Thursday (4/19) ewe #37, who is herself only a year old had a single ewe lamb we tagged 58. This ewe (the mother, that is) did everything she could to turn this lamb into a bummer.
Although she did not reject the lamb outright she would not allow it to nurse.
We made a field jug out of a cattle panel in the corner of the pasture and penned them up. Then we put a rope halter on the mama and tied her to the fence so she could not stop the lamb from nursing. The lamb nursed this way several times a day for a couple of days before the mama allowed it to feed with out being tied up.
Ewe #415 also had a single on Thursday. She had a lamb last year, the first of the season as it happens. She had no problems and needed no help.
On Friday ewe #8, another yearling, had a single ram lamb that was tagged #5. She did fine and needed no help.
Saturday ewe #802 had twins, one male and one female, tagged 17 and 16 respectively. No problems.
Today (Sunday) ewe #437 had twins. She went off by herself under a tree to lamb, as they often do. By the time we noticed, one lamb was fine but the other was dead. Both were ewes, we tagged the survivor 18.
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