Down Mulberry Lane
A New Season of Lambing...Our new season of lambing has begun. All is going well, despite the cruel weather! We had one lamb about a week early... in the below freezing weather. I think the weather was hard on her. She ended up with mastitis (which we bought 5 ewes two years ago and all have had some sort of trouble... not a good purchase at all!). She lost her ram, but the ewe is still doing well and mom has enough milk on one side to provide for the one lamb. Today we had 3 more lamb, all with twins, all large babies and doing quite well. There is absolutely no sign of selenium deficiency at all. I am SOOO relieved as is Dh. Dh prayed with thanks over this tonight and asked that this blessing continue throughout the lambing season... we all agreed. However, tomorrow we have windchills nearing 40 below again... what is with the weather? So all these new lambs are out to face a really cold day tonight/tomorrow and tomorrow night. We will have to keep a close watch on them. Wish I had some of those goat sweaters that Crystal uses on her goats. We've never used them on the sheep... they don't need them, but 40 below??? They could probably use them tomorrow! We have nearly 80 ewes that were to lamb. We are selling a few bred lambs, so it will be less here on the farm. So, you can see, we still have quite a ways to go with lambing. Our dates are throughout February and March. Warmly, ~Melissa
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