(Tiny) 2026 lambing

[Baymule]

I hope she has twin ewes for you!

 

[MMGardens]

That would be awesome!!

That rude girl is 11 days past her due date now her udder went from rock hard to looking soft and deflated. So, now I’m waiting for another big change before I’m expecting anything. Maybe she’s waiting on this full moon / eclipse since her mama had her on a full moon. Here’s hoping!!

I hope she has twin ewes for you!

 

[MMGardens]

I do wish she would hurry, as I only have one birthing suite at this point, and I have a goat due 3-17 that I’ve had to pen elsewhere so I could feed her up away from everybody else at meal times

 

[Mini Horses]

DON'T tell her this .

 

[MMGardens]

DON'T tell her this .

so true. Definitely will not! Just gonna sit here crossing my fingers!!

 

[MMGardens]

In other news, look how precious this little gulf coast native ram lamb is I just picked up

 

[Baymule]

I mage jugs out of pallets, with a half of hog panels for a yard. They are not in a barn, so a pallet went on top and I put tin over that.

 

[Baymule]

These are the jugs I built with free pallets, the tin and hog panels I already had. It was a good way to put up jugs fast!

 

[Tacobug52]

Having already had a tiny flock of sheep, I extra cut my lambing season short this year because I sold 3 of my bred ewes and bought 2 young ewes of a breed I wanted (gulf coast native), which only left me with two potentially bred ewes for this year and a flock of 6.

Dolly was my first to lamb. When I got the mama (dolly) she looked terrible and so malnourished. I posted her picture here before asking for advice about a year ago. She’s gone from 45 lbs at 1 year old to now being 100 lbs and 2.5 years old and looks like totally normal sheep. Previously, when dolly was only 50 lbs my vet evaluated her and told me never to breed her because she would likely need a c section. After she gained all this weight and became a regular statured sheep, I really felt like she could do it, and she has a lot of the qualities I was looking to breed into my sheep, so my vet counciled to breed her to a fine boned ram. I was crossing my fingers for twins in hopes that the babies would be smaller. I was also so nervous she wouldn’t be a good mom, because the home I got her from had gotten her as a bottle baby from the stock yard and I didn’t have any info on the circumstances of her birth or why she was a bottle baby. I’ve been on lamb watch with her now for about a week, but this morning I woke up and went out at 5 to check on her, and her big old baby was already cleaned off and nursing and placenta already delivered. I’m so so proud of her. She’s been such a good mama.

Here’s her sweet ewe lamb, 9 lbs 3 oz. I cannot believe she had that baby all by herself with no issue, but I’m so happy she’s proven our fears unwarranted. You go girl


Next up is hopefully my first lamb from last year, Apolla. She should be due in around 2 months

Awww, got to love the spring time with the babies, super cute

 

[MMGardens]

Those look great baymule! That’s essentially what I’ve had to do, but today 3 weeks late she finally gave me a baby AND it was in the middle of the day so I got to watch for the first time!!!

One little ewe lamb

I fed her around 8-9 this morning and did think she seemed closer today, def didn’t think hours away

I went over and looked at her at 10:40 and thought hmm she looks like she’s in labor, walked away for 5 min, came back and she was laid down pushing, lamb out at 11:12


I think the second pic looks like mama is kissing her

We’ve named her Winnie (full name winter as a nod to the late grandmother ewe, summer)