Author Topic: invaluable lambing kit items  (Read 8179 times)

Red

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • North Yorkshire
Re: invaluable lambing kit items
« Reply #15 on: March 16, 2015, 08:07:06 pm »
I have written idiots guides for when it goes wrong so I don't panick and as I have to work we have friends who help, and this makes them feel a lot better! Also a comfy deck chair and warm socks ... Just off to check my girls now, 10 due to start today and already 5 showing signs! Very excited and nervous  :innocent:
Red

Jukes Mum

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • North Yorkshire
Re: invaluable lambing kit items
« Reply #16 on: March 16, 2015, 08:11:06 pm »
Hope all goes well Red x
Don’t Monkey With Another Monkey’s Monkey

farmvet

  • Joined Feb 2014
Re: invaluable lambing kit items
« Reply #17 on: March 16, 2015, 10:57:31 pm »
Pack of babywipes. Handy when the bucket of water & hibiscrub you carefully got ready is either tipped over or miles from where you eventually caught the ewe.
Ewe restrainer: Yellow plastic thing you put over the ewes neck & hook the front legs in. You can then leave her secure while you collect all the items you need & quietly get on with lambing without trying to hold down 100kg of uncooperative ewe

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: invaluable lambing kit items
« Reply #18 on: March 16, 2015, 11:19:58 pm »
Gosh - this lot sounds scary!
plus it sounds like you need a wheelbarrow to carry it all round in!
 
Needing to pick some feed up in the next couple of days, better buy some extras while I'm there :-(
(On the presumption if I've got it I won't need it)

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: invaluable lambing kit items
« Reply #19 on: March 17, 2015, 08:20:47 am »
Empty large Lucozade bottles are very handy for carrying water till it's needed - buckets always get tipped over!   :D
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

Jamie12

  • Joined Nov 2013
Re: invaluable lambing kit items
« Reply #20 on: March 17, 2015, 09:24:17 am »
Loving these replies.

A ewe restrainer would come in rather handy!

Buffy the eggs layer

  • Joined Jun 2010
Re: invaluable lambing kit items
« Reply #21 on: March 17, 2015, 01:25:00 pm »
I only keep things in my kit that I actually use. So far though that consists of,,,,,,,


Calciject
Propolene Glycol such as Ceto Phytol or Ketosaid
Betomox LA
Metacam
Might get some oxytocin in for next year


Iodine,
Spectam
Volostrum
Only buy milk powder in as I need it. The volostrum  buys me time until the shops open.
syringes and needles in a variety of sizes for drenching and injecting.
wormer for the ewes after lambing
tail docking rings and applicator
stomach tube
Feed bottles and valve teats
plastic measuring jugs
scales
thermometer for animals and one for milk temp
Shepheress bucket
Lamb kick start
sterilizing solution




Hand wash gel
clean towells,
a kettle
bucket
clean water
paper towel
Shears
disinfectant


Fortunatly my lambing is all finished for this year but the onlything that I havent used from the list above is the stomach tube.

 

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