Re: Lambing


"Howard Neil" <hneil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Jim Webster wrote:
> > We just started lambing. Matt went out to look sheep this morning and
found
> > a ewe with triplets and at least two more lambed.
> > They may be from the same batch, which must have been in lamb when he
bought
> > them, so we await with interest not unmixed with panic as to what
happens
> > now!
>
> They eat grass. They get bigger. You eat them. :-)
>
> Seriously, good luck. Mine don't start till mid March and they are only
> being scanned on Tuesday.
>
today has been frantic preparation, move stirks to improvised quarters,
clean out their building, convert their cubicles into lambing pens, sort
through ewes, no more of the triples are likely to lamb this week. Those
scanned with twins we will check tomorrow (240 of them) and Matt looked at
the singles on his way home as they are on other land. Some might have
lambed but none of them problems or he would have been back here for a
trailer.

Two ewes with their lambs in our old calf pens, (each was a single pen for
one calf so a ewe and her lambs is nicely placed in it) with plenty of
water, tub, silage and molasses
--

Jim Webster.
Pat Gardiner, Five years raving about bent vets and still no result



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