That's exciting!
Yes, especially because I know she's a good mama. She's taking great care of them. I'll try to get pics later.That's exciting!
It's going to be a play by ear kinda situation. I'm hoping if I do that several times today that she will get tolerant and realize that's what she needs to do.
) to feed a bunch of lambs. Plus it gets expensive.
I hope she starts letting them nurse. I don't have sheep, but it does sound like she might not be feeling well. Is she eating?Yes, especially because I know she's a good mama. She's taking great care of them. I'll try to get pics later.
I tried tying up BB, including one hind leg, so she wouldn't be able to move away when her lambs tried to nurse. I ended up untying her because even after being tied up for several minutes, she was flailing and thrashing. I could just see her killing or harming the lambs. So untied her and backed her in a corner and brought a lamb over. She allowed him to nurse for about 30 secs after I backed away.
I did give them more colostrum as well. No idea if they've nursed while I was gone but it won't harm anything except the wallet.
We will have to sell them and probably butcher the ewe if we can't get this to work. Has anyone ever had a first timer act properly if bred another time?
All bottle babies have to be sold since I'm traveling next month. Dh simply has no time (or patience
Also BB kept trying to lie down. Not sure if she's not feeling well or if it's her way to keep her udder away from the lambs. It doesn't look like she's touched her water, either. I even gave her a separate water with molasses and she wouldn't drink. She's probably also stressed from being apart from the flock, but she's not calling to them anymore.
I agree she may not feel well... I just hope it's from a general overall feeling of having just given birth and not from being sick. Not drinking is not good.... if only for milk production. She did eat quite a bit of grain yesterday right after she had the babies, But I haven't seen her eat since. She may have eaten some hay but I can't tell. I did just bring her a full tray of grass and clover i ripped up. She wouldn't come near it at least while I was there. At the moment she's acting pretty protective of the babies.
That's good news.I agree she may not feel well... I just hope it's from a general overall feeling of having just given birth and not from being sick. Not drinking is not good.... if only for milk production. She did eat quite a bit of grain yesterday right after she had the babies, But I haven't seen her eat since. She may have eaten some hay but I can't tell. I did just bring her a full tray of grass and clover i ripped up. She wouldn't come near it at least while I was there. At the moment she's acting pretty protective of the babies.
When I brought her the grass, I snuck up very quietly and was pleased to see she was letting the babies nurse.
Hopefully she's also drinking, even though you haven't seen it.
Yup. As a first timer "Silver" needed to be tied and pinned to let her lamb nurse. Second time around she was good. Third an last time she had to be held. PITA. Took her to the auction.
