Linking up with friends at:
Homestead Barn Hop,The Backyard Farming Connection,
 Camera Critters,  Farmgirl Friday,
More Lamb Love…
Tag Archives: Lambing
Bleary-eyed but here…
The perk benefit of staying up all night with ewes in labor? Â Enjoying a gorgeous Montana sunrise…
Victoria with her new ewe lamb, Gypsy.
Lots of watching, waiting and coffee…
Gypsy
Black sheep of the family.
Carly’s lamb pile-up!
Garrett getting a little snuggle…
Another pile-up!
Going strong!
Momma, I found this comfy, warm bed just for me!
Going for a ride and getting weighed in the bag.
Jug crawler…
Never off duty…
Wait for me mommy…
Beautiful badgerfaced ewe lamb.
Lamb kisses.
Handsome Gotland/Icelandic cross.
Stare down.
Hide out.
Is she gone?
Lamb love!
Gia and her momma.
Pregnant…
Freckles
Run, jump and play!
Sunning himself.
Love his smile!
Tiny set of twins.
Flashy boys.
Lots of stormy skies lately…
Linking up with friends at:
LITTLE THINGS THURSDAY
Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop
Skywatch Friday
Homestead Barn Hop,The Backyard Farming Connection,
 Camera Critters,  Farmgirl Friday,
Â
Fabulous Day…
We spent a wonderful spring day moving sheds to the lambing paddock. Â Only a week left until we should start seeing lambs!
While dad moved sheds the kids had wheelbarrow rides…
The sheep romped…
and ate…
Dugur watched…
and the chickens did… chicken things.
Linking up with friends at:
Homestead Barn Hop,The Backyard Farming Connection,
 Camera Critters,  Farmgirl Friday,
Â
First Taste of Spring…
We’ve had our first taste of Spring this year! Â Finally, the four Suffolk ewes we had bred last fall lambed. Â They were all a week later than expected but it worked out wonderfully as the week they were due we had temperatures 20 to 30 below zero with lots of snow. Â The temperatures have shifted to the high 30’s and low 40’s, a bit better for lambing in. Â Smart mamas!
The first ewe to lamb was Garrett’s ewe, Velma. Â She had no problems and lambed in front of a large audience, giving birth to a large, single, ram lamb
The next ewe to lamb was Teigen’s ewe, Cookie, she is a yearling and it was her first time lambing.  Sometime in the wee hours of the morning she gave birth.   When I went to check the ewes in the morning, Teigen’s ewe was out standing with a little lamb beside it and then my eye caught a little lump in the snow.  When I went closer I found another lamb, I thought she was dead and then she moved just a bit…wow…made me go into hyper-drive. She was sooo cold, cold mouth, body, etc. I couldn’t believe she was still alive. She had the full spa treatment…warm water soak while in a garbage sack to retain all of the mama’s smells, tubed with mama’s milk, then on to a warming box with a hairdryer, and eventually a warm rice sock on the belly and she gradually came to life. She started to nuzzle and looking for something to eat and drank most of her bottle…
And as things typically go in our house, the recycling had just been taken out and the only bottle we could find was a 2 liter bottle! Â But it did the trick…
The kids have affectionately named her Elsa from the movie Frozen.  Elsa, eventually tried out her little legs and then did some more snuggling with the rice sock. When she woke up and she was hungry and her temperature was back to normal, so she was reunited with mom and brother.  The mom ended up taking  her back no problems, let her nurse and all is well!
The next one to lamb was Maddie’s ewe, Wild…
Again with a full audience hanging out in the feed bunk…
Two onlookers…
The second little ewe lamb was having a bit of trouble breathing so I was busy using a nasal syringe  to help clear the mucous from her throat. 
A nice set of twins, one ram and one ewe!
Garrett and Emmy watching…
Then Sunday morning we were greeted with this…
A strong, healthy ewe lamb. Â Dried off and had a full belly!
Now we have a few weeks off until the Icelandics start their run. Â Which will mean long days and short nights. But I look forward to it all year! Â Hopefully the Icelandics have as good of a run as the Suffolks did.
Coming Soon…
Linking up with friends at:
Homestead Barn Hop,The Backyard Farming Connection,
 Camera Critters,  Farmgirl Friday,
Â
Pulling a lamb…
Hayden has become quite the helper around here this lambing season. Â He loves all aspects of lambing, even when things are going quite right. Â He has witnessed two cesarean sections that were performed on ewes this year. Â He has stayed up several times to the wee hours of the morning, assisting in lambing. Â He fights with his older siblings over who gets to help pull the lambs.
Here, Fiona, was having just a bit of difficulty getting this big ram lamb out. Â Tori is showing Hayden what to do. Â I like letting the kids help when it is not a crisis. Â Then hopefully when there is a one, we can handle it better…
One leg out and untangled…
Working on the other slippery one…
Pulling…
Both legs out and we can see the face and if you look close, horn buds through the perineal area…
Free!
Mama getting him all cleaned up…
Together with his sister.
Linking up with friends at:
 Homestead Barn Hop,The Backyard Farming Connection,
  
More Lambs…
About 65 ewes down and 10 to go! Â Here are some of the lambs we’ve had this week…
Sharing with friends on:
       
Camera Critters
Little ewe…
This little ewe lamb was born just a bit before noon.  She’s just a wee-little-thing.  Maybe 3 lbs.  Tori helped her get her stomach full of colostrum by syringe feeding her. 
After getting a full belly we left baby and mom alone. Â When we went to check on them a half hour later the little ewe had figured out how to stand and nurse from her mama, all on her own!
Linking up with friends at:
Â
  Homestead Barn Hop,The Backyard Farming Connection,
Camera Critters
Daily Dose of Cuteness…
Linking up with friends at:
Â
  Homestead Barn Hop,The Backyard Farming Connection,
Camera Critters
Delightful…
Delight this morning…
Tori went out to check mamas at lunch and found Delight on her back and legs flailing. Tori was able to get her turned over right away and when Delight stood up she noticed she was starting to go into labor. Â Thankful for observant young ladies today!
Felicity getting something to eat…
A beautiful black spotted ewe lamb.
Warming up under the heat lamp…
❤ Felicity ❤ Love the heart pattern on her nose.
Linking up with friends at:
 Homestead Barn Hop
Blissful…
Bliss, our pretty blue ewe…
Her twins!
When we did our midnight check last night, I could hear babies crying loudly and knew something was up. Thor, our Akbash LGD, was guarding one of the hoop houses and when I shined my light in there I found these two treasures up and trying to nurse. I thought it was pretty neat to see Thor protecting Bliss and her babies. Thor had to stop by and see how things were this morning. 
Chunky ram lamb. He is a spotted grey moorit (brown).
Nice chunky ewe lamb. She is solid black!
Who will be the next to lamb? Perhaps Delight?
The other lambs received their BoSe supplements and are now sporting tags.
Miss Fern making herself comfy in her mom’s feeder…
Finn and Fern sporting their new eartags…
Little Fleur and her pretty purple tag…
Freyja snoozing with mom, Freckles…
Mr Flint sporting his flashy yellow tag!
Linking up with friends at:
Â
  Homestead Barn Hop,The Backyard Farming Connection
Dancing Aspens Farm Blog 