplet is due Wednesday but has a huge udder so maybe she'll go early. Waiting, waiting 

[Foobar]

The waiting is the worst bit, it just up's your stress levels unnecessarily.  I find once the first one has started I relax (a bit).


Most of mine are done now, just waiting for the last two ewe lambs to pop.  One due thursday and one due two tuesdays ago(!) - I'm assuming I missed a repeat raddle mark on her and so she should therefore be due this friday.


I think next year I'll seriously consider sponging, cos I started on 2nd March this year so this'll be a 5 week span, which is a right pain!

[Me]

Time it for a weekend and induce them too! Get them scanned though so you don't abort repeaters!

[Foobar]

I'm thinking time it to start on 28th March, then I only need to take four days off work as the following weekend is Easter.  That would be late enough in the year for all my ewe lambs to catch too.  I can't justify the cost of scanning alas, as I only have about 12-14, and i'm not fussed about inducing, I'd rather be as natural as possible (except for the sponging of course).

[Red]

Well it is our first lambing this year, we have 10 hebredian and i was really excited until I watched lambing live ... Now im really quite nervious about it all, we are due from the 7th so fingers    It all goes ok ! The maternity bag is ready and the hip flasks!

[Roxy]

It is the waiting that puts your stress levels up.  Also have a goat due very soon, so have separated her from her buddy, and keeping an eye on her as well as the ewes. 
 
My friend  (non farming) asked when the lambs were due, as she wanted to come and see them......tongue in cheek I said   "Next Tuesday, about 2pm"
"Oh great ....I will come over" says friend, before realising I was winding her.
 
If only it were that simple, eh??

[Bionic]

My friend  (non farming) asked when the lambs were due, as she wanted to come and see them......tongue in cheek I said   "Next Tuesday, about 2pm"
"Oh great ....I will come over" says friend, before realising I was winding her.
 
If only it were that simple, eh??

Hmmm, don't know about next Tuesday but 2am would probably be nearer the mark 

[Pedwardine]

Can you give 'em a wee trim in the necessary areas so you and babies have easier access and no wool suckling goes on (lambies not you!)

[Rosemary]

I can't justify the cost of scanning alas, as I only have about 12-14

We only have 12 lambing and we scan - £30 to get them done. Well worth the money, IMHO.

[Roxy]

Well, as I am not at work today, and had a little time, I had a close look at the ewes.  Filly who is the most enormous of the three, has a massive udder -so definitely one in lamb!!  The other two, I cannot feel any bag at all.  Filly is lying down a lot, but that of course could be down to her being full up, or too fat to waddle round any more!!!
 
Goats udders can fill up quite a way in advance of the birth - do ewes?  There again,as I have only just seen the udder,there is no way I know how long its been that big!!  By big, I mean a good size, not as big as a prize milking goat of course.  Its soft, though.

[mab]

I too am waiting - for my four new (to me) easycares.  I don't have a precise due date but was aiming for beginning of april. For a while I wondered if they were pregnant at all, but there's no doubt now - they're big and they're bagging up.  Just hoping I haven't let them get too fat - didn't feed them much but with the winter so mild...  [size=78%]too late to do much about it now I guess.[/size]

[Roxy]

My husband has been doing the feeding.  I kept telling him not to overdo the feed!!  They have had a lot of hay though....  We are very high up here. and usually have bad snow and frosts, but like everywhere, its been wet this time.  I would expect the animals to have come through the winter looking a bit better than they usually would. 
 
I hope mine are not too fat under all that fleece!!

[Beeducked]

I know that feeling. A little while ago I told my OH it was time to increase the feed to 2 scoops and he said "but that's what I have always given them!!!"

Luckily he only feeds them once a week or so.