First time lambing question!

[d farm]

Hi IS a big boy...have you weighed him?

Congrats. to you and momma.

No, with everything thing went on, we haven't try to do that when I go home at lunch or after work! My dad is sheep sitting!

 

[d farm]

Grats on a healthy birth. Sorry about the vet bill for prolapse...

If we can save momma and baby, vet bill will be ok, she is a pet for me(I think she thinks she is a dog), my daughter's retired 4H show lamb!

 

[d farm]

One more ewe to go, hope she has easier time! But during this birth you would have thought she was the guard dog, she did not like me going to check on the ewe in labor, followed me step for step!

 

[Sheepshape]

No, with everything thing went on, we haven't try to do that when I go home at lunch or after work!

If you don't have the right sort of scales, take out your bathroom scales and weigh yourself holding lamb and then yourself. Not super-accurate, but good enough!

 

[luvmypets]

Grats on your first lamb!

 

[Girlies' Mum]

Congratulations to Mum and baby! They are both beautiful

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Hope both do well! Sorry for the prolapse!

 

[Alaskan]

Oh, don’t think I have told it before daddy is a Babydoll Southdown, momma is Suffolk!

Fantastic breeds for nice wool! Suffolk wool is naturally washable. Makes good socks.

Haven't ever had the pleasure of feeling baby doll wool, but south down wool is also nice..... similar to Suffolk if my brain isn't scrambling on me.

The Baby doll sheep are super cute.

Does the prolapse mean that she shouldn't be bred again?

 

[d farm]

Fantastic breeds for nice wool! Suffolk wool is naturally washable. Makes good socks.

Haven't ever had the pleasure of feeling baby doll wool, but south down wool is also nice..... similar to Suffolk if my brain isn't scrambling on me.

The Baby doll sheep are super cute.

Does the prolapse mean that she shouldn't be bred again?

The way the vet talked this morning, is that if she pulled thru and made full recovery she should be ok to breed again. Going to do some research and talk with him more about it at a later time, get stitches out in a week. She is a two year old ewe and this was her first time lambing, never bred her before. She is my daughter's retired 4H show lamb, so as much as we worked with her to halter break her and get her show ready, is really a big pet!

 

[d farm]

If you don't have the right sort of scales, take out your bathroom scales and weigh yourself holding lamb and then yourself. Not super-accurate, but good enough!

He weighed 12.6lbs