~ Monday, February 4th, 2013 ~
What a crazy day I have had! I was awakened by my mom at about 5:00am or so saying that a sheep is having lambs in the rain! So, I flew up and ran out there and sure enough, one of my Finn ewes, Mount Cayley had 2 ewe lambs on the ground (in the pouring rain). We brought her and her 2 lambs back to the barn and then a little later we heard a baby goat screaming . . . we ended up finding 1 of our Mini Nubian goats had twin kids (buck and doe) and another one of our dairy goats had twin doelings!
Mount Cayley ended having triplet ewe lambs (2 white lambs and 1 HST black lamb)!
Well, we left 2 of the lambs on their mother and the other one almost died from hypothermia, so I put her on a bottle . . . she ended up passing away about 1 week later . . . I believe she was a little preemie and it was just to much on her tiny body :(
The sire to the lambs is FSB 617 Panda, our registered Finnsheep ram and the dam to the lambs is FSB 615 Mount Cayley, one of our registered Finnsheep ewes.
Here are some pictures ~
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