7 DAYS OF LAMBING: DAY THREE (HER LAST LAMBING...HOW OLD is she??): Vlog 349

oh god [Applause] are you cute we have had 38 lambs today so she's nine years old i tell you i wouldn't have been able to do it [Music] [Applause] [Music] ah [Music] morning guys i had very good intentions of being out here very early i woke up at 4 30 got to the barn forgot my camera so i ran back in i think tomorrow i'm gonna have to get up at four there was quite a few wet lambs on the ground waiting for me to figure out their life so this morning we've already had 12 lambs 12 lambs and 1 2 3 4 5 u's so how about i just let you meet meet our new little arrivals there one there three here and this little guy um is kind of i think just the way he was inside mom he's a little bit it's got some tremors and and uh it's really it it can't get up so i tubed it this morning and i got a new tube and i want to show you guys so remind me remind me to show you guys that and for four here and two here so we're getting there so last night remember i said i was going to set up a whole bunch of pens just to be ready for lambing so i set up two extras i had to build one two three four five i had to buy i had to build five more even beyond that i kind of knew last night there was a few that looked like they had dropped and uh so i don't know i the next few days could be busy and then we might have a little bit of a reprieve these use were cedared so they were synchronized so that's why they're all coming at the same time their due date is between today and wednesday and uh so yeah saturday being the first day so i had 17 saturday 17 yesterday and i've already had 12 today uh lambs out of one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen twenty one u's i think so there's eighty ish left eighty five left something like that 86 it is about 5 30. i'm gonna run in and have another coffee and edit yesterday's video carissa will be here in an hour to top off babies and then i am on the search for some milk replacer so i can get that machine going she is going to train the babies that were born saturday that's going to put on the machine and then yesterday's babies will go on either tonight or tomorrow morning i'll just have to judge how that all looks because they all need tagged but it looks like we're going to have some every day that's probably going to need to be go on that machine the good thing is there's more than just one i hate setting up that machine for just a couple when you the more lambs you have on it the quicker they get on it and the milk stays warm because there's always there's always lambs nursing my morning deliveries well we've been busy there's been lots of babies so i ran to town and got some milk replacer so i have my i have my machine all hooked up cleaned out calibrated ready to go and i'm going to now do some i'm gonna take down some of these laming pens and make a a community pen for the mums and the babies and then uh start building a bottle baby pen for carissa to spend basically most of the day just training these lamps [Music] [Applause] [Music] ah [Applause] uh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] ah [Applause] [Applause] uh [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] yes uh um um [Music] um [Applause] uh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] um [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] okay i'm gonna move her into a pen she's just a little leery this one's good oh there she goes there she goes there she went okay i'm gonna move these guys [Music] ah [Music] what are aah doing oh god are you cute well you guys it has been such a busy day i haven't really had time to pick up the camera too too much we have had 38 lambs today two sets of quads um i think only one set of triplets today a lot more twins today and a few singles but today's big project was to get the smoke machine hooked up and ready to go the hardest part is figuring out which ones to pull from mom and what we do is just pull the best drinker so a lot of people will pull like if there's three lambs say one is really big and the other two are a little smaller sometimes they pull the big one um but what i do is i just i tell karissa grab a bottle see which one drinks the best pull the one that drinks the best off they're typically the easiest to train on the machine the other thing we do is we try to wait till they're good and hungry so tonight they're probably not going to drink a whole lot because they have been with mom most of the day so she will try to get them on the machine she's tried for like the last hour she's worked with them and then what will happen is tomorrow morning when she comes in they're going to be good and hungry so they'll probably go on the machine a lot better so that's kind of our plan but the good thing is they've been 24 hours with their mom at least some of them have been longer so they've had their colostrum they've had lots of milk so they've got a little bit of reserve to get onto that machine to let them get hungry enough to go you don't want them to be just fresh newly born and then and not get any of mom's colostrum or any reserves because you just have to really really make sure they take that machine those are the lucky ones and the one i tubed this morning it was up and standing when i came back in after breakfast and then i fed it a bottle drank the bottle but what happened is the mom rejected it so she was being really mean to it but i grabbed it put it in here and i told chris i just keep feeding it colostrum but she said it found it found the machine all on its own so it's really cute chris is just feeding um she's going through feeding all the multiples [Music] foreign [Music] um [Music] oh boy they are loud okay one more one more walk through it's after eight it is chilly it's supposed to get really cold tonight oh my god these lamps i can watch them for hours they're so cute they jumping around they get little jumping beans this time of night i'm trying to see what the best way for you guys to actually get a feel for how many lambs we've had in three days it is crazy and if i didn't have carissa i tell you i wouldn't have been able to do it all right i'm gonna get up here and show you guys just how crazy this has been so one four one three two two i think two yeah two four two here one here two here snuggled up with mommy two here mom eating trying you seeing honey you're hungry one little i'm so happy [Music] two two two one oh there's a story with this you so this you is one of my original ones i bought her in 2012 and she was already a year old so she was born in 2011 so she's nine years old now this will be your last lamb and she's so sweet but she is she's only giving milk on one side so this will be your last lamb so she had she had one that looks exactly like her hi honey hey say hi hello hello you're so sweet you look just like your mom hi yeah you're nice you're a nice is that your baby sure you did good mom [Music] yeah one here she was marked for two so she only had one and two so that's today's lambs and that's what we got left i'm gonna try tomorrow morning gonna try and get up at four this morning i got up at 4 30 so i'm just going to keep working back a half an hour grab a coffee to go that's usually what i do is just grab a coffee to go come out here just put anything in pens that i have ready i don't have any pens ready tonight i'm actually running running kind of short probably what i'll do in the morning if there's any that aren't gonna lamb i'm probably gonna actually take some of the tagged animals out into the bigger pen and then and then just reuse their pens because i'm getting tight for space with these ladies it's amazing what happens in the dark sheep left to their own devices well guys i think that's it for me it's an earlier earlier morning tomorrow so i definitely need to get some sleep but uh yeah this is today's have a really good night and we will see you tomorrow

Channel: Sandi Brock

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Length: 22min 43sec (1363 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 15 2020