[Ag-eq] Lambing on the BlanchRanch proceeds at a breakneck pace

[nfoster at extremezone.com]

Jewel:

How many ewes do you have?

Do you keep your own ram?

Also what breed of sheep do you have?

Nella

Quoting Jewel <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>:

>
> A busy morning!  When I went out to the barn to feed the ewes,  from the
> sounds of newborn lamb
> bleats, 2 of the ewes had lambed in a small catching pen.
> When I searched around I found 2 lambs up on their feet, and one ewe lamb
> that didn't look too
> bright, so I brought her inside and put her in front of the fan heater to
> warm up and then  took her
> back to the newly-lambed ewes that I had shifted into another pen.  I didn't
> know which ewe she
> belonged to but I hoped that they did.
> >From the calling of one of the ewes and the answering lamb bleat from inside
> the other half of the
> barn, I figured that when I rehomed them, I had missed a lamb, so I hunted
> for it, found it and
> reunited the family.
> The one that I had taken inside to the heater seems to be ok now.
> I will not be hand-feeding any lambs;  they make it on their own to,
> eventually,  become lamb roasts
> or they won't!
>
>          Jewel
>
>
>
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