3-17-14

Vikki and Mom came over to visit today.  The small boy lamb has diarrhea so we are giving him electrolytes and expressing milk from his mom.  Around 2pm Vikki went out to the barn to check the ewes, while I was making an apple pie.  She called to say a ewe was lambing.  Ewe #616 soon gave birth to a lamb.  Mom and Vikki got to watch.  I went in the house for a few things and by the time I came out the ewe had her second lamb.  She had and a girl and a boy.  They are doing very well.  One weighs 11lbs 2oz and the other is 11lbs 13oz.  Dad came over this evening and joined us for dinner.

Isaac helping me make a smoothie

Has anyone seen whitie (Adam's white blanket)?

3-16-14

This morning Jared went to town for coffee and papers.  He also stopped at meijer for a few things.  The bigger lamb was doing good, but the small one wasn't.   His temp would go down as soon as he was away from the heat. He had a really hard time learning to stand.   We gave the him an intraperitineal injection of a dextrose sol.  This lamb didn't survive.  We believe it had white muscle disease (a selenium deficiency).  The other lamb is doing very well with its mom.

3-15-14

This morning Jared and I went out to check on the ewes.  Ewe #82 had just lambed twins.  They were already standing.  She is our ewe that has had singles every years so we were surprised with the twins.  She had a boy (10 lbs 10 oz) and a girl (9 lbs 13 oz). Vikki and the kids came over to visit today.  Just before they left we noticed that #3 had a lot of discharge.  She is a new mom (and is small) so we went out to check on her every 15 min.  Around 2am she started pushing hard. She had twins that both came out in a normal position but were small. The mom was very nervous.  She didn't lick them much and they weren't trying to stand.  We couldn't get them to nurse so we tubed them each a couple oz of the mom's clostrum.  They were still very weak and cold.  The smallest one looked lifeless.  We spent a long time giving them a very warm bath to bring their temp up.  We spent the rest of the night working on these lambs. They were boys/girl weighing 6 lbs 2 oz and 4 lbs 3 oz.  Even after warming it took a long time for the small girl to put any weight on her rear legs.  When she did stand she trembled.

3-14-14

Adam's self portrait

Feeding time

Impression 5 came to the boys school today. They gave Jacob some ideas for a marble ramp.  He drew some plans and built one with Daddy.  The boys had lots of fun playing with that this evening.

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The lambs are due any day now!  The boys wanted to check as soon as they were home from school.