#LAMBMETRICS for the day
Drysdale & English Leicester Flocks
Born today: 3
Total Lambs Born: 88
Drysdale lambs (live total): 42
English Leicester lambs (live total): 30
English Leicester X lambs (live total): 11
Total Sets of Twins born: 28
Total Sets of Triplets born: 1
Total ewe lambs: 45
Total ram lambs: 43
Ewes lambed /76: 58 (76.3 %)
Lamb % : 143 % [live]
Assisted/Dystocias: 8
Losses: 5 [lamb]; 0 [ewe]
Notable Midwifery tales:
Mostly sunny kind of day today although there was a bit of cloud around this afternoon. Made for a good morning to go through and do the catch-up ear tags on the lambs born before the tags arrived.
And then the ewes were very thrilled to be going out to the Big Paddock. As usual, there were the ones that nicked off without the youngsters and then came back an hour or two later after they had stuffed their faces and the lambs had cried and cried and cried.
Always a bit of trepidation when I put them out. I can’t watch them as closely and I worry about missing ones that may come down with pneumonia or some other ailment. Life can be very fragile out there in Nature. (And yes, I need to make sure all my sheep are robust and suited to the environment they are in – but I still worry!)
Hopefully, they will go from strength to strength on the good grass. 🙂 🙂
Not many to go now…. so here’s a lamb, who came to say hello, to tide you over until tomorrow. 🙂
