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

[Susan Roe]

Jewel,

So sorry to hear about your poor ewe, but how wonderful for your little lamb 
Rambo!  Perfect name.  Keep us in the loop with baby Rambo.

Also, I am rooting for New Zealand in the America's Cup sailing race.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jewel" <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>
To: "Agricultural and Equestrean Division List" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 6:16 PM
Subject: [Ag-eq] Lambing on the BlanchRanch: a tragedy!


>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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