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| Afternoon Feeding |
Our last check Saturday night ended with Wild Rose Farm Dorset #109 having a set of twins - one of each. A field check this morning found Rambouillet ewe #329 getting ready to lamb. By 9:30AM, she had a single ram lamb in the pasture & it was just starting to sprinkle. We got them up to the barn easily and the rain was light, but finally got a little harder in the late afternoon. The 6:30 pasture check found 1st timer WRF Rambouillet #408 with a lamb about as far away as she could get from the barn. Another good mother & she followed us carrying her lamb up to the barn.
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| Group Of Barn Lambs - Triplet 01E Looks Good! |
Just completed another pasture check in a gentle rain .... at least it's around 55 degrees outside & nothing is happening!
2 comments:
How cute those lambs are! Why do some look golden and others pure white? Please report a total at the end of lambing.
Here's an explanation for the golden or yellow lambs from another source --- "nothing to worry about. its just the meconium (pre natal fecal material) that is passed prior to and during lambing. It is sometimes associated with a more difficult birth (I suppose more meconium is passed), but not always" --- we've found this to usually be the 2nd lamb, although we don't see most of our lambs actually being born and we (knock on wood) only assist a lambing once every 2 or 3 years.
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