[Jacob-list] Yearling mom with no milk!

[Peg Bostwick]

Glad that things worked out for you!    Peg

Peg Bostwick
peg at sweetgrass-jacobs.com
517-626-6981


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I want to thank everyone who responded with very helpful information
regarding my yearling ewe and her preemie lamb. I am so grateful to have
this community to bring my questions to and to learn from!!! You are very
wise shepherds!

This ewe was one of my Icelandics. You can see pictures and read how things
progressed at the following link:
http://farmgirlreneweables.blogspot.com/2012/07/very-late-new-comer.html

Thanks, again!
Laura
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Laura C Frazier
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>    1. Yearling ewe, no milk (Gary Anderson)

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>    4. SHEEP  FOR  SALE - LANCASTER COUNTY, PA (Richard and Susan)

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> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 12:24:34 -0400

> From: "Gary Anderson" <gbanderson at ucdavis.edu>

> Subject: [Jacob-list] Yearling ewe, no milk

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> We regularly breed ewe lambs to lamb as yearlings.  This season we 

> lambed 10 yearlings.  Occasionally, one will lamb with little or

(apparently) no milk.

> I agree with Peg's suggestion to leave the lamb on the ewe.  With 

> continued suckling stimulus, the ewe's milk production could, perhaps 

> is even likely, to increase within a few days, either sufficiently to 

> support the lamb or sufficiently to require only supplementation.  I 

> experienced a similar situation in a yearling ewe this lambing season, 

> little mammary development and small lamb.  He's now a 

> ready-to-be-weaned ram lamb raised entirely by his mom, except for my 

> meddling during his first few days to ensure he would survive until his

mom could fully support him.

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> In my experience yearlings can require a bit more intensive husbandry 

> at lambing than does the adult ewe flock.  Ensuring the ewe has 

> sufficient milk to support the lamb is one such area.  Also in my 

> experience the outcome is almost always positive, but a bit of 

> tinkering might be required at and immediately after lambing.

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> Gary Anderson

> 

> Hillside Jacobs

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> Sparta, MI

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> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 15:42:27 -0400

> From: Elizabeth Strub <hobbyknobfarm at gmail.com>

> Subject: [Jacob-list] No milk

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> I have never had any problem feeding sheep milk replacer. I use sav a lam

as that is what TSC carries. I have been fortunate enough to have a mom that
supplied colostrum though. That is the most important ingredient for ANY
baby in the first days of life. For sheep I believe it is 24 hours for best
absorption of the Ig's in the gut. I always leave lambs with mom but they
grow up to be friendlier and sometimes annoying when it comes to food. I
have had to feed several jacob lambs, mom rejected her lambs and one mom had
an udder that was non functional. So your question should be is the udder
non functional for some reason or will she just not let the milk down? My
vet freaked out and decided my ewe had one of those terrible diseases that
effected the udder. I didn't believe him, bred her again and the udder still
didn't work. She went to a friends farm as a non breeder and is healthy. I
think she came with the faulty udder as I bought her bred but really no way
of knowing. 

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> As you probably know, don't overfeed the milk as they will get the runs.

Feed small amounts often and increase slowly. Good directions on the bag and
in raising sheep books.

> 

> And the ewe that came from the mom that rejected her lambs is a great mom.

She just came back to my farm last night as her owner is divorcing. She must
be 8 now. Good luck Laura, I am sure she will be fine. Ties you down a bit
though.

> 

> Elizabeth B. Strub

> www.hobbyknobfarm.com

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> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:53:15 -0400

> From: "Carl Fosbrink" <fourhornfarm at frontier.com>

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> I am needing a ram transported from Georgia to Indiana. If anyone is going

that way please let me know.

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> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 10:54:11 -0400

> From: "Richard and Susan" <stcroft at ptd.net>

> Subject: [Jacob-list] SHEEP  FOR  SALE - LANCASTER COUNTY, PA

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> We have 3 yearling ewes for sale (two 4H and one 2H)  and 1 ewe lamb 

> born this past Spring (4H).  Also a very sweet 2H ram, born in 2011...all

these

> sheep were sired by Sweetgrass Cooper.    We are located in southeastern

> Pennsylvania in Lancaster County near the town of Lititz.  Please 

> email or call for more information and pictures.  If you take all the 

> sheep you will receive a discount.

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> Thanks..

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> Sue Martin

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> Stonecroft

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> 717-629-9031

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