[Jacob-list] cervical plugs and such

[Linda]

Sounds like something I might try if I run across one.  I normally don't do quite as much midnight checking, but was worried about a ewe that lost a lamb last year.  If I'd been there, he could have been saved.   It's nice to start this lambing season off with four healthy lambs that didn't need me there at all.  

Linda
www.patchworkfibers.com
Registered Jacob Sheep, Angora Rabbits, Handspun Yarn

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:36:17 -0800 (PST), Mary Hansson wrote:
> Linda,
>
> My most-used equipment during lambing season is my children's baby
> monitor.  That little gift when Ian was born (now 14) has never
> been NOT used.  First, it was used for about 3 years with the boys,
> and then it went to the barn on the advice of an experienced
> shepherd from up north.  It has been out in all
> weather and plugged in for 10 springs now.  It sits out under the
> roof of my sheep shed, so it doesn't get rained on, but otherwise
> is exposed to all the
> humidity elements.  It works as well as it did the day it was
> gifted.  You can find them in yard sales, goodwill stores, etc.  My
> receiver sits by the bed alerting me to any problems or moments of
> interest in the barn nights.
>
> Just so everybody can either snicker or
> commiserate---My beautiful 4-horned Bullthistle Sage has lambed
> within the last half hour.  She was bred to Huntsberger Carl (4-
> horned ram) and appears to have produced 2 ram lambs that will be 2-
> horned.  This is the sort of "luck" we have at ISeeSpots Farm when
> we put 4-horned with 4-horned animals.  She created a 2-horned ram
> with Huntsberger Hunter (2-horned) last year that Chris Brantley
> purchased.  Ahhh....the joys of ewes who produce consistent
> offspring!
>
> Mary Ellen
>
>
> Mary Ellen Hansson, MEd, RD, LDN
> ISeeSpots Farm
> Jacob Sheep:  Lambs, adults, wool
> www.iseespots.com
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