Lost Lily

Unfourtunatly, we lost a very important part of our family on Monday. Lily, the mother of our twins, had to be put down. One of her hind legs gave out on her that night so we called the vet. She came and said that it was probably better if we put her down then instead of later. We had known this was coming since she lambed, but thought that we were going to have more time to prepair. No time would have been a good time for something like this but it was what was best for her. It was VERY hard to say good-bye. She will be in our hearts forever. We will be planting a Lily of the Vally plant in her memory.

       R.I.P Lily

Pictures!!

I have pictures! The lambs are getting big and bold!

This is our Creep Feeder

These are the Twins<3

Anton

The New Twins & Mom

Well, I have an update on the new twins and their mother. The twins are officially battle lambs as the mother is not phisically cabable of producing enough milk. They are growing big and are very sweet! We finally came up with names for them and they are Anton and Cody.
         As for the mother, she is not so well. The vet diagnost the ewe with a torn tendon. The tendon is called the Pre-Pubic Tendon and basically it sounds like it holds up her stomach and everything inside. She looks very lopsided and the vet said she is in pain. We have come to the conclusion that we will probably end up putting her down, whether it is in one month or six. She is getting medicine that is hopefully helping the pain and we hope she will stay pain free for as long as possible!

The Twins

   

 

                                             Twin #1                                           Twin #2

Well, at 6 o'clock this morning I was woken up by my mom saying that Lily's water had broken and she was in labor. I went down to find her pushing and straining. Mom and I, both knowing that we had to give it some time, went back up to the house to contact our vet. She said to check her cervix and see if she was dialated. So we checked and found she was not nearly dialated enouh to give birth. We went back up to the house and updated our vet on what was happening. She said to check her again in a while. We checked her again and no progress. At that point we asked our vet to come to our house ad help us in person. We ended up having to pull both lambs out. My vet pulled the first one and I, the second. They are twin ram lambs and the first one weiged 15.4lbs and the second one weiged 13.7lbs. No names yet but they are soon to come!

Reidar

This is second lamb born an the farm. He was born on March 1st from our ewe Iris. He weighed 14.4 pounds when he was born. He had some what of a difficult birth because of his size but was able to come out just fine! I am so happy to have him in my flock.