hello everyone!
I will be on the road May 21st headed for PA with a load of consigned
animals going to the True Colors Boer Sale in PA on May 26th.
After delivering the consigned animals to the sale arena I will be
making a PA NJ CT PA loop to pick up and drop off animals.
After the sale I
Hi all:
I just had my second ewe lamb last night. She had twins, a ram and a ewe
between 2:45 and 3:45 AM. When the first one (the ram) was born she began to
clean him off, but once he moved she began butting him into the wall.
Fortunately I was there to rescue him. She did a little better
My guess is hat she won't ever take them. . You could keep her in
a stantch and see if that helps any but my guess is she will only but
them when they are out and they don't understand not to come back. I
think you now have twin bottle babies. But that is just my opinion.
Nancy
Quoting
Sandy,
Yes, I strongly suggest a stanchion gate on the front side of your
lamb pen. Put the mother's head through it (sticking ouward through
the stanchion into the hallway outside the pen). Place a tub of nice
dry hay and a bucket of water just under her head so she can always
eat and
Thank you Mary. If you can find the picture that would be great. I've been
looking through the plans and have found a portable stanchion which would
probably work.
Sandy
- Original Message -
From: Mary Swindell mswin...@siu.edu
To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info; SHession
There is a photo of Mary's stanchion at
http://blackbellysheep.org/articles/pens.htm
I built one using her plans and it worked great when I had an unwilling ewe.
Carol
At 07:29 AM 5/11/2012, you wrote:
I have a handbuilt stanchion gate (made from the Midwest Plans
blueprints), but you can
Thank you to all for the good advice. The lambs continue to do well. Mom lets
the babies nurse while I hold her, and has become increasingly less aggressive
with them over the course of the day. I am hopeful that she will accept them.
I will put together a headgate for her tomorrow, if
My dad made a halter out of some flat nylon woven strapping for a ewe
that would not take her lambs. We tied her to the pen and p;ut hay and
water within reach and in 3 days she took her lambs. We supplemented
the lambs with bottle feeding also. She had triplets. When she did it
again the
