Christmas Eve I finished 2 more jugs. Good thing I did, Sunday I had 6 lambs born!
Look at this spotty one!
One new momma, Dusty, had twins. It happens sometimes that the second lamb born gets all the attention, cleaned up, nudged to get up and nurse, while the first born is forgotten about. I got home from church and saw Dusty with lambs. I changed clothes and went to investigate. One was up, doing good, what looked to be the firstborn was wrapped in afterbirth, cold, limp, barely alive, fading fast.
I took her in the house, wrapped her in a towel, sat in my recliner holding her and put a heating pad on her. I dribbled a few drops of colostrum in her mouth, but she was pretty unresponsive.
I held her all afternoon until I had to go do evening chores. I came back in expecting to find her dead. I picked her up and she BAA’ed! I got some more colostrum in n her, she perked up and just kept getting better. I stayed up until 11 to make sure she had a full tummy. She was up at 5;00 AM! Yelling for a bottle! She made a comeback from the brink of death. She is doing great.
Carson licks the milk off her face.
She snuggles up to him, so cute!
This is for
@flowerbug this picture shows a scrapie tag on the lamb’s ear and a grown up tag on the ewe. That tag number is on her registration paper.
thank you for filling that in.
