One of our older ewes had twins yesterday. One of them is typically
colored, the other, a ram lamb, is completely black except for a patch of
dark brown on both shoulders. He is very striking in appearance. I may
keep him as a novelty. Do any of you experience an occasional lamb with
such
Fellow Shepherds,
I have 5 ABB wethers that were born in February. Their weights now range
between 34 and 53 pounds. They have always been pasture fed, except for
some occasional sweet feed to keep them trained to the bucket.
Do you'll experience similar variation in growth weights? Are
Hey Everyone,
A neighbor saw that one of my older ewes had her left front leg hung up in a
bush on which she was feeding and when she was released the leg was broken
just below the knee..
I splintered it with a padded piece of PVC pipe split longitudinally and
wrapped with an Ace bandage.
.
Thanks again for your help and thanks to whoever started the listserve
(Carol?). It has been extremely informative and fun for me.
Jerry Kirby
Windmill Farms
Picayune, Mississippi
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From: blueberryfarm blueberryf...@bellsouth.net
To: blackbelly
We lost a ewe this spring to coyotes so we bought an eight week old Great
Pyrenees. I have been taking her (Greta) to the shed where I feed the sheep
occasionally (they are pasture sheep) to acquaint her to the animals. I
stand in the corner and let her hide behind me if she wants. The sheep
Thanks very much Mark, Bonnie, and Oneta for your ideas. I tried milk
replacement yesterday and last night with a little success. I searched
for a fetus (nothing), palapated the udder (no lumps or pain), tried to
express milk (no luck), gave moma a penicilin shot (diarhhea), fed her
fresh
A two year old ewe had twins night before last. She was enormous with
bulging sides and a huge bag. I watched yesterday in the pasture and
never saw the lambs suckle. I put them in the sheep barn last night and
this morning she seems to avoid them. One of the lambs does not make
any
effort
I tried to express milk but could not. Her udder is neither firm nor
lumpy and it doesn't appear inflammed. She did not seem senitive to
palpation of the udder and she is active and feeding well. She has
diarhhea. I gave her 300,000 units of penicillin. I will have to
bottle feed the
.
Sorry.
Cecil in OKla
blueberryfarm wrote:
I watched a young ewe give birth to her first lamb a couple of days
ago.
It took her over an hour. To my inexperienced eye, everything
seemed to
go OK: ewe pushing hard, head first birth, momma licking all the
mucus
from her lamb, lamb struggling
I watched a young ewe give birth to her first lamb a couple of days ago.
It took her over an hour. To my inexperienced eye, everything seemed to
go OK: ewe pushing hard, head first birth, momma licking all the mucus
from her lamb, lamb struggling to get up, but then less and less
struggling
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:28 PM
Subject: [Blackbelly] Blackbellies Settling In
Hello everyone,
Thanks for the warm welcome. My little flock is settling in nicely.
They are calmer
We are primarily blueberry farmers, but started with American
Blackbellies about two years ago and have two small flocks of about a
dozen animals each.
Coyotes have been stealing my neighbor's chickens one by one. A couple
of weeks ago we found a dead ewe with her rear eaten out. We are
in their sheep. I know that we have had a few more problems
with parasites here in SC than we did further north in MD.
Stephanie Parrish
Westminster, SC
On Dec 15, 2007, at 8:34 PM, blueberryfarm wrote:
I have enjoyed reading all these posts on nutrition, but they make me
feel very inadequate
I have enjoyed reading all these posts on nutrition, but they make me
feel very inadequate. Am I not treating my blackbellies well? I simply
put them out to pasture, fertilize once in the summer and again in the
late fall when I put out my winter rye. They get granulated mineral ad
lib and
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