#LAMBMETRICS for the day
Drysdale & English Leicester Flocks
Born today: 4
Total Lambs Born: 107
Drysdale lambs (live total): 48
English Leicester lambs (live total): 36
English Leicester X lambs (live total): 13
Total Sets of Twins born: 35
Total Sets of Triplets born: 0
Total ewe lambs: 52
Total ram lambs: 54
Ewes lambed /70: 69 (98.5 %)
Lamb % : 140 % [live]
Assisted/Dystocias: 11
Losses: 9 [lamb]; 0 [ewe]
Castledale & Merino Flocks
Born today: 3
Total Lambs Born: 95
MerinoX lambs (live total): 19
Castledale lambs (live total): 67
Total Sets of Twins born: 36
Total Sets of Triplets born: 0
Ewes lambed /62: 57 (91.9 %)
Lamb % : 151% [live]
Assisted/Dystocias: 2
Losses: 7 [lamb]; 0 [ewe]
NOTABLE MIDWIFERY TALES:
Home stretch now….
Plenty of rain overnight and today. The sheep weren’t very happy with it – they’ve been enjoying the recent sunshine and perfect lambing weather!
The second to last English Leicester ewe finally lambed this afternoon. A relief since she was pregnant to the ram who seems to have been throwing large lambs and we won’t have to do 2am checks on her any more!
The remaining English Leicester ewe is a maiden so could lamb tomorrow or could wait several days.
The bottle-raised lambs are doing well. More on them later…. in the meantime here are a couple of pics. 🙂
