[Ag-eq] Lambing on the BlanchRanch: a tragedy!

[nfoster at extremezone.com]

Hi Jewel:

I'm so sorry to hear about your ewe; I'm glad you will be able to save the lamb.

If lambs are like baby goats, they are a lot of fun.

Take care.

Nella

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

> I have a tragedy to relate and it was caused, mainly, because I am blind
> which would have been
> cancelled out if I had been just a bit more thorough.
> I let the ewes and their lambs out into the back paddock:  oh!  maybe 4 days
> ago.  However,
> yesterday, when Sam, my honorary shepherd came to count the lambs, he found
> that one ewe and her
> lamb had been left shut in the stockyard.  I had heard the occasional baah,
> but I assumed that it
> was from one of the ewes in the paddock.
> The ewe had died, of starvation I would guess, as, not knowing that there was
> a sheep there, I had
> not been putting out any feed.  I had intended to open the yard where there
> is a water trough, but
> as there was no feed there and there are other water troughs out in the
> paddock, I hadn't!
> When Sam found them, the ewe was cold, but must have died that morning as the
> lamb had been feeding
> from her even after her death:  I didn't know that that could happen
> ! he was fine and is now being bottle-fed.
> I had said that I would not be hand-rearing anything, but this, of course, is
> a completely different
> case as the lamb is strong and healthy, and he, sure, is that!  I have never
> seen such a big lamb
> for his age which is about a week.  He must weigh 10 pounds and already is up
> to my knees in height.
> I didn't have any replacer milk powder so, until I could get some, I gave him
> cow's milk which, at
> first, he thought was vile, but he changed his mind and was away with a hiss
> and a roar.  Well,
> perhaps, not the best choice of words, as he is very quiet.
> His name, btw, is Rambo!
>
>          Jewel
>
>
>
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