A set of triplets yesterday

A very non event full set of female triplets yesterday.

Today was a stressful for both me and ewe 16 Z.
A first for me, as I assisted with my first pulling of a lamb.

I was aware that she was in labour around noon, and at 4 pm I decided I must help.
At 4pm I couldn't see the front feet of the lamb , only the nose.

I pushed the head of the lamb back inside the ewe, and fished around until I found the front feet of the lamb. I got a grip on the legs and pulled slow and steady. Soon I could see the head again and within one more minute the lamb was out and moving around on the straw.

What a rush!
Fist pump and high fives!

It was a single male lamb weighing in at 16.2 lbs.

Another black lamb again.

Wow!!!! bah bah Black Sheep

This is what I found this morning!

 Born as a single lamb at 13.3 lbs.

Unfortunately the mother rejected it.

Knowing how much I dislike bottle feeding lambs, I restrained the ewe to let the lamb suck.

When I released the ewe she ignored the lamb and wouldn't clean the lamb like most ewes do.

It wasn't until 5 hours later when she was done with the afterbirth that she resumed cleaning the lamb.

Shortly after that the lamb was sucking without a problem.

any comments are welcome?

A place to hang out

These lambs know how to relax.

They go to the creep feed area where the mature sheep can't get into.

They haven't discovered that they can eat the food there, but they will figure it out eventually.

 

Hold on , we're going for a ride!

Quads !!!!

Two days ago we had a ewe that gave birth to 4 lambs.
All lambs survived, but the smallest one was rejected by the ewe.
We started to bottle feed the little lamb with the hope that we can get another ewe to adopt him.

 

Play time at living sky ranch

Combining playtime with a good back massage.

tube feeding a lamb

It was noticed that one of the triplets (13B) became week and skinny.  It looked like she was about to die.
We tried to bottle feed her but she showed no interest. We decided to try to tube feed her directly to her stomach.
We had never done this before, so we watched this youtube video before we attempted the task.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEJX91unbaQ 
It worked, the lamb recovered and was reunited with the mother and sisters.

Here is a Sheep cleaning one of her twins.

 

Triplets

All Female

All born within an hour

All standing and sucking without any assistance
Birth weights are

• 11.7 lbs
• 10.6 lbs
• 10.5 lbs

Two sets of twins today

 A boy and a girl for ewe 10W

 

And another  boy and girl for ewe 17X

 

Another single birth

A new huge lamb

13.8 lbs.

                  

This female lamb 6B was born to 30z

More action in the Barn

This is lamb 2B and Mother 6Z BON

Birth weight was 8lbs.

And today we had triplets

3B 4B AND 5B   2 Girls and a Boy

Weights of 9.8 lbs. for the male and 11.4 and 8.2 for the females.

Too Cute

A photo of the first born lamb at Living Sky Ranch.

We have our first lamb of the year

A female lamb born to Peggy and Adonis weighing 11 lbs.

Peggy and the lamb are doing fine.

Stage Fright?

In our exitement as first time lambers, I think we may have acted to quickly by putting the suspected sheep in the maternity ward.

We have returned them to the flock and will wait with more patience.

They sure look huge