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Old 03-07-2010, 10:58 PM
 
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So sorry he did not make it. You are a kind soul to have tried so hard!
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Old 03-12-2010, 06:49 AM
 
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It's been a bad year for lambing. Lost about 1/3 of my lambs when 15% is the normal. Of all the lambs (lambing season is over now), I brought 3 inside hoping a lot of TLC would get them through and the wife joked that it was worse for them as all 3 died.

The last one was the worst, #225. He was a triplet and orphaned, went from bad, to good, back to bad and then came around again. Just when I thought he would pull through, he got real sick and died on the 7th day; a full week inside the house with every possible treatment for him. I swear I would have done reflexology on his hoofs if I thought it would have done some good. But yesterday morning I got up at 2 AM and he was in duress but alive, but after taking a shower I found he had died. :-(

But so it is. I am a man of God and at the beginning of every lambing season pray a lot for the lambs, put them in the Lord's hands and let his will be done, even though it is tough. Perhaps this lambing season was to show my little girl the cycle of life (she is 3) or maybe the wife what farm life is like...I don't know, but we'll make due with what we got, do things to improve lamb survivability in February and move on.

Life is good, even though many lambs did not make it. Just the way it is...I just wish I had the wisdom to know why?
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Old 03-12-2010, 06:53 AM
 
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Here is a picture of #225 inside our house in his make-shift barn; my daughters pop out Dora the Explorer tent! You got to be creative when you are a Maine Sheep Farmer!
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Old 03-12-2010, 09:17 AM
 
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Sorry to hear of your losses, BrokenTap. Wonder if little #225 got enough colostrum? For non-farm folk, colostrum is the nutrient rich first milk that all must drink to get the much-needed antibodies to bolster the animals immune system. I try to keep frozen goat colostrum on hand, as sometimes the mothers don't produce enough. If the babies don't get enough, they usually do pass on... And it is a heartbreaking affair to see a baby critter rally for life, then suddenly pass...
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