Sheep Chat Thread

[The Farm]

Ram lamb??? LOL

 

[kuntrygirl]

Ram lamb??? LOL

That is TOO FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your post made me laugh so hard. I am over here crying. Thanks for the laugh. I had a rough evening trying to lasso the 2 males into another pen away from the girls and it almost killed me doing this alone. I came in to take a break and I saw this post. I almost died laughing.

I'm not sure if it's a ram and I'm scared to look. And after reading your post and feeling so much better after having a good laugh, I don't think I'm going back out there to see if it's male or female. I don't want to get depressed all over again. I'm going wish for the best.

I'll let you know if a few days what is is.

 

[The Farm]

Okay sounds good...

I will wish for the best too.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Okay sounds good... I will wish for the best too.   

Well, I have some good news and some bad news.

The good news is that I will have PLENTY of lamb meat for this year. The bad news is NOW I HAVE 5 MALE LAMB !!!!!!!!!!! The one born yesterday IS A MALE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[The Farm]

Drat

Well better luck with your next lamb

Did you use a diff ram this yr?

 

[kuntrygirl]

Drat Well better luck with your next lamb   
Did you use a diff ram this yr?

LOL @ better luck with your next lamb. It is too early in the morning to laugh so hard at you and your antics. But I needed that laugh though.

Before I could look for and find a different ram last year, the boys had already planted their seed. :/ But this year, I WILL NOT make that same mistake. As soon as these babies are weaned, I have to separate and will actually try to sell them. 5 lambs is too much for my freezer. I already have 1 lamb in the freezer and have 2 that are waiting in another pen as we speak. So that would be 7 lambs in the freezer. If I had that much freezer space, I would do it but I don't.

I have been looking this morning for another Ram for next year. I want to give my girls a rest next year but I don't know if that will mess their cycle up. I really hate for them to deliver every single year. I know they are tired. :/

What is everyone's thoughts on ewes being pregnant every single year? Do you all give your girls a rest?

 

[chooks4life]

LOL @ better luck with your next lamb. It is too early in the morning to laugh so hard at you and your antics.

But I needed that laugh though.

Before I could look for and find a different ram last year, the boys had already planted their seed.

But this year, I WILL NOT make that same mistake. As soon as these babies are weaned, I have to separate and will actually try to sell them. 5 lambs is too much for my freezer. I already have 1 lamb in the freezer and have 2 that are waiting in another pen as we speak. So that would be 7 lambs in the freezer. If I had that much freezer space, I would do it but I don't.

I have been looking this morning for another Ram for next year. I want to give my girls a rest next year but I don't know if that will mess their cycle up. I really hate for them to deliver every single year. I know they are tired.

What is everyone's thoughts on ewes being pregnant every single year? Do you all give your girls a rest?

Too bad you don't live near me, I'd buy a ram lamb.

My thoughts on them bearing every year is that unless they are of a breed or species that naturally only bears every second or third year or whatever, then it's fine, provided they receive enough nutrition and aren't being artificially induced or assisted to breed against their natural inclinations.

After all, humans have selected them for countless generations of their ancestry for high/regular yield so only those strongest and most able to bear often have survived, generally speaking, so it's not like you've taken a second-year-bearer out of a wild environment and tried to force it into breeding every year. But, that said, like chickens sometimes some strains need assistance to stop bearing as often as they've been bred to, since some have been bred to produce at their own expense, so if any of your girls look like it'd be better to take a rest next season, of course, go with that. You know your animals better than anyone on the forum who has never even seen them.

Do you have any pics of your rams?

Best wishes.

 

[kuntrygirl]

LOL @ better luck with your next lamb. It is too early in the morning to laugh so hard at you and your antics. But I needed that laugh though.


Before I could look for and find a different ram last year, the boys had already planted their seed. :/ But this year, I WILL NOT make that same mistake. As soon as these babies are weaned, I have to separate and will actually try to sell them. 5 lambs is too much for my freezer. I already have 1 lamb in the freezer and have 2 that are waiting in another pen as we speak. So that would be 7 lambs in the freezer. If I had that much freezer space, I would do it but I don't.


I have been looking this morning for another Ram for next year. I want to give my girls a rest next year but I don't know if that will mess their cycle up. I really hate for them to deliver every single year. I know they are tired. :/


What is everyone's thoughts on ewes being pregnant every single year? Do you all give your girls a rest?

Too bad you don't live near me, I'd buy a ram lamb.

My thoughts on them bearing every year is that unless they are of a breed or species that naturally only bears every second or third year or whatever, then it's fine, provided they receive enough nutrition and aren't being artificially induced or assisted to breed against their natural inclinations.

After all, humans have selected them for countless generations of their ancestry for high/regular yield so only those strongest and most able to bear often have survived, generally speaking, so it's not like you've taken a second-year-bearer out of a wild environment and tried to force it into breeding every year. But, that said, like chickens sometimes some strains need assistance to stop bearing as often as they've been bred to, since some have been bred to produce at their own expense, so if any of your girls look like it'd be better to take a rest next season, of course, go with that. You know your animals better than anyone on the forum who has never even seen them.

Do you have any pics of your rams?

Best wishes.

Thank you for your input. Yes, they have been busy ever year and I would like to give their bodies a rest.

I will try to take pics of them this weekend and post. I noticed that when I went out yesterday to bottle feed, one of the rams tried to test me by "gently" nudging his head up against my back side. He's definitely a goner because I already know what that means. His grandfather had head butted someone that was at my house a few years ago and the person had a minor injury to his head.. Needless to say, Jr Boy (that was his name) was taken to the slaughter house within that same hour. He dressed out at a little over 100 lbs.

 

[kuntrygirl]

It looks like I will be bottle feeding 2 lamb. The one that was born day after yesterday has just been walking around and I have not noticed it trying to suck on the mom. I can't say that the mom is rejecting it because she's not. The baby for some reason was not trying to find the mom to suck. That was a red flag for me. So, I commenced to making it a bottle and persuaded it to suck yesterday. It took a few minutes for it to catch on but once it lock on to the bottle nipple it sucked it all. 9 ounces gone gone gone. The mom fussed and complained but oh well. When I went out this morning and he heard my voice, he started crying and came running to eat. I surely wasn't expecting to have to bottle feed any babies this year. Oh well.

 

[kuntrygirl]

LOL @ better luck with your next lamb. It is too early in the morning to laugh so hard at you and your antics. But I needed that laugh though.


Before I could look for and find a different ram last year, the boys had already planted their seed. :/ But this year, I WILL NOT make that same mistake. As soon as these babies are weaned, I have to separate and will actually try to sell them. 5 lambs is too much for my freezer. I already have 1 lamb in the freezer and have 2 that are waiting in another pen as we speak. So that would be 7 lambs in the freezer. If I had that much freezer space, I would do it but I don't.


I have been looking this morning for another Ram for next year. I want to give my girls a rest next year but I don't know if that will mess their cycle up. I really hate for them to deliver every single year. I know they are tired. :/


What is everyone's thoughts on ewes being pregnant every single year? Do you all give your girls a rest?

Too bad you don't live near me, I'd buy a ram lamb.

My thoughts on them bearing every year is that unless they are of a breed or species that naturally only bears every second or third year or whatever, then it's fine, provided they receive enough nutrition and aren't being artificially induced or assisted to breed against their natural inclinations.

After all, humans have selected them for countless generations of their ancestry for high/regular yield so only those strongest and most able to bear often have survived, generally speaking, so it's not like you've taken a second-year-bearer out of a wild environment and tried to force it into breeding every year. But, that said, like chickens sometimes some strains need assistance to stop bearing as often as they've been bred to, since some have been bred to produce at their own expense, so if any of your girls look like it'd be better to take a rest next season, of course, go with that. You know your animals better than anyone on the forum who has never even seen them.

Do you have any pics of your rams?

Best wishes.

Here's are pics of the rams.

Here they are when they were babies.

Here they are 11 months later.