Flying Whites

[HayleyB]

Nope not chooks...........

Lambs

My farmer friend has had his 200 ewes scanned and 37 are carrying triplets - pretty devastsating really. But anyway subject to survival any that survive as threes the smallest is given away soooo.............

I need to get a holding number and quick

[MaureenHall]

I'll have a look on our freecycle for some babies bottles for you Good luck!

[lynda66]

ooooooooo that's so exciting ...... have you got room for 37 lambs lol ...... that was always the best bit about my grandparents living on a farm, baby lambs are ace

are they for food?? or are you gonna keep them?? cos you might end up with all the boys

[HayleyB]

Babies bottles

Weeeeeeeeeeeelllllllll, maybe if we get a couple of girlies I know they won't lay me any eggs but..........

[moggssue]

Ohhhh, citing!!! Piccies please .... hmmm, then again maybe not cos I dont have room for any and they'll be just sooooo cooote!!

[Hilary B]

Ohhhh, citing!!! Piccies please .... hmmm, then again maybe not cos I dont have room for any and they'll be just sooooo cooote!!

Yeah, tiny baby lambs ARE cute, once they are cleaned up. As they grow, they become amusing, then the amusement wears off as they develop into greedy little thugs, and they get less cute by the day. (a bit like any baby really)
We always tried to foster a triplet onto a ewe with a single, or whose lamb had died. usually worked, but we reared a few on the bottle most years. We did have one ewe who had triplets 3 years running, and reared them all without help. The year she only had twins I 'stole' some colostrum for the orphans. You don't get many like that! We never had more than 100 ewes, and we didn't scan, mainly because of the (humorous, sort of) poem about the severe fallibility of the system in its early days.

[HayleyB]

Waiting for Kev to email me with the due dates and I'll see how many we can take, how much does half a lamb sell for nowadays anyone?

[Glutton4...]

Dunno mate, but I'm dead jealous!

[shirlthegirl43]

Do you know anyone with dairy goats? We always had a freezer full of goat milk and colostrum. We reared calves on the goat milk and the colostrum is suitable for all baby animals if their mum can't provide.

[HayleyB]

Kev's got milk powder for me and will probably give the colostrum anyway to the lambs from the ewe. He's been a farmer all his life so I know they'll have had a good start.

Glutton - sorry mate maybe come visit