to send my sheep to hospital to be induced

[derxa]

For 3 days now not one of the buggers has given birth. They just lie there in their pregnant splendour. Not even bothering to get up and eat. I tootle round them on the quad bike every 2 hours. Not a sausage.

you need to make them a good, spicy curry not lamb and encourage them to have sex.

that, and book to be away for a few days starting now. That will do it.

Congratulations to you and the mummy sheep! My picture worked!!!

Any more OP? We've got lambs nearly ready to go now, makes me tired to think of just starting...!

Our lambs keep nipping next door for a nibble if his raspberry canes. I've explained to him it's because he's put his sheep net on upside down but you may as well talk to the netting!

On the death wish front sheep like to drown themselves don't they? In a "oh dear, my heads in a pond, now I'm dead," kind of way, rather than just lift their bloody heads up. Numptys they are.

two dead this morning. So will have to twin on

iliveinalighthouse I inherited this place from my father who sadly died last year. G. the shepherdess is in charge and an absolute wonder. Ds and I are doing the checking, lamb feeding and general other feeding. It's a steep learning curve! DH isn't a farmer.

poor baby lambs

sorry to read that derxa

I'm having flashbacks to pregnant sheep monitoring whilst I was on study leave for GCSEs

Most were born early in the morning

Sorry that two didn't make it :(

Nothing compares to being out in all weathers covered in iodine and sheep goo.

Oh no op! 😭

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I'm sorry that two didn't make it. Have you any orphans that will need fostering?

Yes cozie We have pet lambs that have been twinned on. Bloody sheep Anyway onwards and upwards

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I have this vivid memory of trying to drag her out of a drainage ditch where she'd stuck her head into the water flow and her body - particularly a sodden wet fleece - was acting as a sort of 'dam'. Luckily, it was a dryish summer.

Well that's something. Have the ewes accepted their new charges?

Yes they seem to be doing well

You must have steady sheep and a fine shepherdess. That's very pleasing - they do so much better with a ewe.

How have you done it? Did you skin them or have you tied the ewe up? I'm always curious how other people set on!

I've seen it done with an exceptionally good dog. (I didn't do that myself because the dog wasn't mine to command so I've always stuck with wet fostering or similar.)

We don't skin them just cover them in afterbirth. Dad used to skin the Suffolks though That was a whole different ball game.
Just off the field and three sets of healthy twins

Ahh! lambs . I used to keep my horse at a yard that also kept sheep. I miss the sweet little spring lambs but the sheep were a pain in the backside. The amount of times I have jumped off my horse to rescue sheep that had got stuck on its back (the crows were fond of pecking there eyes out if you didn't get there quick enough) or help to pull stuck ones out the boggy/ muddy edge of the pond. They do appear to have a death wish.

Any photos of your little lambs OP?

I'm technologically inept but will try today

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