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Well let me update! What seemed to be a long string of something I assume was the placenta? It wasnt anything like what looked like a placenta but it was discharged. Lamb is nursing great, and seems healthy and energetic- mama is being good and smelling her every 20 seconds haha! Like a good...

That's great! We're considering having 2 herds now rotating out from one into the other so we need to find someone with American Blackbellies that are NOT from our herd bloodlines. Where did you get your sheep from? Would you be interested in selling the ewe, maybe we can do a trade? haha! Your...

@Samantha drawz yes this is her first lamb, she is about a year old. And you are right- I know I even drank red raspberry leaf tea in my pregnancy to help with uterine spasms. I think I might have some raspberry plants growing but my goat might have eaten them all haha!

So from what Ive been able to gather it's said 1-8 hours? Some people differ on a shot of oxytocin or just injecting antibiotics until they expel the afterbirth- Im wondering if there is a natural herb or whatnot you can give them instead? I have crampbark that I used for my own deliveries but...

We have blackbellies and Ramsies has always been very good with the ewes letting them eat before him. He did get aggressive this morning and tried to ram my husband as he was moving our Clewepatra (great names huh) into the lambing pen. He seems really interested in whats going on and can nuzzle...

Okay, there was quite a bulging sac after the lamb was born so I wasnt sure if that was the beginning of #2? I posted the image in another thread. I went back out and she is up and having what seems like sparatic contractions that makes her make a belching sort of sound, but Im not seeing...

So we had our first American Blackbelly lamb this morning and I had some questions: 1.) How long before the afterbirth should pass for 1? 2.) How do you know if there is a twin in there, and how long inbetween the birth of #2? 3.) If the afterbirth doesn't seem to be coming along, what do you...

Thanks! Im still trying to figure out how long before they pass the afterbirth? Im not sure if she has a twin in there but I am not sure what to do if she doesnt pass the afterbirth in a good period of time? Ive had 8 kids myself and things are a little different for me! HAHA!

So how long should we wait until the afterbirth passed? We just had our first lamb and we arent sure if she has a twin in there too. There was a bulging amniotic sac that was small after she was born. This was the sac after it was born and it ruptured.

Im so excited- we had our first American Blackbelly lamb born around an hour ago! She hasn't passed her afterbirth so Im looking up information on it... but some pictures!

Just had our first lamb!

Do you still have your herd? We're in Gaston and we have American Blackbellies. We just lambed our first baby about an hour ago! I'm actually looking up on the afterbirth info. We think she's a little ewe. And blackbelly... is AMAZINGLY tasty! We slaughtered our wethers for Easter and they were...