Bruce
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Congrats on the lamb!!
Since she is overproducing, you get to take some for yourself
Since she is overproducing, you get to take some for yourself
mysunwolf - four acres and some sheep
Baymule
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Beautiful lamb!
Goat Whisperer
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Congrats!
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mysunwolf
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We have two more from Dora as of this morning, will post an update later today.
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mysunwolf
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We went out to check the ewes around 7 this morning and found two little lambs in the barn! It was 22 degrees F so we spent a few hours getting both babies to nurse from their mom in turns, plus toweling them dry.
Dora is trying to reject the white one for quite a few reasons.
1) She believes she is only supposed to have one lamb at a time.
2) She has never had a white lamb before and all of the lambs that were "not hers" have been white in the past.
3) The white one was weaker so I had to towel it off quite a bit more as it couldn't suck enough milk down to stay warm, then it didn't smell as good to mom.
Dora ate part of the placenta already, I've been rubbing the remaining pieces all over the lamb every few hours to encourage her to accept it. She is doing much better accepting it as of the last hour. She has been cleaning both of them very well and has good milk. So far no sign of mastitis this year
Both of the lambs are girls which is funny because we were hoping for one ram out of Dora. Now it's up to Mocha to produce a ram.
Charcoal is still not cleaning her lamb at all
There was orangey/yellow poop everywhere on that thing when I checked on them this morning. I pulled the worst of it off her butt and wiped up a good deal, but that stuff is sticky. And Charcoal is producing so much milk that the baby has even runnier poop from the overly-rich colostrum. Despite that, her lamb is already growing, jumping around, and just being a healthy little critter.
Dora is trying to reject the white one for quite a few reasons.
1) She believes she is only supposed to have one lamb at a time.
2) She has never had a white lamb before and all of the lambs that were "not hers" have been white in the past.
3) The white one was weaker so I had to towel it off quite a bit more as it couldn't suck enough milk down to stay warm, then it didn't smell as good to mom.
Dora ate part of the placenta already, I've been rubbing the remaining pieces all over the lamb every few hours to encourage her to accept it. She is doing much better accepting it as of the last hour. She has been cleaning both of them very well and has good milk. So far no sign of mastitis this year
Both of the lambs are girls which is funny because we were hoping for one ram out of Dora. Now it's up to Mocha to produce a ram.
Charcoal is still not cleaning her lamb at all
There was orangey/yellow poop everywhere on that thing when I checked on them this morning. I pulled the worst of it off her butt and wiped up a good deal, but that stuff is sticky. And Charcoal is producing so much milk that the baby has even runnier poop from the overly-rich colostrum. Despite that, her lamb is already growing, jumping around, and just being a healthy little critter.
Baymule
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Adorable babies! That new lamb poop is some gooey stuff ain't it? Congrats on the new lambs!
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mysunwolf
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Tried to get some better photos of the lambs but the barn lighting is really not cooperating. Hopefully we will get them out to the barnyard this week and I'll be able to get some nicer shots.
Charcoal's lamb is growing extremely well already.
The flock without babies is very interested in Dora and her situation.
Dora and her lambs are doing pretty good. The white one now has a bit of discharge from her eyes--my guess is it's a bacterial infection from me repeatedly smearing placenta all over her body yesterday to get mom to accept her. I've got some antibacterial ointment I'm going to try. She is not producing a whole lot of milk, but it is enough so far.
Charcoal's lamb is growing extremely well already.
The flock without babies is very interested in Dora and her situation.
Dora and her lambs are doing pretty good. The white one now has a bit of discharge from her eyes--my guess is it's a bacterial infection from me repeatedly smearing placenta all over her body yesterday to get mom to accept her. I've got some antibacterial ointment I'm going to try. She is not producing a whole lot of milk, but it is enough so far.
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So cute! Im anxiously awaiting the arrival of Rosie's lambs. I dont she can hold out much longer.
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mysunwolf
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I have been following the thread and honestly can't believe she has not lambed yet!! I'm still waiting on one of my ewe lambs, her name is Mocha and I think her and Rosie are at a similar stage. I've got Mocha's due date as March 9th. This is her from January.
This is a terrible photo of her udder from a few weeks back.
It doesn't look much different now, but with FFs I always have a hard time.
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mysunwolf
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We banded tails, gave Dora's lambs tetanus antitoxin and BoSe, and integrated Charcoal into the main flock today. Dora's white lamb is now developing soremouth ![:\](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/side.png "side :\")
This poor creature is a wreck... I can't tell if she almost rejected it because she knows its immune system is not up to snuff, or if its immune system is not great because it didn't get as much colostrum in the first 24hrs. But Dora has fully accepted it as her lamb now, so we at least dodged that bullet!
Ginger is acting like a beached whale. We're still watching her for signs of toxemia, drenched her with a little calcium and PG just in case, but so far she is doing very well she is just HUGE
No progress at all on little Mocha.
When we let everyone out to graze, Charcoal's lamb learned about the electric net straight off. Then she started nibbling grass with her mother... at 4 days old.
After I let them back in, Charcoal's lamb started bouncing around and annoying Grandma Ginger Wish I had gotten a photo of that.
This poor creature is a wreck... I can't tell if she almost rejected it because she knows its immune system is not up to snuff, or if its immune system is not great because it didn't get as much colostrum in the first 24hrs. But Dora has fully accepted it as her lamb now, so we at least dodged that bullet!Ginger is acting like a beached whale. We're still watching her for signs of toxemia, drenched her with a little calcium and PG just in case, but so far she is doing very well she is just HUGE
No progress at all on little Mocha.
When we let everyone out to graze, Charcoal's lamb learned about the electric net straight off. Then she started nibbling grass with her mother... at 4 days old.
After I let them back in, Charcoal's lamb started bouncing around and annoying Grandma Ginger
Wish I had gotten a photo of that.
