Baby Pictures

This was Sat. AM. The first two.
Now have 17, out of 8 ewes and by the end on this month, should have over 200.

Cute!!! To cute for words. I love the livestock pictures. Keep them coming. 

Here were they get to stay for a few days.



Then one of the sets of triples.

I remember bringing in twins to the warm house basement for several days, we loved it as kids! we never got any triples tho

What's your "business"?  Lamb meat?  Wool?  Just curious....

I wonder what HD6GTOM (Tom Randol) thinks about all these babies?

Nap time

Unit3 wrote: Lovely, lovely, lovely. Makes the sleepless nights worth it.

7 born so far today. I will get some more pictures up later.
Unit3, I do not go to the barn at night. By using feed management, 90% have their lambs from 1 hour before sunrise to 1 hour before sunset.

This picture is from last spring, but she was here yesterday to help.
 


Edited by cabinhollow - 10 Mar 2019 at 8:11am

That's darn good, hope they all live

Still like around 20 ewes to lamb.
Had 22 not to get breed. Still working on the best way to do the 30 day breeding/lambing season.
Over 150 lambs born so far and most that I have lost have been preemies.
About a week ago, had 5 sets of triplets in two days and they all lived.
Sold 25, 1-2 week old lambs yesterday, but had 12 more born, so that did not cut down on my numbers much.
These will going out on grass in a week or so.
Not a good picture, about 50 took off behind the barn before I could take their picture.

shameless dude wrote: ever any problems with coyotes?

They are corral at night.
Not turned out until one hour after sunrise.
Put up one hour before sunset.
Anything that dies, gets buried deep.
Most of their pasture is at the lower end of a dead end valley.
The corral sets on top of a small ridge at the end of the valley.
Coyotes and deer do not like to go to the lower part of a dead end valley.
About 2-300 yards east and west are draws that lead to the creek.
So that were the coyotes and deer travel.
 

I wish our next door neighbor took care of his like you do. He's bad about leaving the little ones that die by freezing, I guess, to just lie around until his cousins old lab goes over and drags them home. Then my daughters Jack Russell goes over and steels them and drags them to our place. So you know who does the clean up. Deer the same way. Looked out the other day and there was probably 75 sheep in our pasture. He goes to work early, so called his wife, "Oh he's at work". so he didn't home until late. Took them home and the next morning they were right back in. Same thing yesterday and this morning. The ewes and lambs are very thin and I feel sorry for them, but I'm beginning to feel sorry for myself. We've got a very good five wire barbwire fence between us, and I'll be danged if I buy additional fencing to keep his sheep out. I'm about ready to call the law, or Shameless and see what they can do about it. Dang them things can eat a lot of grass. Done now.

Just got back form picking up 5 new rams. Three white and two black. That will give me 11 rams for this fall.
These are Longwool Leicester. Their wool will grow upto 7"-8" each year.

Done with lambing, not the best year but I can live with it.
This is the 2ed season with a 30 day breeding season and I am still working out the details. 17 older ewes did not get breed and none of the ewe lambs/just turning 1 year old. That equal 1/3 of the ewes.
Got them out on grass today and they are happy.