Ewe #3 and her twins
I was talking to Vikki on the phone as I walked out to check on the ewes (around 11:00). I looked in the paddock and noticed that Ewe #3 had just delivered a lamb. I asked Vikki to call Jared. The ewe was licking her lamb. I slowly dragged the lamb by its hindlegs into a stall (with the ewe following and licking). I dried the lamb and took care of it. Soon a second lamb came and Jared got there just minutes later. This mom was really nervous. We gave her some time alone to lick and take care of her lambs but they weren't getting up. Jared held the ewe so I could pump some colostrum and we tubed the lambs. The first lamb is a girl (8.0 lbs) and the second a boy (7 lbs 7 oz). The girl lamb became very hypothermic. Jared brought in a heat lamb and his propane heater to help us warm her up in the stall. We worked on this lamb for over an hour. Jared headed back to work around 2:00. We tubed the lambs again before he left. The boys started nursing but I hadn't seen the girl nursing yet. We checked on them often and made sure they had warm mouths.
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