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You are here: Home / Blog / LambMetrics – 11th August 2020

LambMetrics – 11th August 2020

August 11, 2020 by Wendy Beer

#LAMBMETRICS for the day

Drysdale & English Leicester Flocks

Born today: 0
Total Lambs Born: 39
Drysdale lambs (live total): 18
English Leicester lambs (live total): 12
English Leicester X lambs (live total): 5
Total Sets of Twins born: 11
Total Sets of Triplets born: 1
Total ewe lambs: 20
Total ram lambs: 19
Ewes lambed /76: 26  (34.2 %)
Lamb % : 134 % [live]
Assisted/Dystocias: 5
Losses: 4 [lamb]; 0 [ewe]

Notable Midwifery tales:

No new lambs today! The Drysdales are obviously in the “gap” that I wanted and the English Leicesters must have decided to forgo lambing in sunshine so that they can lamb in the rain tomorrow…. hmmmm

So, here’s a pic of Poppy today getting big and strong in the sunshine thanks to her foster-mum Boadicea.

In other news, an English Leicester ewe that lambed the other day and lost one of her twins at birth is needing me to milk her once a day to reduce her load and reduce her mastitis risk. Her lamb, after working out the huge titties, can’t drink it all and the udder is huuuuuuge. I took over 300ml off her today (which Bibbi and Bobbi thought was very tasty!)

The ewe that had the prolapse – well, I finally managed to jerry-rig something that seems to be working at keeping everything “in place”. She’s been a tough cookie and hopefully now her system can settle down and stay where it is supposed to! I still need to make a few tweaks to her harness but it looks very fetching. I’m just happy she’s eating and drinking!!

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