Little lambs
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Shaping up to be a busy time of year. My sis and bro-in-law roughly estimate 100-130 ewes ready to lamb in the next few weeks... They're behind on getting ready so we've all been pitching in to help catch them up. Mike
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Finster hates lambs, just hates them! Every time he walks past a lamb pen they run up to the fence hollering "Daaaaady, Daaaaady". Go figure.
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That might of just been what he told you so it would not seem so weird. ...interesting part was castrating time,,,,,he used his teeth. ive heard that was common many years back.
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That might of just been what he told you so it would not seem so weird. ...interesting part was castrating time,,,,,he used his teeth. ive heard that was common many years back. Never heard of using the chompers. We used “rubber bands” on their tails and jewels. Let that sink in...a super small industrial strength rubber band around your boys.
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My dad just finished lambing. Won’t be long and he will dragging my sister and brother all over going to “show and sales”. They are way into it. He burnt me out on it in high school and I have zero interest in anything farm now. My sister won the Missouri State fair a few years ago. That dumb lamb sold for $21,500 at the sale of champions. Crazy. I tease him that he got remarried and had more kids just to have a reason to continue his hobby. You must be doing Club lambs ..
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We had Oxfords here ,for 13 years....small flock..most we ever lambed out was 20 ewes....My son had some very nice show sheep too....here's one of his rams ...325 lbs
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Re: Little lambs
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My dad just finished lambing. Won’t be long and he will dragging my sister and brother all over going to “show and sales”. They are way into it. He burnt me out on it in high school and I have zero interest in anything farm now. My sister won the Missouri State fair a few years ago. That dumb lamb sold for $21,500 at the sale of champions. Crazy. I tease him that he got remarried and had more kids just to have a reason to continue his hobby. These are hair sheep. Most are bound for sale... My brother-in-law ran cattle for years and decided to try something else. He sat down and crunched the numbers several times and came to the conclusion that he could turn a better profit with these sheep. We'll see. Mike
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Re: Little lambs
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It's funny, I'm not real soft hearted when it comes to animals...
But there isn't much that tugs at your heart strings like a newborn lamb.
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And around here they alway lamb on the coldest day of the year in Jan and Feb.....
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And around here they alway lamb on the coldest day of the year in Jan and Feb..... Some of our biggest wettest snows have come in March. Nothing like a New England Nor'Eastah but bad news if it comes during lambing... But the weather reports call for nice Spring weather for the foreseeable future so that's one less worry. Plenty of coyotes around though. Mike
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And around here they alway lamb on the coldest night of the year in Jan and Feb..... Fixed it for ya! Was nothing worse than the 2-3am checks and have one struggling when it was brutal cold. It seemed like you would just get warmed up enough to get back to sleep ans it was time to chore before school.
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And around here they alway lamb on the coldest day of the year in Jan and Feb..... Some of our biggest wettest snows have come in March. Nothing like a New England Nor'Eastah but had news if it comes during lambing... But the weather reports call for nice Spring weather for the foreseeable future so that's one less worry. Plenty of coyotes around though. Mike They have a guard donkey...or..llama...Great Pyrenees ??
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They have a dog, Chief. He is part Pyrenees and something else. My parents live on the premises too and Chief is dad's constant companion...
He's a pretty good dog. They had a goat drop a kid in the middle of a cold night... little feller didn't make it. As soon as dad stepped out the door the next morning Chief came and got dad and took him to the paddock to show him the kid. Chief has the instincts, but it's just him with a couple hundred head.
Brother-in-law is looking into a llama too.
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And around here they alway lamb on the coldest night of the year in Jan and Feb..... Fixed it for ya! Was nothing worse than the 2-3am checks and have one struggling when it was brutal cold. It seemed like you would just get warmed up enough to get back to sleep ans it was time to chore before school. Yup night ! Lol....we even had a baby monitor in the barn and in our bedroom,during lambing....just so they didn't freeze to death....we could get out to the shed and get the colostrum in them and under the heating station..
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They always come on the coldest night... It's like the law or something.
Mom always laughs when she tells the story about waking up one morning and finding a dozen or so piglets in the bathtub...
The sow had her litter on the coldest night of the year... So grandpa sacked them up in burlap bags and brought them in the house.
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One trick we learned with a cold lamb.....fill up the tub with very warm water ( in the house bathroom) and put the lamb in a plastic garbage bag...with the head sticking out of course.....and lay the lamb in the tub ..to get its core temp up....works slick and keeps lamb dry.
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One trick we learned with a cold lamb.....fill up the tub with very warm water ( in the house bathroom) and put the lamb in a plastic garbage bag...with the head sticking out of course.....and lay the lamb in the tub ..to get its core temp up....works slick and keeps lamb dry. Good info. Thanks. Mike
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years back I helped a buddy who had about that many ewes. I did the night shift "baby sitting' during lambing. interesting part was castrating time,,,,,he used his teeth. ive heard that was common many years back. That's how they did it here, long ago . I mentioned that here a while back...no body seemed to know what I was talking about. That was considered the sanitary way , back in the day .
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years back I helped a buddy who had about that many ewes. I did the night shift "baby sitting' during lambing. interesting part was castrating time,,,,,he used his teeth. ive heard that was common many years back. That's how they did it here, long ago . I mentioned that here a while back...no body seemed to know what I was talking about. That was considered the sanitary way , back in the day . Well they sure as heck ...didn't do it that way in Maine.....You'd be hard pressed to find someone with that many teeth.....
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I raised a few sheep several years ago. One fault I found was a perfectly healthy ewe could be walking in a pasture one day & think to herself "I wonder what it is like to die?" She will die & there ain't a darn thing you could do about it.
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That might of just been what he told you so it would not seem so weird. ...interesting part was castrating time,,,,,he used his teeth. ive heard that was common many years back. Then what? Just swallow??? LOL
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We don't bother castrating. They bring the same at the sale barn. This is hair sheep I'm talking about.
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My son banded all his sheep.....it worked out great,to get a nice tail dock
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My dad raised sheep and was around them all my life. My dad always had a bottle of whiskey around with a nipple on the bottle when lambing started. The sick one's came inside and got them all warmed u[ and he gave them a shot of whiskey. I'm not sure if he had some other thing mixed in with it or not. He said it was the best medicine you could give them. LOL
Lambing was a great time of the year and nothing more fun to be around are the lambs. LOL
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Not sure Nessy, they're hair sheep. I'll ask my sister... I'm headed back over tomorrow to help build fence.
They're usually pretty skittish, but I managed to hold that lamb for a minute... The ewe wasn't happy. I got the stink eye and foot stomp.
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Sac, I helped my sis get the majority of her sheep off a trailer a few days back. The seller said all the ewes had been exposed but couldn't give definite numbers... His rough estimate for lambing was March 20... A few have already hatched.
I have a feeling the next week or two will be busy.
Somewhere between 150-200 head right now... If things work out the way they hope they plan on expanding the operation even more.
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New one from yesterday... Mike Lost that little one this morning... But another one was born this afternoon. Mike
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We use to milk out the colostrum into a syringe and feed it to the lamb...and then 2-3 sqirts of "Lamb Saver "...Got it from Pipestone Vet..on line.....got them going !
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We gave the mother a couple squirts of lamb saver too.....and the mother got a 5 gal pail of warm water with molasses mixed in it.
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I asked my sister a few days ago and forgot... Katahdin ewes, Dorper ram. Mike
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