#LAMBMETRICS for the day
Drysdale & English Leicester Flocks
Born today: 6
Total Lambs Born: 59
Drysdale lambs (live total): 35
English Leicester lambs (live total): 14
English Leicester X lambs (live total): 6
Total Sets of Twins born: 20
Total Sets of Triplets born: 0
Total ewe lambs: 27
Total ram lambs: 32
Ewes lambed /70: 38 (54.3 %)
Lamb % : 147 % [live]
Assisted/Dystocias: 4
Losses: 4 [lamb]; 0 [ewe]
Castledale & Merino Flocks
Born today: 2
Total Lambs Born: 42
MerinoX lambs (live total): 3
Castledale lambs (live total): 32
Total Sets of Twins born: 19
Total Sets of Triplets born: 0
Ewes lambed /62: 23 (37.1 %)
Lamb % : 152% [live]
Assisted/Dystocias: 0
Losses: 4 [lamb]; 0 [ewe]
NOTABLE MIDWIFERY TALES:
Glorious sunshine today after the cloud cleared in the morning. Lambs and ewes alike seemed to greatly enjoy it.
The older lambs have reached the age where “evening zoomies” are A Thing before bedtime. 🙂 Will try to video one day but no guarantees!
Last night I was a little late getting to “Lambing Camp” after dinner and blog and I took Maggie (Border Collie) with me. She was great and alerted me to a problem – wherein I discovered that the fox had already visited. The problem of having shelter beside the fence. I was not happy about the loss of the day-old English Leicester ram lamb but at least there are quite a few this year. (said through gritted teeth)
Gave one of the older English Leicester ewes a helping hand after that. (Right about then I was feeling VERY happy about using a headlamp..!)
A couple of ram lambs later I went to observe a Drysdale having a set of twins and then I headed to the swag to try and get an hour or two of sleep.
Today was a lot of basic chores and so forgot to take photos.
This afternoon however there was a “disturbance” and it turned out that a Drysdale ewe had successfully stolen a Castledale lamb from a young mother. Lots of back and forth and rearranging of sheep mobs ensued to get the lamb back with its mother.
The confused mother was wrangled into the shed to sit in pen next to old Minty, who was doing Aunty-Demonstration.
Thankfully the mother and lamb appear to have sorted things out now.