Well yesterday was exhausting. The final ewe had her lambs right in the middle of me pulling out sponges and giving shots to the ewes that will be bred on Friday. I thought she looked like perhaps she had a single or at best twins. No, triplets. One she must have had in one corner and then had another, forgot about the first then another. But the last little girl is all crooked. She could not stand. So I unfroze some of the cow colostrum. It is not easy to get cubes of colostrum out of an ice cube tray. Anyway I can’t believe the strength in this little girl. She sucked on the bottle and I got her standing 
She is all well just odd. But she wants to live and even at not even one day old has been bouncing around with the others. So now I have 6 bottle babies!
And I don’t know how I got through giving the shots. Bil made me a head lock to hold the ewes while I did each one. I had to write down the order and do it in groups. The ewes did not want any part of it, but some how I found the strength, perhaps the same strength that the little girl has to get through it. I finally got to bed at 4.30am. Got up at 8am and I just don’t know how I do it!
Oh, and the storm finally hit last night. Got a break now for a few days….
If you go to Lynett’s blog she has the photo’s from the children coming up to see the lambs yesterday too.
All for now.
Even though she is ‘all wrong’ in the hind end she is very cute. How could you not love that face? What is her name?
Comment by Lynette McKnitter — October 11, 2007 @ 7:47 am