Baymule
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Your barn is fancier than the double wide I live in. Much bigger too! It’s fabtabulous! I want a barn like yours when I grow up!
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SageHill
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The seal brown ewe lamb - thinking keeper.
Of course she smiles for the camera.
Silver's wee ewe lamb - a whopping 6lbs
(her twin brother, black is 14 lbs). Not a week old yet.
Of course she smiles for the camera.
Silver's wee ewe lamb - a whopping 6lbs
(her twin brother, black is 14 lbs). Not a week old yet.
Baymule
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You have a colorful crop of lambs!
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SageHill
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The Silver saga continues. Witch. Lambs go to nurse and she turns and walks away. GRRR .. BUT -- If I hold her all is fine. Of course she's getting wise to me trying to get the halter on, but I've got other tricks up my sleeve - put her in a chute to get that on - but a crook to catch will be next if I need to. The littlest one gained from 6.0# to 7.0# this morning. The big guy, he's on his own and gaining.
Are you going to keep her? It's sad she's not wanting to let them nurse.
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SageHill
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It's a coin toss now. I may keep her for one more go around. If just haltering her is what's needed I can do that. This is her third lambing - first she had to tied but after a couple days she was fine (not unusual for a first timer), second time she was fine, and now this time not so great. Have to decide if her lambs are worth it - first two were singles and grew well. Nice size, kept one and she's a good mother. This time around her first twins, the ram is huge the ewe tiny (hmm should I call her a bonus? ).
Mini Horses
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They all tend to walk when they're "empty". Obviously they are nursing BUT that ram lamb is pretty much taking more than half! Plus may be taking the teat from ewe lamb if under their together. That's really what you must watch -- and you obviously are by weighing. 
Same with trips, first come/first served. Then slower or smaller get pushed away 
it's a real effort. I have a twin being special fed -- not a bottle -- but was smaller from day one & still having a go of it. So 
Same with trips, first come/first served. Then slower or smaller get pushed away it's a real effort. I have a twin being special fed -- not a bottle -- but was smaller from day one & still having a go of it. So - Thread starter
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SageHill
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So true they do walk when they are on E. But this one, not so. She's just being a putz. I've actually checked - squirt easily 8 ft. When I put all of them together the lambs look at all the ewes as walking breakfast, lunch and dinner bars. And - the ewes put up with it. Every time without fail when new lambs are added to the flock there's a nice gain of weight the next day.They all tend to walk when they're "empty". Obviously they are nursing BUT that ram lamb is pretty much taking more than half! Plus may be taking the teat from ewe lamb if under their together. That's really what you must watch -- and you obviously are by weighing.
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Sell her when you get the lambs big enough... keep this ewe lamb... Small now but she will grow... If she learns to steal off someone else, more power to her...
1 out of 3 times being a good mother is a big NO in my book... It would be the end of a cow if it were mine...
1 out of 3 times being a good mother is a big NO in my book... It would be the end of a cow if it were mine...
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SageHill
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Yeah - I've been sitting on that fence -- you're right - and the little boot push I needed!!
