Day by Day

April 16, 2010

Sweet Pea's Lambs

We now have 6 little lambs running around in the "nursery"!

Sweet Pea lambed at around 11 o'clock on Tuesday night.

Baby girl

Baby boy - aka Squirt. Squirt is about half the size of his sister, and is our only ram lamb this year.

Napping in the sunshine - you can see how small Squirt (on the right) is compared to his sister.

Rubber banding one of Esther's lamb's tails.

I'm planning on keeping Lady Jane's lambs for breeding.

Cora and Rowena with Bonnie - Bonnie can't quite figure out why they don't want to play with her:)

Rowena (laying down) and Cora.

Esther's lambs, still no names - I'm still a trifle concerned about them. They just aren't gaining weight like they should and they're a bit lethargic too. I gave them an electrolyte drink with the syringe and they seemed to perk up a bit, so maybe that's all they needed.

I'm so thankful that lambing season it finally over. Now maybe I can get some sleep;)

Happy Trails!

April 10, 2010

More Girls!

This morning Esther gave birth to two beautiful ewe lambs!

Unfortunately, like all of Esther's lambs, they had White Muscles Disease (aka selenium deficiency). We gave them both a shot of selenium, but they're still pretty weak, although they're doing much better thanks to syringe feeding, heat lamps, and some moral support from the neighbors across the creek (the Murdocks).

Please pray that the lambs will continue to grow stronger, get enough to eat, that they will be warm tonight, and that God will give me the strength keep going.

A few pictures...

That's all for now folks - I've been waking up at all hours of the night for the past three nights to check on Esther, and I have a long, late night ahead of me, and my eyes are just about falling shut, so I need to lay down for a bit before I have to go outside again.

Happy Trails!:)