2-2-17

Star is doing great

Around 1:00 today I called Jared because Ewe #82 was lambing.  He hurried home and made it before she lambed.  Her large lamb was coming hind feet first so we needed to help.  When they come this way they can get stuck at about halfway and the umbilical can get pinched.  This causes the lamb to inhale mucous if it tries to breath.  The mom was very nervous and turned around when I was pulling the lamb.  Then, when the lamb was about halfway out, she decided to sits down.  The lamb still seemed to come pretty quickly but wasn't breathing too well.  We swung it by its legs in case it swallowed mucous.  We worked on this lamb for about 1 1/2 hrs but it didn't make it.  We were so very bummed.  This mom was really trying to get her lamb up and I felt really bad for her.  Later we turned her loose and she was convinced her lamb was in the stall with ewe #33.  Jared was checking on #33's lamb and I was looking in the door when #82 came and butted me hard.  She really wanted in that stall to look for her lamb.