More Lambing!

22/04/13
Today we had three ewes lamb.
Ewe 1 had two healthy boys.
Ewe 2 had two beautiful girls.
                AND
Ewe 3 had triplets, but unfortunately one was still born
But she still has two lovely ewe lambs.
That means we now have 8 living lambs!!!!

Lambing Updates

21/04/2013
11.30am Sheep 1 has just gone into labour.
1.50pm Sheep 1's water bags have just gone.
4.10pm Two ewes lambs born assisted.
             No.1 breach (mum pulled out)
             No.2 normal (I pulled out my first assisted lamb delivery!)

A tiring day for all!

The Lamb I assisted

The lamb mum assisted-very tired!
 

Nearly Lambing

Its now only a few days till the lambs are born, so today mum and I are bringing the sheep into the barn. Unfortunately one of our Ryelands developed a foot abscess and although we treated this for three weeks, she developed  twin lamb disease last week and did not make it.  We were advised by our vet throughout and unfortunately she did not respond to treatment.  This was a major blow, as she was young and in good condition but the shock of the abscess so close to lambing was too much.  We have 21 ewes ready to lamb. We have two Ryelands lambing amongst the 21 sheep lambing and I can't wait to see what their lambs look like. Fingers crossed for not too many problems!

Some lambs from previous years!

Chicks

Funny video of my three week old chicks!