New Lambs

We have new lambs on the farm. All of our original herd are due any time. Ewe 501T had twins on 31 Dec. I lost one due to the cold. I think she got seperated from her mom under the "Jug" fencing. I have fixed that problem. It seems I am always chasing problems. I inflict my ignorance on these poor animals all the time. I am learning but not always fast enough. Well, anyway, we named the little ewe "Bella". And she is doing fine.

 

Bella

 

 

This past monday morning our ewe 446s had triplets!!! I saw her heading out of the night area with two little lambs, Bette and Bebe, anad went to check on her. In the manger was a little white ball. I thought well, lost another. But no! she was alive! I picked her up and then picked up Bebe and got momma ewe back into the manger and closed the gate. I got the lamb first milk, clostrum, and fed "Lily". Got her going then went into town for a baby bottle. The lambing bottle is really too big. I now have a feeding schedule of every four hours for the next six weeks. But it is very exciting to have finally saved an animal instead of always loosing them. And Lily is very sweet as so are her sisters.
Went out yesterday and could not get the mother ewe on her feet. We took her to the vet. Now, our local vet is very good with cows. He sees them all the time. But we don't have many sheep in this part of the country. He said he thought it was a calcium imbalance. He gave her a Hydro-calcium drip. By the time we unloaded her back at the farm, she was on her feet again. I called the vet to let him know his educated guess was right. Knowledge for next time. Everyone doing fine now.
We have three more ewes due any minute. Don't know if I can handle any more excitement.

Oh, I want to thank my daughter and son-in-law for helping me build the jugs, two of them. I don't know what I would do without them to seperate all the new little lambs from the larger herd.