[Ag-eq] The latest from the BlanchRanch
nfoster at extremezone.com
nfoster at extremezone.com
Wed Aug 19 19:32:46 UTC 2015
Jewel:
I'm so glad the lamb made it. Will you be getting any more this year?
Nella
Quoting Jewel via Ag-eq <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>:
> A little brief to be called a bulletin I thought, hence the change in the
> subject heading.
> I have had a rather frustrating winter with the sheep. I have top quality
> hay for them, to which
> they have, free, unimpeded access, but will they eat it! Not on your nelly!
> and don't ask me where
> to look for "your nelly" because I haven't the foggiest!
> The first lamb was born on August 6th: a very early one for this part of New
> Zealand.
> It had a very rough introduction into the world: to start with, it was born
> during a fairly heavy
> snowfall, on the top of the floodbank, the most exposed part of the entire
> property, and then once
> it had gained its feet and was staggering around on its wobbly little legs,
> it stumbled over the
> edge of the bank, and tobogganned right to the bottom, and then went on right
> through the sheep
> netting fence, so there it was, child on one side and mamma on the other.
> I don't know how long things remained in that state, but then, Keith who
> lives just over my back
> boundary and who has a clear view of the back paddock and bank from his
> cottage, saw what had
> happened and reunited mother and child who must be a tough little bugger as
> he/she has survived and
> appears to be doing well.
> Yesterday afternoon, the next ewe had 3 lambs and I was quite prepared to
> take one and bottle-feed
> it, but it looks, today, as though that won't be necessary.
> So, to date, I have a lambing rate of 200%: 4 lambs from 2 ewes!
>
> Jewel
>
>
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