[ZaktheLad]

Your lamb still living down under then?

[FiB]

I wish I knew haw to fix that! Mind you I feel upside down at the moment getting up in night to feed the bloody pet lamb!

[suziequeue]

Here's our little ram lamb - being weighed at birth. 4.7kg!!! He was one of twins and the other as 3.5kg. Mum pushed him out no problems.

All our lambing has been fine this year. Two left to come out.

[Bionic]

We had a lovely little girl yesterday, Ulrika. Mum did all the work herself. Still waiting for 2 more to lamb and they don't seem to be in any hurry.
Still I'm not in a hurry either as the rain continues to bash down.

[mab]

I think I'm going a bit 'bipolar' with lambing - I keep swinging between 'oh no: they're all gonna DIE' and 'oh they all seem fine now'.


Although the expert advice at this end seems to be to worry less, it does come from someone who suggests that if the lamb were to die it could save me a lot of bottle feeding. But then I worry about the ones that haven't lambed yet - one of them looks enormous and another very big - and I do see a lot of bottle feeding in my future...

[Hartwelljulie]

Here's another wee success story - another of my Herdy girls succesfully gave birth to twins on Sunday and this time I got to see it!  Two gorgeous tup lambs - no problems at all - and this the ewe lamb who nearly died at a year old from pine - I was force feeding her and with much tlc she pulled through.  Still smaller and leaner than the others but a fantastic mum.  Herdys as such fantastic mums and just seem to get on with it.  Very proud  

[FiB]

I think I'm going a bit 'bipolar' with lambing - I keep swinging between 'oh no: they're all gonna DIE' and 'oh they all seem fine now'.


Although the expert advice at this end seems to be to worry less, it does come from someone who suggests that if the lamb were to die it could save me a lot of bottle feeding. But then I worry about the ones that haven't lambed yet - one of them looks enormous and another very big - and I do see a lot of bottle feeding in my future...

So with you... I've got a Lleyn who looks like the fat one off Sean the sheep... She is ENORMOUS and 3 weeks to go! Expecting quads...

[Pedwardine]

Love the lamb in a bucket pic 

[steve_pr]

Agree with the general sentiments here.  It is always the problems that get the postings, everyone else is staying cautious until lambing has finished. We have had a good lambing season - 40 delivered just fine, 1 dead on arrival (other twin fine) and final one still hanging on and determined to be last!


Biggest problems this year (and also for our neighbours who are old hands at this an professionals) has been the high numbers of empty ewes - upwards of 20% across multiple breeds.  Must have been the weather down in this part of Wales I guess.

[twizzel]

I lost a lamb on Friday, but still have these 17 to keep me on my toes and all doing well    spent their first night out in the garden last night 

[Bionic]

They are looking lovely 

[twizzel]

Thanks, hard work and constant worry, I'll be much happier when they are all out in the field grazing properly