[Jacob-list] Jacob-list Digest, Vol 122, Issue 4

[Elizabeth Bell]

these sheep are so funny, why in the world would they want to make more work for themselves! one child is enough, and they usually get 2 but 4!!! 
Elizabeth Bell
hobbyknobfarm at main.nc.us



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>   1. Twins x 2-----Same ewe?... (Jacqueline Horn)

>   2. Re: Twins x 2-----Same ewe?... (Elizabeth Strub)

>   3. Re: Twins x 2-----Same ewe?... (Lasell J. Bartlett)

>   4. Re: Twins x 2-----Same ewe?... (Peg Bostwick)

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> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 07:12:43 -0400

> From: Jacqueline Horn <llamamama20 at hotmail.com>

> Subject: [Jacob-list] Twins x 2-----Same ewe?...

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> Hello from Wynmere Farm in wintery (still) Maine.  This morning we discovered an Easter surprise.  Sandy our ewe who delivered twin ram lambs early Thursday morning just delivered ANOTHER set of twins this morning?  Any one else had this experience?

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> Jacquie Horn

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> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 08:01:56 -0400

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

> Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Twins x 2-----Same ewe?...

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> Didn't someone post the same thing a while back? I think on the Facebook page. 

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> Elizabeth B. Strub

> www.hobbyknobfarm.com

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> On Apr 20, 2014, at 7:12 AM, Jacqueline Horn <llamamama20 at hotmail.com> wrote:

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>> Hello from Wynmere Farm in wintery (still) Maine.  This morning we discovered an Easter surprise.  Sandy our ewe who delivered twin ram lambs early Thursday morning just delivered ANOTHER set of twins this morning?  Any one else had this experience?

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>> Jacquie Horn

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> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 08:04:51 -0400

> From: "Lasell J. Bartlett" <lasell at lasell.org>

> Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Twins x 2-----Same ewe?...

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> Hi Jacquie,  

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> Good morning and happy surprise!

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> If Sandy is Sasha's daughter, it would be no surprise if that first set of twins were not hers but that she stole them from another ewe. Is that possible? Sasha did that one year and totally fooled us until the second set came. I suspect she was close enough to birthing that she had milk for the stolen twins. 

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> I've had other ewes since then steal a single from another ewe, and I learned to check backsides if I was suspicious. The pretend new mother will have a clean backside, and the real new mother will have a bloody backside. 

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> Good luck. Maybe after these few days since Thursday there will still be evidence on another ewe. 

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> Lasell

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> On Apr 20, 2014, at 7:12 AM, Jacqueline Horn <llamamama20 at hotmail.com> wrote:

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>> Hello from Wynmere Farm in wintery (still) Maine.  This morning we discovered an Easter surprise.  Sandy our ewe who delivered twin ram lambs early Thursday morning just delivered ANOTHER set of twins this morning?  Any one else had this experience?

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>> Jacquie Horn

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> Lasell J Bartlett

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> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 09:50:26 -0400

> From: "Peg Bostwick" <peg at sweetgrass-jacobs.com>

> Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Twins x 2-----Same ewe?...

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> Close.  We've found a ewe in the morning nursing a single lamb, and then a

> few days later she's had twins.... this has happened three times now.   We

> figured it out the first time after some serious pondering - the ewe STOLE

> the first lamb from another who had twins the same day.  Then eventually her

> own arrived.  If the ewe is close, her milk will come in and she will insist

> the lamb is hers....

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> I haven't had one steal twins.  That is more of a puzzle.  But is there any

> chance another of your ewes lambed on Thursday?  Maybe a first timer who was

> easily confused when your other ewe claimed her lambs? 

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> Good luck... 

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> Peg Bostwick

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> [mailto:jacob-list-bounces at jacobsheep.com] On Behalf Of Jacqueline Horn

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> Subject: [Jacob-list] Twins x 2-----Same ewe?...

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> Hello from Wynmere Farm in wintery (still) Maine.  This morning we

> discovered an Easter surprise.  Sandy our ewe who delivered twin ram lambs

> early Thursday morning just delivered ANOTHER set of twins this morning?

> Any one else had this experience?

> 

> Jacquie Horn

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