SPedigrees
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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!
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baymule
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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
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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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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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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.
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Little guy is doing better. With bottle feeding, he is stronger now. Yesterday I saw him stealing milk. She kicked him off, but he got a little milk. I was gone yesterday for hours. Came home expecting to find him with a hollow belly, but it had a small bulge, so he stole enough to not be starving. He is all white with one small brown spot on a hind leg, so Spot is his name.
I met Ridgetop (from BYH) and her husband on Thursday afternoon in Lufkin and she brought me her bander. They were passing through on their way to take tractor for repair and swing out to pick up their puppy before going home. I’ll band him because a bottle ram is dangerous.
I’m having a Thanksgiving/Christmas get together for some friends the first weekend of December. I invited Ridgetop and her husband to come too so we will have a lot of fun. My friends autistic daughter has been so excited about the lambs, she is going to get a kick out of bottle feeding the baby. They were here a month or so ago and since then she daily grilled her mother if I had lambs yet. I’ve sent lots of pictures but in another 2 weeks she will be able to hold a lamb and bottle feed him. I can’t wait to see her excitement!
I met Ridgetop (from BYH) and her husband on Thursday afternoon in Lufkin and she brought me her bander. They were passing through on their way to take tractor for repair and swing out to pick up their puppy before going home. I’ll band him because a bottle ram is dangerous.
I’m having a Thanksgiving/Christmas get together for some friends the first weekend of December. I invited Ridgetop and her husband to come too so we will have a lot of fun. My friends autistic daughter has been so excited about the lambs, she is going to get a kick out of bottle feeding the baby. They were here a month or so ago and since then she daily grilled her mother if I had lambs yet. I’ve sent lots of pictures but in another 2 weeks she will be able to hold a lamb and bottle feed him. I can’t wait to see her excitement!
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As a lamb, bottle rams are adorable. However, they grow up with no fear or respect for people and see people as equals and something to dominate. They dominate by ramming and bashing their opponent. Two Rams bashing heads together is ok, their skulls are built for it. A Ram bashing people can result in broken bones and serious injury. In the name of safety, Spot will lose his testicles.
SPedigrees
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That's a shame that you're being forced to bottle feed spot. It had sounded hopeful that Granny might accept him.
