Lambs' First Days: Bonding, Care, and Family Groups
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- Close monitoring of lambs in the early days is extremely important. Today on Ewetopia Farms, we dive into the critical first days of lambs' lives during winter lambing season. Starting with feeding routines and water management, we highlight the importance of claiming pens (or lambing jugs) in fostering mother-lamb bonding and ensuring the lambs' survival. Watch as we handle tagging, sorting, and addressing challenges like a ewe rejecting her lamb. From family group dynamics to playful lambs and frozen waterers, see how we navigate life on a busy sheep farm in Canada. Don’t miss the arrival of a new Dorset lamb, as the cycle of lambing continues. Join us for another eventful day of shepherding!
Join us for this exciting start to lambing season and see how we manage the challenges and joys of welcoming new life on the farm!
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Totally cute!
So glad all the moms and lambs are doing ok.❤️🐑
I just loved watching how the jugs work again! The new moms seem to love the time with their babies. You two are working so hard to make the sheep 🐑 healthy and comfortable and it's such a pleasure to watch! Have a wonderful Thursday and i hope you two find a moment to relax too. ❤🐑
Thank you so much for your kind words. We try to find time to relax between the long days! 😊
Good morning. It's funny Lynn left us in a cliffhanger. 😂 sry it's so cold, been there did that one. Not fun. Our beautiful great grand daughter gave us her cold, now hubby and I sick. Can't go to Indy to help our daughter with our son in law cancer. First.
Radiation treatment today. New tumor, I clean house. Love you guys. Stay safe. ❤ Hugs
Colds are so annoying but better to stay away until it clears up before heading out to support your family. Here's wishing you all the best of luck. Sounds like very rough times 🥰
❤ sorry x a bunch! Colds stink!
@justinanovak8040 it sure does
@EwetopiaFarms Thank you. Oh! Yes we are. He is getting weak, praying it makes it to May 23rd. His son graduation. That's his goal. Watching you and Arnie has been a blessing to me. Growing up, I was a farm girl. Leaving in the county just have chickens, and my 20 some deer that show up to the clover field next to us. Love you
Do you feed the deer or just watch them?@@bettydexter1016
at 35:00 Ernie asks "Why would Lambs like to be n a nest that high up." which reminds me of a bit of upcycling I recently did. My goats are currently kidding, and we have cat towers in our home that we periodically replace But they have little wooden carpet covered boxes as part of their structure, so I usually save those to make an unofficial cat tower. But then I have all these miniature goats hanging out with the sheep, and their babies are teeny tiny compared to the sheep. So I thought, "maybe they'll sleep in the carpet covered wooden boxes with entrance holes... and sure enough, the baby goats have igured out that the most comfortable safe place is to hang out where cats once hung out. So you guys have lambs in nests and I have kids in cat towers. But it works!
@@LadyLithias That’s just awesome!😁🥰🥰
@@EwetopiaFarms We just got our first snow since Christmas, and when I went down to check out the sheep and goats, the newest baby goat (think of a Chihuahua puppy, teeny tiny), he figured out where the one-week-older triplets were snuggled together in one of the boxes, and he squished himself in there. Nice and warm and toasty.
I also noticed today that suddenly most of my ewes are starting to show some udder development. I'm thinking that puts them about a month out. I originally scheduled them to be bred so they'd lamb around early March. Then I thought the ram was a dud, so after 7 weeks, I put another ram in with them. But now I'm thinking that they wouldn't be bagging up if they were 12 weeks out from lambing.
Anyway, been loving your content. Unfortunately the only time I can watch it during the work day is when the firewall breaks and allows me in. (usually that's a few hours into the day.... every day). :)
@LadyLithias you have no internet at home? 🥰🥰
@@EwetopiaFarms No I have it at home. I got used to several years of waking up, going to work, watching Ewetopia Farms, and then diving into my school work. It's hard to change old habits. Particularly when "at home" time is for building my own channel which has about 1% of the viewership of your channel (And likeluy 1% the effort too!)
But I've taken the time to watch.... at school during firewall breakdowns or at home if I don't catch one.
Hope yuou do have an update on Saturday this week. :)
Also they're dumping me as a teacher. So there's that.
No, weekends are for shorts, so i do have a video, but the long format ones are Monday-Friday at 8 am EDT@LadyLithias
Good morning !!
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So many great elements in this video. All enjoyable! The babies sleeping together, the rebel running in the manger, the beautiful music and photos. Hope the Mom accepts her poor little fella 😢. Thanks for sharing with us, hope you stay warm and get some rest. ❤
Thanks so much, we are hopeful that she'll come around! 😊
Good morning Arnie and Lynn. A lot goes into the jugs. It is a check up for all. Moms and lambs. Definitely want that bonding to take place. So very important for a healthy situation. Well mommy you better straighten up and take care of your son. Arnie has changed the sheets and mommies trying to relax with all those babies on board. There really is a big difference in drinkers. The metal pan drinkers make a lot more sense. Lambs in the box are so cute. Another busy lambing day. The amount of work involved is very impressive. Some many details need to be addressed each day. Bravo shepherds. Blessings and big big hugs to you both. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😉😉😉😉❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you, Patricia. Let's keep our fingers crossed that mom will smarten up and realize her ram lamb is special too!🥰🥰🥰🥰
Good Morning from Florida!
cutie lambs on the boxes 🐑🖤🤍🤎💜💙
❤Lots of lambs & lots of long hours, thanks for sharing!
You're welcome, it's a busy but exciting time!
I laughed out loud when I saw that lamb frolicking down the feed bunk!!😂 Didn't take long for one of the little cuties to figure out that trick!😂😉 Thanks for a great video!! Stay safe!🙏❤🇺🇸
@@cindyboard7816 Yes, there's always one!😆🤣🤣
Lynne, I haven't posted in a long time, but I wanted to tell you that I watch every video you put up. I lost my mom this summer, and watching snippets of you and Arnie's life always gave me something to distract me, if not a smile. Once the grief started easing, you gave me more smiles, and eventually laughter. I wanted you and Arnie to know this. I know you guys have hard days ,too, but you keep pushing through. That crack Arnie made a few videos back about seeing if you wanted to roll in the hay caught me just as I took a sip of coffee ! I choked, and spit coffee everywhere !!! THANKS ARNIE !!! I really like those stills at the end of the videos, too. You have the knack of making a mundane moment in time look magical . Thank you again for sharing your lives with us.
@sheiladuncan1027 I'm sorry you've been going through some tough times, Sheila. I lost my mom last year so I know a little of what you're probably going through. I'm so glad our videos can give you some distraction and a smile. Thank you and take care!🥰🥰🥰
Good Afternoon from Germany 🙋♀️
I showed my mum your videos while we were waiting for the GP to call her in from the car,,
Arnie comment about his mum made her laugh,,
She loved seen the babies been born and how great Arne is with the sheep and loved you and your lunch for Arne on Tuesday video
@SeanieD1968 That’s awesome! Arnie's mother truly was awful, though. You don't like to say that about a mother, but in this case, it is true 😔
Having done many lambing’s in my life I have seen my fair share of ewes rejecting their lambs, fortunately not too often and as you said usually first timers, loving these lambing videos great music at the end
@ellencarver5575 Thanks, Ellen. Ewes rejecting their lambs is so discouraging. We usually are able to turn them around, so fingers crossed!🤞🥰🥰
I've noticed another advantage for tagging lambs behind the ear, instead of the front: the ears hang more naturally. You often see a lamb with a front tag, having an oddly cocked ear.
Looks like new Manger games started 😂
Those head gates look like marvelous ideas. My understanding is that it helps them bond because eventually the lamb smells like mom's milk. Is that right? That and she just gets used to it. What a shame, but it does happen especially with first timers. Thank goodness you noticed it before putting them in the group pen.
@KateMedland I am not sure what actually changes her mind. We do tend to have successful outcomes with a lot of our rejected lambs by not confining mom and I am not convinced the heas locks work as well. Aside from smells and getting used to it, there still needs to be a little bit of loving. For that, I think more mother/child interaction has to occur too 🤔
Yes. And sometimes there's a reason for the rejection too. Mom knowing her limitations or something we don't see that's actually wrong. That little guy looked very nice in the video though.
@@KateMedlandYes, he is definitely a nice ram
Hi! 👋 I’m new to the channel and just purchased my first little sheep herd 🤗 just wondering what the white stuff was in that syringe.
@@crystalcooks7976 Baycox to prevent coccidiosis
Here’s hoping the mom will finally accept her little boy. Wasn’t there one last year or the year before who was adverse to her lamb, and she finally began to love it? I know it took a couple weeks or so. Or am I mistaken? 🐑
Beautiful little Dorset lamb💛
Yikes, it was a good thing you were there, Lynn, when the Suffolk laid down on her wee one’s leg! Also a very good thing, as you said, it wasn’t the lamb’s head! 😮
The Suffolks nesting was adorable. Like Arnie, I too wonder why they like going high. Maybe they get tired hopping up and down and then just figure what hey I might as well lie down here. 😄
Uh oh. It looks like you have another Miss Naughty coming up, popping into the manger for fun and freedom! 🐑😄🥰
@Mary-F Yes, we had one last year too. She stayed in the jug with her lamb probably a month, i can't remember exactly. But when they finally got our, they were bonded!😁🥰🥰
I hope that mama accepts that ram lamb. Poor baby❤
Wow one has figured out already how to get in the middle of the feeding bin. Or whatever you call it. Lol. See you tomorrow
I wonder if the ewe will realize that she has to give the lamb a drink too, sometimes she won't understand and it will be from a bottle. That can be even more challenging. It was sunny here all day and 2 to +7 degrees C, where you had -17 C, that's the difference, brrr. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it turns out well. And I noticed that one ewe, who will have a baby, has a pretty swollen leg and is limping, maybe she could put some healing ointment on it so it doesn't hurt so much. I'll send the photo to your email. Krasava
@krasavaserkopova8819 Yes, we know about her. She split her hoof. There's not much we can do but keep disinfecting it.
Lynn what do you think could have made that ewe decide she didn't like her ram lamb? Smell? maybe overwhelmed? I'm curious, not that there is a answer, because there probably isn't one?🤔
Most likely just overwhelmed. It seems that multiple lambs intimate some first-timers and they think they can choose to abandon one or even all. Never happens twice luckily 🙂
White or yellow paint on black lambs would work better?
@ruthbentley7560 There is no white and yellow, doesn't work well either as their wool grows out, although I thoughtyellow would be great too.. So far, red and orange seem best on the suffolks.
What is the brand of the drinkers?
@@teyjahxaveriss6270 Ritchie
Sorry about the little ram lamb getting rejected…you have so few do that, guess you have your first bottle baby. Too had the ewe hates him.
@@justinanovak8040 Believe me, we don't give up that easily! We will do our best to convince mom that he's wonderful!😁
Sometimes if you leave the dog close by the ewe will let the baby lamb feed and she will protect it ,,, just idea 💡
@SeanieD1968 Yes, that does sometimes work if the ewe is undecided. However, once she has made up her mind, I'm thinking she'd leave it to the dog!😆😅😅🥰🥰
I showed my mum your videos while we were waiting for the GP to call her in from the car,,
Arnie comment about his mum made her laugh,,
She loved seen the babies been born and how great Arne is with the sheep and loved you and your lunch for Arne on Tuesday video