Comments on: lambing wish granted http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/lambing-wish-granted/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:41:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: colouritgreen http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/lambing-wish-granted/#comment-419 colouritgreen Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:30:18 +0000 http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/?p=171#comment-419 thanks everyone alifelesssimple: that is interesting about the birth place. will be interested to see what you find out plot101 - I'm growing wayyy too many slugs too if its any consolation! Paula: yes thank goodness it was pleasant today. a little sun on their backs was just the ticket.. soooo much rain yesterday notaproperfarmer: glad to hear they are doing well! thanks everyone

alifelesssimple: that is interesting about the birth place. will be interested to see what you find out

plot101 – I’m growing wayyy too many slugs too if its any consolation!

Paula: yes thank goodness it was pleasant today. a little sun on their backs was just the ticket.. soooo much rain yesterday

notaproperfarmer: glad to hear they are doing well!

]]> By: Notaproperfarmer http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/lambing-wish-granted/#comment-416 Notaproperfarmer Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:34:16 +0000 http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/?p=171#comment-416 Good news & well done - I forgot how small they are (we only finished lambing 4 weeks ago and ours are all huge already). Good news & well done – I forgot how small they are (we only finished lambing 4 weeks ago and ours are all huge already).

]]> By: paula http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/lambing-wish-granted/#comment-410 paula Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:42:08 +0000 http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/?p=171#comment-410 Well done and to Sharona too. How clever to give birth to trips virtually unaided - and as a first timer. Fantastic! The weather looks better today - at the present - so I hope they are enjoying a few minutes of sunshine. Well done and to Sharona too. How clever to give birth to trips virtually unaided – and as a first timer. Fantastic!

The weather looks better today – at the present – so I hope they are enjoying a few minutes of sunshine.

]]> By: alifelesssimple http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/lambing-wish-granted/#comment-405 alifelesssimple Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:53:19 +0000 http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/?p=171#comment-405 Great news! We have a ewe with triplets too this year, not her first lambing though. We lamb outdoors as well and have very little promlems, because our sheep are free-roaming they come to the back door and bang if they are having problems and wait for us to sort it out. My mum is keeping a note of where everyone lambs this year as our young ewes who we breed all seem to try to go back to where they were born to lamb. It's very interesting. Great news!

We have a ewe with triplets too this year, not her first lambing though. We lamb outdoors as well and have very little promlems, because our sheep are free-roaming they come to the back door and bang if they are having problems and wait for us to sort it out.

My mum is keeping a note of where everyone lambs this year as our young ewes who we breed all seem to try to go back to where they were born to lamb. It’s very interesting.

]]> By: plot101 http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/lambing-wish-granted/#comment-404 plot101 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:56:02 +0000 http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/?p=171#comment-404 Congratulations! The only things I seem to be breeding are slugs and snails on my allotment. You are doing much better with your sheep! Hope they all thrive. Jandra Congratulations! The only things I seem to be breeding are slugs and snails on my allotment. You are doing much better with your sheep! Hope they all thrive.
Jandra

]]> By: colouritgreen http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/lambing-wish-granted/#comment-399 colouritgreen Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:57:03 +0000 http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/?p=171#comment-399 thanks Jo trips are not ideal.. not enough teats to go around!, but I'm pleased with Sharona, she is being a good mum, and I am glad we went with one of the larger breeds. re the drugs; we are registered with a local large animal vet and as it goes we have not and don't plan to give her the antibiotics. However, I wouldn't wish to advise anyone here, everyone must make their own decision. glad you are getting there with your lambing and kidding. thanks Jo
trips are not ideal.. not enough teats to go around!, but I’m pleased with Sharona, she is being a good mum, and I am glad we went with one of the larger breeds.

re the drugs; we are registered with a local large animal vet and as it goes we have not and don’t plan to give her the antibiotics. However, I wouldn’t wish to advise anyone here, everyone must make their own decision.

glad you are getting there with your lambing and kidding.

]]> By: LittleFfarm Dairy http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/lambing-wish-granted/#comment-398 LittleFfarm Dairy Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:59:44 +0000 http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/?p=171#comment-398 Hiya folks - congratulations on your triplets, what a baptism by fire for you as novice shepherds! Just a quick advisory note: please, if you don't have any on standby already, have a word with the vet & get some Dupaphen & Strep ASAP; because you intervened in the lambing Sharona will need an intramuscular jab @ 1ml per 25kg of her bodyweight, administered the sooner the better - the antibiotic will protect her from the danger of infection as a result of unwittingly introduced 'nasties'. Good luck! Jo, Tony & Ffarm Fach menagerie. P.S. Hurrah - we only have three ewes left to lamb as another had twins this morning - so the end is in sight - just in time for Phase Two kidding! So should be finished by mid-June...are we gluttons for punishment, or what?! Hiya folks –

congratulations on your triplets, what a baptism by fire for you as novice shepherds! Just a quick advisory note: please, if you don’t have any on standby already, have a word with the vet & get some Dupaphen & Strep ASAP; because you intervened in the lambing Sharona will need an intramuscular jab @ 1ml per 25kg of her bodyweight, administered the sooner the better – the antibiotic will protect her from the danger of infection as a result of unwittingly introduced ‘nasties’.

Good luck!

Jo, Tony & Ffarm Fach menagerie.

P.S. Hurrah – we only have three ewes left to lamb as another had twins this morning – so the end is in sight – just in time for Phase Two kidding! So should be finished by mid-June…are we gluttons for punishment, or what?!

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