Sheep Chat Thread

[kuntrygirl]

I was lucky to get a pic with all 7 babies together. They had all eaten and had gone into the shed to take a noon nap.

 

[PrettyHorsez]

Aw cute

 

[chooks4life]

Like that black bellied look in goats and sheep. Nice. The badger/whatever facial markings are also pretty handsome.

 

[AlienChick]

Me, too.
I like the blackbelly and badger markings.
I see the two new ones there in the back.
They're all so cute!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Thanks everyone. I am having so much fun with them. The bottle fed babies are so spoiled. They follow me around EVERYWHERE. I was tempted to buy them some diapers and let them sleep inside the house. But I didn't want to separate them THAT much for the others. The know what time I get off from work, because I see them looking for me. They are sucking about 5 bottles of feed total between all of them per feeding. I love my babies!!!

 

[AlienChick]

I'm glad lambing is over and all the lambs are born and doing well.
Not having to jug moms and provide extra feed/water to the jugs has relieved a lot of extra work.
I still have the three bottle babies that I'm keeping (sold the rest).
They are fed with the bucket, and I also go around with a couple bottles in my hand and supplement-feed a few others that are with their moms.
Of course, more and more lambs are finding out about the bottles I've got in my hand, so I'm being mobbed by more and more lambs each day.

Here are the three bucket-babies. The photo is a bit blurry since it is a screen shot from a video.




And this is Dottie and her brother.
Their mom only has one good teat, so I make sure they get a little extra milk if they want it.





On Saturday Hubby helped me do all the hoof trimming, lamb CD/T shots, lamb 30-day weights, and sheep worming (if needed).
This is a pic of him trimming hooves.





Grass is growing, so I've been letting the sheep out for 15 minutes at a time throughout the as I fill up the hay and grain feeders. They LOVE it, of course!
On Sunday morning I took longer than expected to finish up some chores, and the sheep were out on the grass for a few HOURS

before I got around to bringing them in.
Needless to say, one of my sheep was severely bloated. I needed to get a treatment into her FAST or she was gonna explode.
She was inside the barn and just standing; not moving. I rushed back to the house and whipped up my bloat remedy and rushed back to force her to drink it.
She hated it, but with the bloated gut, she couldn't move much so I just kept drenching her.

Here's a pic of her bloated self:




After giving her the treatment, I went back to the house to eat breakfast since Hubby had it already on the plate.
On my way back out to check on the bloated ewe, I grabbed a stomach tube since I figured I'd have to use it to release the gas.
When I got back to the barn, I could not find her. I searched inside/outside and feared she found some place in a corner to explode.

I stood outside scratching my head trying to figure out where the heck this sheep could have gone; and then I looked down and she was standing right in front of me drinking water. I didn't notice her cuz I was looking for a HUGE bloated sheep and she was now down to her skinny self. I praised her for getting rid of all that gas and threw the stomach tube back in the truck.

Here's a pic of the bloated ewe when I found her a couple hours after treatment:




Needless to say, I'm making sure they don't spend too much time out there on the grass for now.

 

[chooks4life]

Good thing you got there in time! All's well that ends well.

 

[The Farm]

Here's my first sheep (a ewe)

 

[PrettyHorsez]

Here's my sheep Ashley hanging out with the goats

Then her by herself

 

[philipchickymad]

Another baby was born today.

what breed is he / she