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New Baby Lambs
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10-07-2010, 05:19 AM
wow! someone's been busy up there!
 would love to come see them. "a great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." w. james
"a great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
w. james
10-07-2010, 01:25 PM
Please, anyone, feel free to give a call and come up to see the babies. You can hold and cuddle a baby. We encourage all the moms to let us hold the babies so they will not be afraid of us. It works out well. Pam 345 8440
I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!"
10-07-2010, 04:46 PM
Okay, call me a sucker..... One lamb has been abandoned by mom. No amount of work and force-nursing is making her accept him, so........ yeah, he is in a box next to my bed and I am bottle feeding him. I must say that after the first two hours of resisting the bottle during the day, he is now taking 4 oz at a time. Literature says feed him every 6 hours for the first three days or so, then reduce to 8 and then 12 . Wow... that seems pretty fast to me. Seems I bottle fed goats for weeks and weeks at four times a day....
Fed him well around 7 PM. He went to sleep and is just dead to the world..... but breathing. Now the little guy is snoring! Lamb snores. Great.... At least they are little sounds and I know he is breathing! I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!"
I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!"
10-08-2010, 03:40 AM
Sad to say the little guy did not make it. He went into respiratory distress and I suspect pneumonia or underdeveloped lungs. However he died warm, loved and at peace.... in the end it is what most of us would hope for.
I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!"
10-08-2010, 06:26 AM
So sad about your lost lamb, but I am happy for your success with the others. Will try to find time to visit and cuddle - and talk to you about buying a weaned ram for my Daisy. Best wishes to you and ewes.
aloha, Rene
10-08-2010, 05:20 PM
Rene, lets talk about that ram soon. We want you to pick him out so we don't castrate him. The lamb you have... is she breedable? I am sure I am supposed to already know this but the shelf life for information in my head is extremely... well..... lacking.
Please come see them soon. They are just so darned adorable! I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!"
I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!"
10-10-2010, 05:30 AM
My Daisy has mothered lambs before. She's an experienced mom. When were you planning on docking and castrating? This week is super busy for me, because I am in the last planning stages of the 10/16 EAT to the BEAT benefit concert for the Puna Community Medical Center, and there are so many last minute things to do and items to pick up. Will next Monday (10/18) be too late for you? If it works, give me a time and I'll be there.
10-10-2010, 10:26 AM
Renee, no rush. I haven't even found out from Craig and Jared if/when they are coming up to do it. They said they would but...... who knows. I know we have the burdizo to that is no problem.
Are you looking to breed in color or stay all white? I will be keeping one male intact for us and using him to breed for a year until his siblings are old enough to breed, then it is a new ram for us. If you like the same ram I do, we can just stud him to you unless you want to keep a male. Most people I know don't. I just happen to have the space.  Pam
I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!"
10-10-2010, 06:26 PM
Sad to say we lost the littie golden lamb. He died warm and loved at my bedside. Probably respiratory distress or a heart problem. NOW I have another all brown little boy in the house. He is a third in a set of triplets that has been rebuffed. He has been sneaking in food from whatever ewe he could latch onto for a few minutes but he is extremely small. I am surprised he has been so active.... that activity kept me from realizing what was going on. We began offering him lamb formula from a baby bottle out in the field at three days of age. He gulped it down. He is strong and thriving but today it rained and was cold and my heart was winning the war with my head...so now he is in the house in a dog crate. He is doing really well, recognizes me and like to be held and cuddled even when not eating but I am making him sleep in the crate out next to the fireplace. He will return to the pasture after his breakfast bottle. Methinks it was as much me not wanting to go out in the wet and cold to feed him at 9 PM as concern for him wet and cold for the night. He is a typical little orphan.. plays with all the little sibling groups off and on. He is milk chocolate brown in color with one tiny white patch on his side. I am trying to convince myself that I WILL be sending him back out to the pasture and sheep barn in the morning.... I will.... I will... I will...
I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!"
10-11-2010, 06:11 AM
Oooh - so sad to lose a baby when it hasn't even had a chance to enjoy the world...
Since I am not breeding for wool, color doesn't matter. I am breeding lawnmowers because I have a LOT of pasture. I am also breeding because they are happier when they have company. And because I just love having my own lambie-pies to cuddle. So I don't mind if you pick one out for me if the delay would cause you problems. |
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