Cathy Lambed ~ April 9th, 2012!!

Monday morning, April 9th, 2012 it looked like she was in labor, so I was checking on her fairly often. Then about lunch time I looked at her and she was pushing so I looked closer and she had feet hanging out. I yelled back to mom at the house and told her. We watched and then a bit later she pushed the lamb out. It was a little black and white ram lamb. After she had him we thought that she was only going to have a single, but then a little later she had another lamb. It was also a little black and white ram lamb.


The sire to the lambs is a Painted Desert ram, named Eldorado and the dam to the lambs is one of our Painted Desert ewes, named Little Hills Cathy.


Here is a video of the birth ~

Here are some pictures ~

Kailas

Kailas is a BEAUTIFUL black and white Painted Desert ewe lamb of ours. She was born on February 7th, 2012 and is a single. She has excellent conformation and is built very nice and big for her age . . . just like her dam:) Her dam is a Painted Desert ewe of ours, Little Hills Zawiya and her sire is our Painted Desert ram, Eldorado. Both of her parents are in the process of being registered with the Painted Desert Sheep Society.

You can go here to see about her birth ~ http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2012/02/zawiya-lambed-february-7th-2012.html

Here are some pictures ~

Zawiya Lambed ~ February 7th, 2012!!

On Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 Zawiya lambed. I woke up around 6:00am to check on the pregnant ewes, and sure enough Zawiya had a BEAUTIFUL black and white ewe lamb. The sire is our Painted Desert ram, Eldorado and the dam is Zawiya. The lamb is able to be registered with the Painted Desert Sheep Society.

Here are some pictures ~

Appalachia Lambed ~ February 3rd, 2012

Well, sorry for being almost 3 weeks late, we have been very busy lambing out ewes, taking care of them and the rest of the animals, bottling lambs, and one of our friends had a baby.

Anyways, Appalachia went into labor after I got home on Friday from picking up the Icelandic sheep. We went over to our friend's house for a little bit and then when we came home around 9:30pm Appalachia had a bubble. We just stood there and watched her till about 10:05pm and then that bubble popped and another bubble appeared. Then a bit later another bubble showed up, so now there were 2 bubbles out. One or maybe both of the bubbles (I can't remember)  popped a little bit later. Now it was sometime between 10:30 and 10:40pm. It was starting to look like the lambs needed to be pulled out. So me, my sister and mom went in the jug. I felt first and felt that her opening was very tiny and she had a good sized lamb trying to come out . . . it was not going to work. So, I told my sister to do it, because she is much more experienced than I am:) My mom had to help her stretch her skin out some while my sister pulled the lamb out. They were able to get the lamb out, but it was pretty stuck. After that, we thought she had no more lambs, so we went inside and a little bit later my mom and I went to check on her just to make sure, and sure enough there was a breech lamb hanging out. So, my mom pulled it out, it was not really stuck. She had two beautiful black and white ram lambs.

The sire to the lambs is Eldorado, our Painted Desert ram. And the dam is Appalachia, one of our Painted Desert ewes. Both of the lambs are able to be registered with the Painted Desert Sheep Society.

Here are some pictures ~

The first bubble.

The two bubbles.

Me filling.

My sister doing it now.

Here is the second lamb being pulled out.

The first ram lamb.

The second ram lamb.

Emory lambed ~ September 21, 2011

Emory lambed to a single ewe lamb on Wednesday morning, September 21st, 2011. 


Wednesday morning I checked on Emory and her udder was real full, she had dropped and was having contractions . . . I kept checking on her fairly often and around 10:00am I checked her and sure enough there was two feet and a ton of mucus hanging out! So I ran inside and told mom that Emory had two feet hanging out. Mom and a few of my siblings came out, we tried several times to chase her into a smaller pen (just in case we had to pull the lamb out), BUT it did NOT work:) So we just decided to watch her for a little bit and see if she would get it out, we waited until about 10:30am . . . she kept pushing and pushing and pushing and it was NOT coming out fast enough. By the time it was 10:30am I (and a few others) started to wonder if the lamb was even still alive, so we went into high gear and got the majority of my family out there to chase Emory into a chute type thing and into a SMALL pen. We got her in the pen in one try. Right when we got her in the pen me, one of my brothers, one of my sisters and my mom went in there with her and caught Emory and mom pulled the lamb out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and PRAISE GOD the lamb was still alive and breathing!!! The lamb is a BEAUTIFUL big tri or quad colored ewe lamb . . . she is SOO cute!!  The sire to the lamb is one of our Painted Desert rams, named Little Hills Gomez and the dam is a Desert Sand ewe of ours, named Little Hills Emory.

Here are some pictures ~