SPedigrees
Garden Addicted
Oh my word! I cannot imagine trying to cope with this craziness. Are these lambs Granny's first? At any rate I'm glad she seems to finally be accepting the babies as her own. What an ordeal!
Baymule’s Farm
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baymule
Garden Master
Thanks. I guess it would have helped if I had actually posted the link!
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baymule
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Granny only likes the ewe lamb. I will tie her up each day for a couple of weeks, untied at night. If she still doesn’t accept the ram lamb, I’ll get him started on bottle feeding and put him up for sale on Craigslist.
Granny will get one more chance. I’ll breed her one more time. If she does this again, she’s gone.
Granny will get one more chance. I’ll breed her one more time. If she does this again, she’s gone.
Dahlia
Deeply Rooted
What causes that to happen where the mother doesn't want one of her lambs? Maybe she thinks it's not hers?
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baymule
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Sometimes the first born gets shoved aside while the mother lavishes care on the second born. Then she doesn’t recognize the first born as hers.
I’ve tied Granny up, fought with her and forced her to stand for the ram lamb. But she had another trick, she wouldn’t let her milk down. Yesterday afternoon until dark, I gave him 3 bottles. I’m going to bottle feed him a week or so, them probably put him for sale on Craigslist.
Granny is being an excellent mother to the ewe lamb. The ewe lamb is fat and always has a full tummy.
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baymule
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My son is in from a job. He starts another one in west Texas December 1 and will be gone 4 months. He has a 100 HP Kubota that he had hydraulic lines run for a grapple. WHOOP! He’s cleaning up my back field and mowing it too. I’ll be working on cleaning up the back fence line this winter. I really need this field, but haven’t been able to use it because of the bad fence.
