the day I had to walk away. VLOGMAS 2020: Vlog 397

five babies one two three four five okay she's absolutely crazy the lamb is so big she's laying down to drink i am so happy i know i have something going on in here i had a pretty tough loss there's a little story behind this one literally walked again in front of our eyes and i didn't think it would work but i feel like every time i have a good day then i have a really bad day [Music] merry christmas what's that she already beat you outside [Music] wow [Music] [Music] [Music] uh [Music] so [Music] merry christmas you guys this must be the gift from them they did not land overnight there is no new lambs this morning i am just going to be able to make sure my bottle babies are drinking and then go in the house and open gifts like a normal person which is crazy so i am on chore duty today so i will bring you guys back out after uh breakfast and opening gifts with the family i just want to make sure everybody's okay uh before i take a couple hours off it's looking like i got the reprieve that i was hoping for so i hope everyone has a great day today [Music] this is maybe my most favorite tradition lucy yeah did she bite it no oh she's got the wire squeaky shoes nice kicks they're so small yeah it's a trick happy with your haul yeah it's been pretty decent some tools yeah and a shirt sure is the youtuber honest tech tips minus tech tips yep cool lttstore.com plug book his merch oh i ate too much and then i checked my cameras and realized i think i got a few lambs on the ground oh moving's gonna be tricky hi guys thanks for waiting oh boy there's four lambs on the ground okay two mamas all right i think we can do this we can do this five babies one two three four five all right let's deal with business here so i think we got him figured out she's marked for twins but i think she had three or she played one she's marked for three she's claimed two and everybody's happy she has more milk anyway so i'm gonna let this happen i'm making a management decision we'll see how mums are when their [Applause] chill in like an hour [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] it's christmas night we've had a great day uh really no lamb since this morning except for my triplets turned into quads so oh so that was a little surprise but i was just about to make supper and i noticed we have a lamb in the camera there it is well where's your mom it's all by itself [Applause] your mom having a baby is that why you're by yourself [Applause] right here does she not like you hello mom that's your baby that's your baby oh seriously yeah your mom sucks well hi honey let's go to the let's go and then i'll get her after how's that sound [Applause] okay hopefully hopefully we can get her down here and love you okay she's absolutely crazy so i'm gonna get a halter and see if i can get this lamb drinking but love your baby [Music] that's your baby yep you're fine i love your baby [Applause] i have one more idea so i'll try to explain this without freaking her out too i had one other idea i brought the halter and a bottle for it in case she wasn't gonna relax um but she had a little bit of cleaning still hanging out of her so what i actually did is i gloved up again and i actually did an internal honor just to kind of and i moved my hand around a bit so she thought she was kind of getting kind of giving birth again so she kind of contracted my hand out it was kind of a hail mary but and then whatever i could get on my glove i just wiped on the lamb on her head and on her back end and on her belly because that's the three areas if this u gives a detention that's likely where she's gonna smell it and if she could smell herself fresh on that lamb you got a little better chance of bonding so she likes to be milked which is a bonus the lamb is so big she's laying down to drink okay it's off now so let's see if she lets it get back on into it i fed a little bit of bottle just just because i'm gonna run back to the house for a couple hours and i'm gonna come back out and check her but i'm going to let them kind of she's really quiet now the use quieted right down which is a miracle he knows where everything is he's just really big so he's having a hard time getting down and onto the teeth because the u is small and the lamb is big so the math is a bit off but it's got some milk in its tummy and mom has settled down so i'm gonna let them be for a couple hours but i'm gonna come back and check them well guys it's my bedtime it's like nine o'clock i just came back to make sure this u has bonded with this lamb and i've been secretly watching them from my nest cameras and they have bonded so i am so happy [Applause] so they are good and i even think she licked the rest of it off which is just unbelievable however when i got out here uh a couple minutes ago that you over there um had just given birth to a stillborn another stillborn lamb first one of three so all three i brought her in here after she delivered she delivered on her own the first one and then i put her in this pen because i'm like she was marked for two i pulled out two more and they were full size big poles because when a lamb is dead and you're trying to deliver them they just they they don't help so poor mom she was contracting really well but they were big lambs so i have i have some medicam here i'm just gonna give her a painkiller and just let her stay in the stay in there all night hopefully she'll be feeling a little more herself but uh yeah that's three like triplets it's i i know i have something going on in here and i wish it wasn't christmas because i'd be maybe getting some some of these lambs into the lab for testing i'd like to be able to pinpoint it to something because it's getting now it's just getting like i go through a couple days of really good lambing with nothing and then i have a day like this that i lose three and one you so anyway i'm gonna give her a needle i'm gonna fill up some water pails and then i'm gonna sign off for tonight good morning noah come here bye oh you guys all want to say hi good morning it is boxing day it is saturday i think and it's someone's very special day today good morning ellie what are you saying what's today is today your birthday yes it is it's your birthday [Music] so yeah my belly was born a year ago this morning we just we had a we had a set of triplets from a first time u they were all over there was one in the back corner one right near the lambing pens and one on the other side of the gate [Music] and settle down now so my ears up and looking a lot better this morning she was the one that had the stillborn triplets and this couple is still united hi but that is it that's all that's left for the first time all lambing the slamming group i i had to actually go to the house this morning like i had to leave the barn i had a pretty tough loss i've been trying to keep pretty upbeat but the slammy's been really frustrating i feel like it's been a roller coaster of emotion from the very first lamb that drops and you hear that the little tiny little ball for the first time i i don't know if it's a woman thing or if guys feel this too when they're lambing but that first little coup from a lamb is like it just it gets you in all the feels from the very first set of lambs i've had some issues but i feel like every time i have a good day then i have a really bad day yeah i lost a lamb i it got stuck during delivery it was huge single lamb i got a leg out it took me forever to get the head out i finally got the head out with lots of lube it was alive like i was i was like begging it to stay alive and it took too long i couldn't get it out and uh it's frustrating and when i finally got it out and tried to revive it it was too late it was gasping and it just never took a breath so it stays like that that i need to like i need to look at the rest and see how many how many have made it and go in the house and talk to my family and just get talked off the ledge and uh and carry on but oh i hate those ones because you feel like you you feel like they die in your arms and it's a horrible feeling anyway today is billy's birthday so i am gonna go get him a little treat and try to be happy for a few minutes [Music] [Music] i got a treat for you i got a treat for you what do i got [Applause] you want some hay oh you just want some left hi hello baby happy birthday good morning you guys it's sunday and last night at nine o'clock i came back out there was a you laming i could see in the camera and same thing as yesterday afternoon like such a big pull and uh the u was actually going into shock so i was like i was freaking out because i'm like i can't lose two lamps today like in literally in my arms and uh but i but i got it out and it's doing really well so i'm gonna go and show you guys that little that little wind that i so needed last night and uh and then i'm on shore duty today because karissa is with her family i think today today is the day after boxing day yup so glad yesterday turned around i think just that lack of sleep catches up to you and and then you just you really have to talk yourself out of out of negative thoughts and situations so yesterday was just one of those days i just needed to i had a little bit of a nap and i watched a movie we went back to the cat the cabin for a little bit but i was just yeah i needed to walk away and regroup and then last night i had a little win [Music] so this was the first day since lambing started that i did not have to come out here at four uh one of the best things i ever did was get the nest cameras and the uh the app on my phone where i can turn on my lights so i got like two hours of extra sleep this morning so i feel a lot better but yeah we must be in the reprieve so when you cedar a group when i see your group there tends to be the first week tends to be really really busy because that's their first heat their first cycle and a lot of them usually catch their first cycle and then the remainers if they missed that heat or they didn't get bred or the or the breeding didn't if they just didn't conceive then they should come into heat about 17 days later so um this group was in two halves so whoever was in that first group they should be coming back into cycle basically 17 days from the 12th is the 29th is that right so in a couple more days that first group should start kind of trickling out some lambs and then about a week later the rest should land so over the next two weeks we should see the rest of this group lamb it's going to be very intermittent so it's nice because i have a pretty big couple really big groups that i can make a pen out of and that's kind of the point with the logistics of my pens probably today i will open this whole pen up it's all about logistics if you figure out your logistics when you're lambing it just makes life a lot easier and i do try i know what i do might not make sense to people but i what i the final thing is i'm trying to keep the lambs in there in their same age group so i the first couple pens were all born that first week so i want to always keep them in their own pen this second group was born the second week so they can have their own little pen and these guys are probably going to be spread over two weeks which isn't ideal but two weeks is okay i'm trying to miss that coxy cycle which i think is a three week thing that's the logic in my little brain no one really told me to do that i just kind of started doing that and it's been working my quads [Music] so [Music] do [Music] there's one more thing i keep forgetting to talk to you guys about and i want to talk to you guys about it because if you're a sheep farmer you may see this and i've had people tell me how to how to do it before but i never really actually have seen it with my own eyes and it worked so i want to talk a little bit about it but i gotta find this lamb he's itty bitty there it is okay right there that little itty bitty baby hey baby hi so there's a little story behind this one sweetie [Music] i guess it'd almost be two weeks ago now um after we had let it out in a pen it was it was not putting any weight on its back left leg i believe it was one put weight on it i i evaluated the leg but there was no break there was nothing visual or physical that i could feel that that would be why it would lim was limping um and then i wondered maybe if one of the yews just really took it for a ride like these use can get pretty mean and uh and run them really hard so i wonder maybe if she brews something and then a couple days later her other one did the same thing so she could not get up she was completely paralyzed at her back end she would try to get up and she the little thing the mom was so good uh she tried to still kind of feed it so i was like i don't know what to do carissa started feeding at the bottle just to make sure it got some and we didn't have much hope because i'm like i don't know what this is i don't know how it could have injured both legs like that and then i started thinking well maybe this is white muscle and i give them a selenium shot not supposed to help with that what i did is i gave her another shot and 24 hours later not a word of a lie it was up on its one leg so it was then it was walking at least it could drink out of mum so it was basically it had three legs working and then the day after that it was running around all four legs so literally walked again in front of our eyes and i didn't think it would work and carissa couldn't believe it so that is a huge win and i completely forgot all about it this is the thing you get so busy with all these little lives that um the ones that you lose are the ones you remember but the ones that you save all the time little ones big ones mean the world to us and we just forget about them right anyway i thought i would let you guys know that it's not all bad not always bad sometimes we have those wins so yeah so white muscle read the label on the bottle but um i think i gave it just another quarter cc because it wasn't two weeks old yet i think if they're two weeks old you have to give them a half a cc but it worked and i'm so glad i did it my babies look happy [Music] wow

Channel: Sandi Brock

Views: 128,607

Rating: 4.9601192 out of 5

Keywords: when lambs get stuck in delivery, why can't my lamb walk, treating white muscle disease in newborn lambs, dealing with issues during lambing season, lambing, lambing season, lambing indoors, winter lambing, how to prevent coccidiosis in newborn lambs, Sheepishly Me, Sandi Brock, sheep, sheep farming, sheep farmer, farming, Vlogmas 2020, Vlogmas, Christmas Day, Christmas on the farm, Christmas Morning

Id: nX8G_lY6yKc

Length: 24min 26sec (1466 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 28 2020