Mum is a hogget, and baby was 5.5kg!
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Another lamb! (2019 lambing - post #4)
Assisted the arrival of this ewe lamb this morning...
Mum is a hogget, and baby was 5.5kg!
Mum is a hogget, and baby was 5.5kg!
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Another lamb! (2019 lambing - post #3)
This
4kg ewe lamb was born to a hogget overnight last night - whether before
midnight (on the 17th) or after midnight (on the 18th), I'll never
quite know!
Meantime, the other lambs are getting older (oldest twins are a month old today, and the last two sets of twins were three weeks old yesterday)...
Our R2yr Jersey heifer calved (had a heifer calf) just over a week ago, and has needed milking twice a day as she had a lot of oedema & a hard udder... I'm also milking our older cow once a day.
Live has been pretty busy, and I was glad that none of the sheep lambed during all that! I have another 2yr old ewe yet to lamb and the rest of the hoggets - and it looks like ALL my hogget are going to lamb this season!
I think she looks moorit... at least, her wool &
face do... her legs are so dark that they look black - so it will be
interesting to see what she looks like in another week or two! The white
markings on her face look interesting too.
Meantime, the other lambs are getting older (oldest twins are a month old today, and the last two sets of twins were three weeks old yesterday)...
Our R2yr Jersey heifer calved (had a heifer calf) just over a week ago, and has needed milking twice a day as she had a lot of oedema & a hard udder... I'm also milking our older cow once a day.
Live has been pretty busy, and I was glad that none of the sheep lambed during all that! I have another 2yr old ewe yet to lamb and the rest of the hoggets - and it looks like ALL my hogget are going to lamb this season!