Rosie's lambing thread: The wait is over! Welcome Rasputin!

I think I saw a few little contractions. She is currently pacing her pen and pawing the ground.

She wouldn't do anything with us there. Lets hope for a lamb by morning

hope all goes well, and hope you can get some sleep tonight...

No lamb, but she is acting off more so than the past four days. She ate her grain but isn't foraging around her pen. She is so uncomfortable, I feel so bad for her. Everyone is asking if shes had it yet

So, it figures BYH goes down when Rosie went to lamb

Anyways, yesterday Rosie had been acting off more so than usual. While we were outside she gave a contraction but since she faked us on saturday I wasn't overly convinced, and this was at around 10am. However by 3 pm she had, had about 5-6 more contractions so I knew we were getting close. Its funny because I had been taking on and off naps throughout the day and when I woke up I was hungry. So me and my dad were about to go get some sandwiches and this was around 5:30 PM. I said "let me go check on Rosie". Nothing,I sat in my dads truck for about 10 minutes before doing one last check. And then she started pushing. I ran out to get my dad, and by then the bag was starting to come out. I said "Dad go get your phone to videotape it" By this time we could see the head. My dad was gone for a second and by the time he came out the lamb was born. The birth was so fast and by the book. Once I saw the bag the lamb was out within five minutes.

I was sort of the midwife in the situation, I cleaned off the lambs nose and cleared its mouth and then... The ultimate check, I lifted the leg and.. Its a boy! We named the little guy Rasputin. I dragged him up to mom, and man are they slippery! Rosie was a good Mom and cleaned him off well. He got up fast, and was immediately searching for the teat. After a few hours he was already bouncing around, to the best of his abilities.

Im so happy If any of you guys are familiar with FFA we have a mandatory project called an SAE project. I picked sheep breeding and My dad got video of me pulling the lamb and doing all the mandatory stuff, which I will get to show to my class at the end of the year. Im so happy it went perfect, and we have a close eye on him.

Now here are some pictures!



Sorry the stall was dark

Congratulations! So happy that everything went text book and that you were there for it! Rasputin is a handsome devil too Nicely done!

Edit: Hope you finally got something to eat... how was the sandwich?

Congrats!

Is the lambs back end supposed to be messy. He has a quite messy back end.

ummmm @secuono @purplequeenvt @Roving Jacobs Did he get colostrum? Have you taken his temp?