2019, Waiting on lambs!

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Put up the temp fence to let ewes grazy it. Horses broke it, not the geese.
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So, my experiment about the neighbor's obsessive weed spraying causing lamb deaths & deformities seem to be true.

Last year, I let the ewes on the new land freely & had lambs die, be sickly or deformed. There is a permanent, offset fence by 8ft, that I had put up to keep my animals in. But 8ft is not enough, seems the wind blew it far & wide.

This year, I put up a temporary fence to keep the ewes away from that area until late in winter. Zero problems.

The only two I lost were; one was too large & got stuck, the other developed pneumonia immediately after birth.

So, I will be fencing off the area every autumn from now on. :mad::th:hit


In other news, all ewes have lambed during the day this year. Yay!


And one of Guinevere's rams will be a wether tomorrow.
 
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o_O

So, a lamb kept yelling its head off in the dark.

I go out to see what's up.

Juliana is on the other side of the fence, the one by the road that I added because the dogs were escaping from the old fence....


Yeah. No idea how she got on that side....


Her being a relatively dainty 2yr old, I was able to pick her up and toss her back over the fence!

*phew*
 

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I’m sorry about your neighbor poisoning your lambs last year! That’s awful! :somad

Wonder how Juliana got out o_O
 

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I need to order more ear tags.

And I need to find a different way to mark ram lambs so that I don't waste tags on meat lambs. Since I won't use a butcher, the tag is unnecessary.

QR rams should probably be on the butcher list immediately unless someone pre reserves one specifically.

I'm thinking white wool spray for the blacks & any other color for whites.




Vanilla, Tatiana and their lambs went out today!
I only tagged the ewe lambs, since the rams might become dinner instead of selling.
 
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