General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...part 9 :-D, 1 by MaryE

MaryE wrote:
Hello everyone. Yes, busy busy busy. We are still in the middle of the annual lamb explosion. We went from slow to fast forward and that meant ff on my little 1am until whenever shift which turned into a much longer shift. Had some problems, one ewe must have a massive infection from a lamb that died inutero and we didn't know anything was wrong until she delivered a dead lamb early this morning. Another lamb died probably from having an extra tough sac over it and couldn't get out and the ewe was inexperienced and didn't go right to the head to clean it off. Just a guess there, sometimes we just never know. We had a set of triplets overnight and one of them was chilled so it needed a warm up under a heat lamp, then needed tube feeding. It is a very tiny lamb, I took a picture of it in the warming oven (barrel with heat lamp, nice and cozy). It will be raised as a bottle baby. By 4am we had 7 new lambs, a couple in various stages of labor, one downer who couldn't get up, the ruptured ewe still moving here and there, a hungry lamb in the barrel that didn't have the strength to walk through the straw bedding to nurse, and a couple of other miscellaneous things going on. I got up at 12:30 and still haven't slept, too much to do around here and I am not sleepy. I'll just go to bed a couple of hours earlier tonight and get caught up. Meanwhile, I do not have to look like I am awake.

It is quite windy here today, I hope it settles down before my barn shift tonight. Lambs can get really chilled in it and the temp is supposed to go below freezing again, normal for us but it has been so warm that is going to be a bit of a shock.

My computer screen is doing something wierd. About 3 days ago the vertical lines got crooked, and now the whole thing is sliding over to the left. So now I can't see who is posting but can still read the posts. I hope it doesn't mean we need to buy something new, but these things seem to have built in flaws designed to break right after the warranty is up. So, if I disappear, you will know the computer is in the shop or in the dump. See you later.

Oh, the picture, MAAAAAAAAAAAA!