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.

Awesome autocorrect there.

Well done derxa!

Absolutely fascinating thread, thank you.

Thank you peanut I did nothing. A neighbour phoned G. She phoned me and DS and I rushed to the road. G and DS caught the lamb in a pincer movement.

Oh your heart must have been in your mouth. They're just like little children, aren't they. You have to have your eyes everywhere.

Only 15 to go

Come on Mrs sheep! Pop out those babies

Yes they're popping out. They're have been a few cases of lamb stealing by ewes which I didn't realise was a thing. Their hormones are going into overdrive.

Lamb stealing by ewes !

Goodness me, I hope you managed to work out who belonged to who!

Any chance of putting some orphaned lambs onto the 'stealers'?

PS - or lambs where the ewe has too many to cope with.

At what age will you send them to the slaughterhouse?? Its really odd when farmers gush on about they animals when we all know they are just commodities to you.

This thread is fascinating.

harshbuttrue I get what you're saying but... Ours are pedigree sheep. The females don't go to the slaughter house. Some tups go for breeding The other males will go to market when they're ready as fat lambs. Other than that we treat them well. Please start another thread about farming ethics because this one isn't about that.

Goodness me, I hope you managed to work out who belonged to who! Yes we spray a little coloured dot on twins and triplets on the same place e.g. front right leg so we know which one belong together.

I want a lamb so bad! So does DD who is sat shouting at me to get the pictures of the baby sheep back

Do you have a field FattyBitch?

Wonderful news. More squidgy baby lambs. Can we have more pics.

Nope There's a few parks and a nature reserve near me though...and farms...

Maybe I can steal a field.

derxa thanks for explaining how you identify them.

I'm loving this thread, it's so interesting.

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DD is very happy now. She's eating her dinner next to me and a big grin spread across her face. Now she's telling me all about the baby sheep and how she wants to.cuddle it.

And a rainbow. DS1 wants to know have you found the pot of gold?

Sadly not much gold here