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[Kate Barrett]

Thom: 
How is the snow now?? You are so patient!! After my experience of an exhausted ewe who had 2/3 of the triplets still inside for over 4 hours, I just don't wait that long any more.  I pulled out a twin dorset X  , whose mother had pretty well given up, and with one of the Jacobs, I needed to push back the second twins head, and straighten out the front legs, and then what the heck, I gave her a little assistance.  They are all fine, but it took my triplet mom so long to recuperate, I just didn't want to go through that with these other moms. Maybe I am over eager??  I gave all of them about an hour and 1/2, and then started "helping"  Do the rest of you just wait and see???
I am late for work nearly every morning this last few weeks watching the lamb races.  It is just so funny to watch the 12 of them race and jump and butt each other.  I just stay a little longer in the office once I get there.  They are only this rambunctious for such a short while, and it makes all that lost sleep seem so insignificant!
Kate Barrett
Ruby Peak Jacobs   
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Thomas Simmons <creagchild at monad.net>
    To: jacob-list <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
    Date: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 6:18 PM
    Subject: [Jacob-list] Yahoo! (not the net company)
    
    
    Well, my dear old Marilla finally gave birth - 152 days after the observed breeding! (I'm so glad everyone decided to wait until I was homebound from snow to start dropping lambs!)
     
    Thanks to Joan Horak for coaching me through this one:  Marilla's water broke at 3:00 pm this afternoon; the front hooves of the lamb were sticking out at 6:00 pm, and in spite of all the grunting and pushing, that's pretty much how things stayed until 7:45 when the head finally came out.  She was pushing maybe a 1 1/2 minutes apart for a LONG time, and 15 minutes ago we finally delivered.....A HUGE ram, with two horn buds that i swear are bigger than his hooves! 
     
    For those of you who bought some of Dan Kennedy's PEI flock, Marilla was one of those ewes.  She is 4H, about 85% dark, with blue eyes and a thin "mustache" that connects her muzzle patch to her two eye patches.  She was bred by Levi, a 50/50 4H ram with brown eyes.
     
    The ram they produced must be 85% - perhaps 90% - dark, but with very white legs and *blue* eyes.  He hit the hay and promptly stood up and started checking out everything in the barn!  Marilla is still fat, and i'm wondering if I'm going to find another little one in an hour or so;  and these horn buds are so huge - and both parents so strongly 4-horned - I'm wondering of these are really fused bases and there are more than two horns here..hmmmm......
     
    thom
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