Born: January 13, 2014
Dam: Freckles
Sire: Dodge
Twin: Bear
Bear
Born: January 13, 2014
Dam: Freckles
Sire: Dodge
Twin: Annabelle
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
It's Breeding Season Again
We're breeding for Christmas market lambs. It would be fantastic if we could get everyone bred around the same time.
Monday, January 13, 2014
The Runt Delivers Two
Freckles is our smallest ewe. In fact, we thought she was a dud and wouldn't produce any lambs. We considered slaughter for her but I decided to wait another year to see how she did. All the ewes from our first batch didn't lamb out in their first year so we allowed Freckles to stay along with them to see if she took or not. We were pleased to discover that she did in fact get bred back in the fall. Two ewes lambed before her and threw singles. Not uncommon for first timers. Freckles was due next and we wholeheartedly anticipated another single. Especially from such a small ewe and for her first time. So we were completely shocked to find she delivered twins over the supper hour today.
A tiny, thin little ewe lamb. And a big healthy brown ram lamb.
As per usual for first timers, Freckles didn't want to nurse. She wasn't rejecting but she also wasn't allowing. so what we do is tie her up and force her to accept the lambs.
So far that has worked for us, so hopefully it will work again.
A tiny, thin little ewe lamb. And a big healthy brown ram lamb.
As per usual for first timers, Freckles didn't want to nurse. She wasn't rejecting but she also wasn't allowing. so what we do is tie her up and force her to accept the lambs.
So far that has worked for us, so hopefully it will work again.
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Growing Lambs
Went into the barn yesterday and snapped some photos of the lambs how they look today with the new Nikon camera I bought myself after Christmas.
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| Our Christmas lamb born on Dec 24/13. |
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| We've decided to call him Noel. |
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| Our earlier Christmas lamb born on Dec 21/13. We name our ewes in alphabetical order, so this one gets a D name. We have called her Delilah. |
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| Annie |
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| Bonnie |
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| Celeste |
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| Sam the white ram making funny faces for the camera. |
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| Sam, Celeste and Annie |
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| One of our first lambs in 2013, born August. |
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| Celine, twin to Celeste, had a hard beginning and is far behind everyone else. |
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| Our black ewe born who is destined for slaughter was born in August. |
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| Celine again. |
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| The older black lambs in comparison to Celine much smaller frame. We're not sure if she will ever catch up. |
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| Either the August Ewe or ram lamb. |
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| And again. Can\t really tell them apart except by their genitals. |
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