Ewetopia_Acres
Chillin' with the herd
Its a little late but in March we had our first sets of lambs born on the farm. A week before Mabel had her lambs, she had a uterine prolapse, but the vet came out and stitched her up. On March 2nd at 6:00am, she had twin ewe lambs, Adelaide and Primrose, without any problems. And what was beter? It was a snow day so everyone was home to help her and the lambs out. Next Gertie, my sisters ewe, had hers on March 13(11:35pm) and the 14th(12:01am). She also had 2 ewe lambs, Lillian and Dorothy. These lambs were so tiny we thought there was a third, because Gertie is the big boned ewe, but she ended up just having twins. Lillian took a while to get going, because she was so tiny. We thought we were going to have a bottle lamb, but Gertie ended up being a great mom!This was during March Break so we were there as well.
Last year we bought these 2 ewes, Mabel and Gertie. They came home very skinny and the person we bought these ewes from said they were bred a month before we brought them home. We waited all summer for lambs, but they ended up not being bred.( Being our first sheep we did not know what to look for) We contacted the young man we got them from to see if any of his had lambed and only 1 out of his 15 had. That summer the ram that suposedly bred them had died of a heart attack, so he was not doing his job. He had just bought a yearling dorset ram with austrailian lines and he let us bring the girls back for two months, from the start of october to the end of Novemeber for free, because he felt bad. And they ended up being bred. It may have turned out better that way because we were able to bond with them. He had 20 lambing and had 19 boys and 5 girls. And when we lambed we ended up with 4 girls from 2 ewes. It worked out well for us because the deal i had made with my dad was that we kept the ewe lambs and sell the rams/wethers to build up our flock.
Tommorow Mabel's babies turn 8 weeks and yesterday Gerties babies turned 6 weeks. They are the sweetest things. When i sit in the pasture they all come running up and fight over who gets to sit in my lapI picked Adelaide, the biggest and friendliest to be my 4-h project. I am so happy everything turned out good lambing!
I will now try to figure out how to post pictures
Last year we bought these 2 ewes, Mabel and Gertie. They came home very skinny and the person we bought these ewes from said they were bred a month before we brought them home. We waited all summer for lambs, but they ended up not being bred.( Being our first sheep we did not know what to look for) We contacted the young man we got them from to see if any of his had lambed and only 1 out of his 15 had. That summer the ram that suposedly bred them had died of a heart attack, so he was not doing his job. He had just bought a yearling dorset ram with austrailian lines and he let us bring the girls back for two months, from the start of october to the end of Novemeber for free, because he felt bad. And they ended up being bred. It may have turned out better that way because we were able to bond with them. He had 20 lambing and had 19 boys and 5 girls. And when we lambed we ended up with 4 girls from 2 ewes. It worked out well for us because the deal i had made with my dad was that we kept the ewe lambs and sell the rams/wethers to build up our flock.
Tommorow Mabel's babies turn 8 weeks and yesterday Gerties babies turned 6 weeks. They are the sweetest things. When i sit in the pasture they all come running up and fight over who gets to sit in my lapI picked Adelaide, the biggest and friendliest to be my 4-h project. I am so happy everything turned out good lambing!
I will now try to figure out how to post pictures