SheepGirl's 2014 Lambing Thread

Took photos of the flock. I'm starting to see baby bumps on some of the ewes.

I started Ciqala on 1/4 lb of grain on Jan 7, and today it was upped to 1/2 lb of grain. I may give her 1 lb of grain every day pre lambing just to keep her condition up since she is an older ewe, and she has been successfully breeding and lambing every 8 months since Jan 2012.

First up, the ewe flock.

Ciqala


Ali


Lady Gaga


Katy Perry


Rosie


Bella


And the ram lambs...no photos of Hank because I only got one of him doing the Flehmen response and he looked pretty goofy

Edward


Emmett

I will go ahead and post Hank's picture. He can't be embarrassed about it because he won't know about it! Rosie is behind him, Edward is on the right and next to Edward I'm pretty sure is Ali (it looks like her butt! Either hers or Bella's. But definitely not Ciqala, Katy Perry, or Lady Gaga. Their butts don't look like that )

Silly Hank....

Poor Hank got caught by the camera!!! Your sheep are looking good! Can't wait for the lambies

27 more days!

Ciqala was vaccinated on Jan 15 for CD/T.

I'm so excited for lambs!!

Time has gone by so fast and the ewes are starting to show. Ciqala has begun to look really round, I will see if I can get some photos of her later this week. We got snow today and I'm not sure if I will go to work tomorrow. I worked today, but we closed at 5:30. And I left my car there and my boss drove me home since I'm on his way home and he drives a truck with four wheel drive and I have a car with rear wheel drive haha. Snow drifts in our driveway are as high as 3 feet so we had to drive around them

So if my parents aren't going to work tomorrow, then I'll just call out. It shouldn't be too busy tomorrow anyway so they shouldn't have much trouble without me

Lots of snow this year, I ran out of bedding. I need to go buy more straw because the sheep shack is a goopy saturated mess. I might go buy pine shavings though. Won't be as warm, but it will soak up the wetness.

SheepGirl said:

I will go ahead and post Hank's picture. He can't be embarrassed about it because he won't know about it! Rosie is behind him, Edward is on the right and next to Edward I'm pretty sure is Ali (it looks like her butt! Either hers or Bella's. But definitely not Ciqala, Katy Perry, or Lady Gaga. Their butts don't look like that )

Silly Hank....
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Looking good! Your lambs always look like cute little teddy bears

Three weeks to go

The whitefaced ewes all have swollen pink vulvas. The brownfaced ewes have regular purple vulvas. Kind of funny

Annddd Ciqala is look just as big if not bigger at 3 wks away as she did last year 3 wks away. Large set of twins? Or maybe triplets again? Here's a picture of her from last year...I'm going to get new photos taken tomorrow of them.



ETA this photo... She looks extra thin because I hadn't fed them yet that day, so she has an empty rumen. She's on 1 lb of grain per day plus horse quality grass hay. Her BCS is a 2.5. She doesn't look as wide in the front view, but the top view, I think she does.

Did manage to take some photos a couple days ago, but I will upload them later today.

Two more weeks! I'm so excited And 30 more days for Rosie, so she starts getting grain and she will be vaccinated, too.

I had a dream last night that Ciqala had a single ram lamb. Felt so bad because he had no other lambs to play with for two weeks