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  1. BoPeep75

    Is this a miscarriage?

    No it came out on its own and she has been fine, eating well and running around. My husband called a sheep farmer he knew, and he said that sometime a ewe sheds her lining like that. I had never heard that before or seen it, but it’s very possible I just missed my girls doing it. He...
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    Is this a miscarriage?

    Well this is the problem I was not even aware she was pregnant. I knew our others were but how they managed to mate I don’t know, she wasn’t really turned out with him for more than a few moments. I guess it was all it took. I have got her confined now. She seems fine, moving around and...
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    Is this a miscarriage?

    Can anyone tell me if this is a miscarriage? This is not a great picture but it’s the best that I could get. It looks like an umbilical cord almost. Several of our lambs have given birth but this ewe did not look very big at all, and I did not think she was pregnant. She’s just now barely over...
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    Inbreeding sheep

    That is very kind! But I think I’m pretty out-of-the-way in Tennessee. And don’t worry about the “book” - I thought it was awesome! :-). Sounds like you have a well run operation going. We don’t have so many sheep farmers here that studding is a big thing for sheep, horses and cows yes. It...
  5. BoPeep75

    Thank you :-) that’s my bottle baby buddy. I just wanna smoosh his face. 😍

    Thank you :-) that’s my bottle baby buddy. I just wanna smoosh his face. 😍
  6. BoPeep75

    Inbreeding sheep

    Excellent point. If “crazy as a bedbug” is a inheritable trait, I’ve got one that I would love to cull when I have a replacement.
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    Inbreeding sheep

    Thank you. Those were my thoughts as well, since it’s only for food. I just didn’t want to think about eating anything that was going to come out with six legs and cross eyed. Lol i’m only kidding I know it won’t actually show anything like that but I guess I just wanted to hear more ppl say...
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    Inbreeding sheep

    Oh I have no qualms about eating them. I just wondered about breeding a sire to his daughter. It’s more an emotional icky thing for me thinking about inbreeding, but we definitely eat the sheep. Yum! 😁
  9. BoPeep75

    Inbreeding sheep

    Recently I have been reading articles on sheep inbreeding. We have recently had several lambs, all of which happened to be male. Our last sheep is due and if she has a female, I would like to keep her purely for breeding sheep that we will eat. What are your thoughts on this? It is always...
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    Diarrhea, bloat, worms spotted on kids

    I too thought that he would ask for a sample or at least come out and look for himself. Most people that I read about prefer oral dewormers although I’ve heard that this is supposed to be pretty good stuff. I think I read that it was originally used for cattle and swine. I was thinking about...
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    Diarrhea, bloat, worms spotted on kids

    So we are relatively new to owning goats, and about four of our littlest ones are showing definite signs of parasite infestation, one of them is particularly huge for her little size and I have seen white worms coming out of her rectum today. The vet we used to use is no longer treating farm...
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    How long can I wait before cutting lamb cord?

    😁 I don’t consider that weird though. We have a university in town that seems to draw some real whackadoos so I feel like our per capita of oddballs is a little skewed. Glad your hog is feeling better!
  13. BoPeep75

    How long can I wait before cutting lamb cord?

    Thank you, I actually did manage to grab it today. My husband came home and helped me keep an eye on the mother who looked like she wanted to charge me. I don’t know if that happens a lot with other sheep, but typically it does not with the females I have seen, granted that’s only been a dozen...
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    How long can I wait before cutting lamb cord?

    Our second female has given birth to a lamb today. We had issues with our first ewe rejecting one of hers, so I really don’t want to interrupt the bonding process. She did not look like she was quite ready to go so yesterday so she was out in the field when she had it. Which means we’re going...
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    9 month old ram butting newborns

    Thank you for the timeline! I’ve been looking for someone to give me this kind of year at a glance. When you said that the mom’s have one lamb for the summer, were you meaning that they typically all have at least one female lamb to continue nursing through the summer? (Since the boy lambs are...
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    9 month old ram butting newborns

    Very good advice I think. We have Katahdin sheep, and I was actually thinking of getting two Nigerian dwarf goats. If this ewe does this again I will cull her. I’m hopeful she won’t though as she has a history of always accepting her twins in the past. I’m hoping this was just a fluke with...
  17. BoPeep75

    Is this pinkeye?

    Thanks everyone! We cleaned it up and over the next day or two it got right as rain.
  18. BoPeep75

    Baby wheezing post feed.

    I don’t know much about sheep as I’ve just started, but I’m a nurse for humans 😊 and if it’s not too much to be absorbed and grow bacteria, small amounts of aspirated fluids can go away on their own ... again this is in humans. I would assume same for animals. Watch for trouble breathing...
  19. BoPeep75

    Is this pinkeye?

    Very new shepherdess here. My bottle fed ram is seven days old today, and last night my daughter noticed a little something on his face when she fed him, but didn’t think anything of it. When I took the 4 AM feeding, I noticed his right eye was kind of runny. When I got back to the house I...
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    9 month old ram butting newborns

    Yes they are four days old today, and at the end of the second day my husband and I thought we would try the headgate kind of situation, so he made one and attached it in the barn stall and it did not go well. We tried to tie the rest of her down, and she bucked like she’d gone rabid. Later...
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