Baymule’s Farm

[baymule]

Sandy had twins New Year's Day! A ewe with a few spots and freckles and a ram that is take my breath away gorgeous. Best part is, they are 87.5% and eligible for full registration at a year old. I’ve never kept a percentage ram, preferring to keep a ram from both parents fully registered, BUT I’m keeping this one!

I took the divider out between Ariel and Beauty, making a “group home” and lured Sandy in the pen with her babies.

Sandy and the ewe lamb

The ram! Tricolored, gorgeous! He has the “frosting” now I have to watch the “cake” bake. He’ll have to have the conformation to match the color, to be a flock sire.

The group home. I brought Tinkerbelle outside while I worked, she is laying next to the blue bucket. It took awhile, but the ewes figured out she didn’t belong to any of them and they all started beating her up. I had to grab her, I put her in an empty jug.

Lamb count 22

 

[baymule]

Pancake had twins the evening of New Year's Day. I was watering the sheep and She had a lamb, and nose and toes were sticking out for the next lamb. I put up all the ewes, then let 2 ewes with the oldest 3 lambs out of the jugs and lured Pancake into one of the jugs. It wasn't long before she had the second lamb. I still haven't got them ear tagged or even seen what sex they are. I've got to do that today!

Lamb count 24

I thought for sure that Easter would lamb on New Year’s Eve but she lambed on the wee hours January 2 morning. She had a black and white ram and solid black ewe, they are 75%. It was a full moon last night and tonight so I think I’ll name the ewe Moon.

I got them scrapie ear tagged.

Lamb count 26.

10 more ewes to lamb.

16 ewes have lambed, 4 of them had singles.

 

[flowerbug]

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It took awhile, but the ewes figured out she didn’t belong to any of them and they all started beating her up. I had to grab her, I put her in an empty jug.

if you put her in a jug with her Momma won't she eventually figure it out?

 

[Dahlia]

Pancake had twins the evening of New Year's Day. I was watering the sheep and She had a lamb, and nose and toes were sticking out for the next lamb. I put up all the ewes, then let 2 ewes with the oldest 3 lambs out of the jugs and lured Pancake into one of the jugs. It wasn't long before she had the second lamb. I still haven't got them ear tagged or even seen what sex they are. I've got to do that today!

Lamb count 24

I thought for sure that Easter would lamb on New Year’s Eve but she lambed on the wee hours January 2 morning. She had a black and white ram and solid black ewe, they are 75%. It was a full moon last night and tonight so I think I’ll name the ewe Moon.

I got them scrapie ear tagged.

Lamb count 26.

10 more ewes to lamb.

16 ewes have lambed, 4 of them had singles.

I love all of your adorable lambs!

 

[baymule]

if you put her in a jug with her Momma won't she eventually figure it out?

Nope. Ewes know their lambs from others by sniffing their butt. Momma's milk goes in one end, comes out the other end. Ewes know the smell of their own milk. Tinkerbelle has been on a bottle and it makes her smell different, so momma doesn't recognize her. Ewes will attack other lambs, butt them away or kick them. Their milk is for their babies. The 3 ewes in the group pen, each has twins, but there is enough room for them to move freely and run to their own momma.

 

[flowerbug]

Nope. Ewes know their lambs from others by sniffing their butt. Momma's milk goes in one end, comes out the other end. Ewes know the smell of their own milk. Tinkerbelle has been on a bottle and it makes her smell different, so momma doesn't recognize her. Ewes will attack other lambs, butt them away or kick them. Their milk is for their babies. The 3 ewes in the group pen, each has twins, but there is enough room for them to move freely and run to their own momma.

if you milked her and fed that milk to the baby would it then work?

 

[baymule]

It would be a wild rodeo! That particular ewe is real skittish and wild. Try to milk her? nope. Still no guarantee that she would take her lamb back. Sometimes I leave the rejected lamb with the mom and sibling in a pen. The mom still won't feed the rejected lamb, but the lamb benefits being with mom and it's sibling. I go out often to bottle feet it and it works. Tinkerbelle was so near death that I wouldn't put her back out with her mom and now she is a house lamb.

I took care of a ewe for friends that prolapsed, her insides came out her vulva. A neighbor with cattle talked me through sewing up her vulva, so she wouldn't keep pushing her insides out. I kept the ewe here and went out every 30 minutes to check on her. She went into labor, I cut the stitches out and she had twins. She had NO MILK. I made a fast trip to town to get powdered colostrum and when I got back, she had triplets! I quickly bottle fed all 3 lambs and settled them in for the night with their mom. She was a good mom, caring for her babies, but no milk. They happily sucked on her but the milk came from a bottle. I kept them 6 weeks because my friends had a hard work schedule and couldn't care for them.