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  1. Mindi

    Trying to save baby lamb

    I've been there myself trying to save lambs, but sometimes it doesn't matter what you do, they don't make it. Sometimes I think the ewe knows there's something wrong with the baby, so they just abandon it. I've had that with some of our cats. Happy to know there's people like you in this...
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    Keeping ewe lambs for breeding, yet keeping their dad...

    Has anyone kept a ram for a few years for breeding and keep the ewe lambs born to that herd? I would never breed my lambs to their dad, but to up my flock I would love to keep my 3 ewe lambs for future breeding. I guess the problem kinda is I think the hubs is somewhat attached to our ram...
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    Dairy Heifer: To Raise, or Not to Raise?

    We raise bucket calves, in fact have 46 right now that we get bull calves from a Wisconsin dairy and occasionally get a heifer in the mix that we feed out until slaughter. We rarely if at all have any noise or any problems really with them as they mature. I know that the heifers we do get are...
  4. Mindi

    Pregnant Ewe??

    Lily still hasn't lambed :hu I had a fellow shepherd with more experience come look at her and she thought she might be but we all agree she is pretty overweight. So today hubs and I gave her a pedicure and moved her back out with the rest of the herd. If she doesn't lamb by mid August...
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    Pregnant Ewe??

    This is my ewe girl Lily in her Big Bird nest since it reminds me of the one Big Bird had in the old Sesame Street Books. We think she's pregnant because she is so big, but she barely has an udder and the others have lambed already. Last year she was the first one to lamb, had twins and...
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    Lop-sided boob btwn my ewe's legs...

    Thanks everyone! Good news! Checked Marley this afternoon and her little ewe lamb was going to town on the right side, so now mom looks deflated and more proportional :thumbsup She had a lamb on both sides and she looked nice and relaxed chewing her cud.
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    Lop-sided boob btwn my ewe's legs...

    Marley and her twins! The little guy nursing had a de-gloving accident with his tail (good thing he's not keeping it). Hopefully with meds and being banded it will heal soon. My question is that their mom's udder is very full on one side yet not the other. She kinda pushed them away when they...
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    Tail troulbe with our ram lamb

    Our ewe Marley had twins early Monday night and all came out well. Later that night when we went out to iodine them, ect., hubs found our little ram lamb's tail has basically been skinned with the outer skin still hanging off the end of his tail. Husband thinks she cleaned him too vigorously...
  9. Mindi

    Getting your ewe up to nurse

    She got up and has accepted them. She is pretty much still a first time mom even though she lost twins last year, but that was right off the bat. Not sure what happened. We also found the ram lamb with most of his tail skinned?? Hubs thinks she cleaned him too much, but I'm thinking mom may...
  10. Mindi

    Getting your ewe up to nurse

    Any ideas on how to get a stubborn ewe up to nurse her babies? She was up this morning, but now she's just being a butt. :barnie Hoping when I go back out to the barn she will be up! Thanks
  11. Mindi

    Lambing close to due date

    She had boy/girl twins last night :weee
  12. Mindi

    Lambing close to due date

    I think today may be the day!! :pop
  13. Mindi

    Lambing close to due date

    I have 2 ewes I'm waiting on to deliver and according to the lambing calendar, tomorrow is the latest date to deliver their lambs and so far nothing, except my ewe Marley having a little bit of discharge on and off the last few days. She has also been what I think is some "contracting" and...
  14. Mindi

    Just had to share...

    Dad is either Horned Dorset or Polypay, but we believe mom is a Polypay. Either way, I love all my lambies no matter what they look like :love
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    Waiting....

    Just 2, just about 100% they will both of at least twins since they are so big. May 9th is the latest date, it will be my luck they'll have them on Mother's Day, LOL!
  16. Mindi

    Waiting....

    Am I the only one half way through lambing and making daily and nightly trips to the barn just waiting and hoping and wishing for new lambs to appear so I can continue to maybe have a decent night's sleep? With every moan and grown of my 2 yr old ewes being so big and so uncomfortable, I'm sure...
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    Just had to share...

    Thanks! He has a twin sister Sparkles, but not sure where she was at that moment. :hu
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    Just had to share...

    This is Elsa and since my 6 yr old is currently into Ghostbusters...little Egon :)
  19. Mindi

    First time mom & ewe lamb not clicking on nursing...

    Hubs just called and she's FINALLY up and nursing...so it clicked!!:weee
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