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Re: Little lambs [Re: Mike in A-town] #6189731
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Mike, when I was a kid we had 600 head of ewes. Some days when we were lambing we would have 30-40 a day. Spent lots of nights in the lambing barn.

Re: Little lambs [Re: Mike in A-town] #6189740
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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.

Mike


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Re: Little lambs [Re: Mike in A-town] #6189769
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I remember when in the west 10s of thousands of sheep ranged the National Forest. Yep, my brotherinlaw used his teeth. They slept in the lambing sheds and handled thousands, apparently sheep don't give birth unassisted.
Wool used to be an American product. Mo. used to subsidize wool here. With the subsidy and the wool crop a ewe would always make a high margin.

Re: Little lambs [Re: Mike in A-town] #6190497
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In the 70’s when we had sheep, I think Dad always said the wool would pay for the ewes keep for the year and the lamb was profit. Maybe it was the other way around, I don’t remember for sure.

We generally had to pull a few lambs at birth. We lambic a lot of yearlings and they wouldn’t come to their milk without oxytocin. So we always had small pens for ewes with their lambs until everything was fine then we would ick them out in a bigger trap/small pasture. Always kept mommas and babies separate from pregnant ewes.

Re: Little lambs [Re: Mike in A-town] #6190886
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Originally Posted By: Mike in A-town
New one from yesterday...



Mike


Lost that little one this morning... But another one was born this afternoon.

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Re: Little lambs [Re: Mike in A-town] #6190906
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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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Re: Little lambs [Re: Mike in A-town] #6190910
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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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Re: Little lambs [Re: Nessmuck] #6195267
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Originally Posted By: Nessmuck
What breed is that one ?


I asked my sister a few days ago and forgot...

Katahdin ewes, Dorper ram.

Mike


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Re: Little lambs [Re: Mike in A-town] #6195270
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Nessy you're over your limit on PM's.

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