[Jacob-list] Lambs

[Linda]

Royal - hope all the problems came first and the rest of lambing will be a breeze!

Carl - do you put your groups together the same time every year?  I'm curious to what factors contribute to successful breedings.  Around here, I don't think I could get a breeding that would lead to January lamb if I tried. If I put them together early, some lambs will be born the middle of February, but most will wait until March. The only January Jacob lambs we've had were from a ewe that arrived here from Oregon already bred.  I breed for March lambs most years, which works the best for me.  Last lambing was the first year that we had all the ewes sheared before lambing. I'm sure going to keep on with that. Besides being easier to watch your pregnant ewes,the ewes are much calmer being shorn if they aren't screaming for their lambs. 

Yep, my ewes are all smarter than I am! 

Linda


 
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>     Really sorry to hear about your lambing problems Royal and sure

> hope the rest of your lambing goes better. I'm sure it will. Keep

> us all posted on Jana and Gabriella.

>    Last year our first lambs were on February 11Th. Some years they

> start lambing in January and some years in February. I didn't get

> time to take any photos of the new lambs here. Judy had me cutting

> boards for a bookcase between feeding and I didn't get the chickens

> finished until just before dark.

>    The ewe that I thought would be the first to lamb still hasn't

> lambed so you can see that they are smarter than I am and know what

> to do without me. We don't shut them up so they just lamb when and

> where they think is best. We did fall shear the pregnant ewes this

> year and so far I like it better.  


Carl

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