Greeting All!
I am a pacing, nail biting wreck right now. We keep thinking one of
our ewes is going to go but nothing - she's HUGE. My total life
experience in lambing is watching one ewe deliver last year, the other
did fine on her own without my seeing it. So. Yesterday one ewe was
looking
Hi Natasha,
It's hard to say when to panic with these girls since they seem to like to keep
you guessing. That being said, if it appears she is in labor or having
contractions and nothing happens within 30 minutes to an hour, you should have
her vet checked. I lost one ewe two years ago by
Thanks Ray,
The woman who sold me the one ewe came out to look at her. She didn't
think she was ready to lamb yet. She didn't know why she appeared to
be having contractions yesterday - do sheep get Braxton Hicks? She
didn't think her udder was big enough and it didn't look like she had
I am a rank novice, having only watched lambing this year. When one of my
ewes had that ping-pong ball thing, it was a lamb trying to be born who was
stuck. The ping-pong ball is the fluid sac around the lamb.
The ewe had one live lamb and one dead lamb when I went out to the barn.
The
Weve been raising them for a few years now and I still have a lot to learn.
I've been a cattleman all my life and they are still a little easier for me to
read than the Blackbellies. Calling the vet is usually my last resort, but the
problem with these Blackbellies is by then it can be too
Hi Natasha,
I'm pretty new with lambing also. This year was so much better for me. I kept
track of the days my ewes went i with the rams. I calculated the dates when
they could start giving birth. I have found that once they start filling up
with milk it is between one and two weeks until
