[HDRider]

Two actually. I have been at this since 2016. In that time I have had two sets of triplets, until this year. We have had four out of 20 lambs deliver, two sets of twins, and two of triplets.

The first lamb today self delivered. I could tell the ewe was not done. The first baby was clean and dry and hopping around, walking fine. Not sure how old it was, but it had been out for a few hours.

# 2 was breech, with all four legs trying to come out. I could not find a picture exactly as it was presented. I pushed the front legs back in as much as I could and pulled the back out. Not an easy pull. I hope I did not break a leg or pull anything out of place. The third one came out easy, head first. It is walking around fine. The jury is still out on #2. It is fine, alert and trying to stand, but it has not as of yet. It has been out for about an hour.

The back two legs were out and the lamb was hunched with the front two legs trying to come out too.

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[Hiro]

Two actually. I have been at this since 2016. In that time I have had two sets of triplets, until this year. We have had four out of 20 lambs deliver, two sets of twins, and two of triplets.

The first lamb today self delivered. I could tell the ewe was not done. The first baby was clean and dry and hopping around, walking fine. Not sure how old it was, but it had been out for a few hours.

# 2 was breech, with all four legs trying to come out. I could not find a picture exactly as it was presented. I pushed the front legs back in as much as I could and pulled the back out. Not an easy pull. I hope I did not break a leg or pull anything out of place. The third one came out easy, head first. It is walking around fine. The jury is still out on #2. It is fine alert and trying to stand, but it has not as of yet. It has been out for about an hour.

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The back two legs were out and the lamb was hunched with the front tw legs trying to come out too.

Sheep 201: The lambing process

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Fine work. I pull the calves. The farm boss with her smaller hands gets to rearrange legs/hooves in utero for the sheep. They are resilient creatures. The dead/decaying one the old lady pulled out in between two healthy ones amazed me the most. Ewe was fine and the two lambs sharing that space with partial mush were fine.

 

[HDRider]

Fine work. I pull the calves. The farm boss with her smaller hands gets to rearrange legs/hooves in utero for the sheep. They are resilient creatures. The dead/decaying one the old lady pulled out in between two healthy ones amazed me the most. Ewe was fine and the two lambs sharing that space with partial mush were fine.

My wife tried first. She just did not have the strength to pull it out. The third one was pretty easy after #2 came out.

 

[HDRider]

Everyone is walking and nursing fine.

 

[HDRider]

The after birth all came out. I let the dogs in to help with that. No bleeding. Looking good. Mamma really perked up when the after birth came out.

 

[Hiro]

The farm boss had to get involved. Older ewe was pushing all day but not dilated enough. The next day, the farm boss dug in and pulled out all three:

 

[Alice In TX/MO]

Great outcome!