SageHill
Herd Master
Starting up
My own lambing thread. I was hoping that I’d start the new year with a new lamb on the first. Instead I took care of a ewe who thought prolapse would be a good learning experience for me. Sigh. I’d ordered the prolapse harnesses (2 is always better than one) last week and of course they aren’t here so I fashioned one out of vet wrap. As the saying goes - “saw it on YouTube “ 😆
It wasn’t hard to do, though the ring in circles in a tight pen was a bit dizzying 😵. Got ‘er done. 👍🏼 checked her often through the day and all was well.
Today Jan 2 I’m officially hopping into the lambing thread. Sipping morning coffee and checking the sheep cams all looked normal. Sheep count normal and then……..
a new voice! A baby voice. Chugged the rest of my coffee, threw on my jacket and boots and went to the barn.
No it wasn’t Ms Prolapse she’s still sporting her homemade prolapse vet wrap harness. Needed a tad bit of adjustment (of course because vet wrap stretches). The new voice in the barn came from a ewe lamb that Silver had. I knew She was pregnant and bagging up, but thought it would be at least a few days. SURPRISE!
Active lamb 😊 - kinda knew who mom was, but mom - Silver - wasn’t too sure, or at least sure enough to let the little one nurse. She’d obviously cleaned her up 😊.
So being Tuesday it’s clean stall day I quickly cleaned out the lamb stall and built a makeshift jug with existing panels (damn didn’t decide and order panels yet - another woulda shoulda coulda dang it). Got mom and baby in the jug and held mom so the lamb could nurse. She’d been trying everywhere but when she’d get close to target teat mom would move away. A little TLC from me and she got a good feeding and actually nursed on both teats. I checked and both work 😊.
All is good 😊 love this life.
My own lambing thread. I was hoping that I’d start the new year with a new lamb on the first. Instead I took care of a ewe who thought prolapse would be a good learning experience for me. Sigh. I’d ordered the prolapse harnesses (2 is always better than one) last week and of course they aren’t here so I fashioned one out of vet wrap. As the saying goes - “saw it on YouTube “ 😆
It wasn’t hard to do, though the ring in circles in a tight pen was a bit dizzying 😵. Got ‘er done. 👍🏼 checked her often through the day and all was well.
Today Jan 2 I’m officially hopping into the lambing thread. Sipping morning coffee and checking the sheep cams all looked normal. Sheep count normal and then……..
a new voice! A baby voice. Chugged the rest of my coffee, threw on my jacket and boots and went to the barn.
No it wasn’t Ms Prolapse she’s still sporting her homemade prolapse vet wrap harness. Needed a tad bit of adjustment (of course because vet wrap stretches). The new voice in the barn came from a ewe lamb that Silver had. I knew She was pregnant and bagging up, but thought it would be at least a few days. SURPRISE!
Active lamb 😊 - kinda knew who mom was, but mom - Silver - wasn’t too sure, or at least sure enough to let the little one nurse. She’d obviously cleaned her up 😊.
So being Tuesday it’s clean stall day I quickly cleaned out the lamb stall and built a makeshift jug with existing panels (damn didn’t decide and order panels yet - another woulda shoulda coulda dang it). Got mom and baby in the jug and held mom so the lamb could nurse. She’d been trying everywhere but when she’d get close to target teat mom would move away. A little TLC from me and she got a good feeding and actually nursed on both teats. I checked and both work 😊.
All is good 😊 love this life.
