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devices for the next three weeks. By the time the ram was
removed in mid August, twelve ewes were pregnant. When he
was placed back with the flock in October, he had little to do.
The lambing has never gone smoother and the babies got
a good start before the cold spell in early January. However, I
observed an odd phenomenon: we have nine single births and
three sets of twins as compared to eight sets of twins, two sets
of triplets and two singles with our lambing in March 2016.
The difference in the profit line is dramatic, so I have learned
not to allow the ram with the ewes in the heat of summer since
multiple birthing is a priority.
It was sometime after New Year, when the weather had
turned frigid, that I noticed a lamb, hunched up and not
attached to a Mother. It would rush under a ewe for milk
only to get a sharp kick. I made up the powered formula and
grabbed my trusty bottle. Although the lamb obviously needed
help, it was not weak enough to be caught easily. I got the flock
in a relatively small area in the shed barn and put grain in the
feeders to distract their attention from my attempts to catch
the lamb. It worked and quickly I was successful in securing

it tightly between my calves. It fought the bottles for at least
twenty seconds until it tasted milk. It inhaled six ounces and
would have guzzled more. For the next three days I would have
to catch the lamb each feeding. I put a collar on it so I could
not mistake which one I was chasing. Finally "collar baby"
would timidly take the outstretched bottle. She did quite well
and began to nibble hay and grain. I still have not identified
her abandoning Mother. The intensity of required care in
winter versus late March makes birth control a high priority
in 2017.

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