purplequeenvt - Lambs 2017

You have some really beautiful lambs. Congratulations to you on keeping them safe. Their 'elemental' names are going to be difficult to remember.....I have tended to go for easy to remember....Horns (has horns), Dotty (has dots), Longface, Mrs T (always has triplets), Myrtle (bleats with a murrrrr sound), Ermentrude(bleat sounds just like that), Maggot (had maggots), Popeye (had to have eye removed after fighting)etc. I do have some with rather more romantic sounding names, though.....Seren (Welsh for 'star'....star on her forehead, Marilyn (a real beauty) etc.

Hoping Thallium continues to thrive.

The tiny ones can do fine. LLeila (my avatar) weighed less than a pound, whilst her 'twin' brother weighed over 14. Her lungs were, however, mature. She had to be hand fed, but has grown into a healthy ewe.

Good luck with your little ones.

purplequeenvt said:

Thallium is going to be fine. She's full of spunk today and finally decided to start taking her meals from the bottle.

Esme had ewe/ram twins last night.

Polonium (Polly)


Astatine (Atticus)


And then this morning, right before leaving for work at 4:15 am, I found Ree with twin girls just born. Her 2 are itty bittys. She's a first timer and was a little freaked by them nursing. It didn't help that the smaller one had to stand on tippy toes to reach the teat. They seem to have figured everything out now.

Radon (Donna)


Francium (Franny)

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I love love seeing these precious new lambs. Kinda helps as I wait for mine!

Carolina the Southdown had ram/ewe twins this evening. Really nice looking babies.

There's a first timer that appears to be in labor and we induced Willow tonight. Willow is huge and has had borderline ketosis for almost 2 months now. Her udder is full and she's ready to go, but we really need her lamb while people are around due to her increase risk. Supposedly the drugs can take up to 24 hours to work, but the last ewe we induced was dilated a few hours later and Willow is already showing signs of labor. It may be a long night.

purplequeenvt said:

Carolina the Southdown had ram/ewe twins this evening. Really nice looking babies.

There's a first timer that appears to be in labor and we induced Willow tonight. Willow is huge and has had borderline ketosis for almost 2 months now. Her udder is full and she's ready to go, but we really need her lamb while people are around due to her increase risk. Supposedly the drugs can take up to 24 hours to work, but the last ewe we induced was dilated a few hours later and Willow is already showing signs of labor. It may be a long night.

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Good luck with Willow!

Make a pot of coffee!

We had the vet out this afternoon to do a c-section on Willow. She was not progressing the way she should have been, especially with the drugs she was given to induce her.

The c-section was a success as far as the lambs were concerned. 3 live babies! 2 girls and a boy. They are doing well.

Willow has a long recovery ahead of her. She's doing well at the moment. She's up and eating. We don't think she's going to take her babies after that stress, but we are trying. Chance for infection is high.

Willow and her babies.


So the reason for all the trouble is that one of the babies (1st in line) had her head turned back. There wasn't room for her to get turned correctly, and, because her head was back, Willow's cervix wasn't getting the correct signals. Babies are all doing well. The girls were both 9.5 lbs and the boy was 8.5.

This was the 1st in line to be born, but #3 when taken out by alternative means. I call her Roadblock. Not actually her name obviously.

Hope she recover uneventfully! Congrats on the babies!

That was a good call. It sounds like you would have lost all 4 of them.

They're so adorable! Glad you were able to get them out safely.and I hope Willow recovers well.

Also you take beautiful pictures. I have been meaning to say that.

Geez @purplequeenvt, you sure seem to be having a lot of good old Vermont pot holes in your lambing road this year. Glad it all came out well.