Baymule’s 2026 Lambing + December 2025

Congrats on the new lambs!!! I love lambing. Dang - should put the ram in with the girls soon if I want more!

YOU actually made me go out and look at our pallets. One is missing two slats; the other two are OK, but are chipped up a bit. Yes, pallet envy for sure!!!!!

I buy my protein tubs 4 at a time...4 to a pallet.... they are loaded on the truck on a pallet... WAH LAH, new pallet (or very good one) everytime...

farmerjan said:

I buy my protein tubs 4 at a time...4 to a pallet.... they are loaded on the truck on a pallet... WAH LAH, new pallet (or very good one) everytime...

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Smart Lady!

fuzzi said:

Smart Lady!

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Maybe smart, maybe lazy !!!! They are shrink wrapped on the pallet... so won't slide all over the back of the truck.... this way I run one strap over it to keep it on the truck since it is a flat bed with 4 inch "sides".... nothing across the back....
Sadly, no better price for 4 at a time... but much easier to take a knife and cut the plastic wrap and pull, roll the tubs off at the pasture...(200+ lbs cooked protein/molasses tubs are HEAVY). I have needed some new pallets at the pasture to "block some holes in the board fence that has not been fixed yet. and we use one where they come out the newly rebuilt door as it fits against the water trough and extends the length of the gate where they are "directed" into the trailer as opposed to getting back into the little lot... It is easier to load them there at snyder's directly out of the barn into the trailer than to try to get them crowded into a smaller section...

Jugs. I fixed another one on the end for Dusty and her twins. One of them isn’t going to make it. She doesn’t have the suck reflex. I brought her in. Wrapped her in a towel, held her and put a heating pad on her. I’ve dribbled colostrum in her mouth, a drop at a time, but no improvement and no response. I hate to lose babies.



Came home from church and Nova was pushing a baby out. She had twins, boy and girl, big healthy babies. I scrapie tagged them and put them in a Quonset hut in the night pen. She moved them to the hoop shelter. They are doing fine.



Total count 18 minus one

I haven’t tagged or recorded boy or girl for the jugged lambs yet.

Last time I learned the old style math... 18 minus one is 17... ????

Sorry for the one not responding. Sometimes they just don't make it no matter what we do.

I thought she was dead. I had to put her in the laundry basket and go do chores. I came back in, figuring on a funeral and she popped up crying. She downed an ounce of colostrum, walked around. I got out the dog kennel, potty pads and got her all fixed up. Went to store for a gallon of milk, her mouth is cold again. She’s bundled up in a towel, with the heating pad, in my lap. She’s trying. I’ll give her my best I can do.