patandchickens
Crazy Cat Lady
I posted some actual questions over on BYH, but thought I'd post here too, mainly just to work off nervous excitement 
I rather-belatedly (last two weeks' weather was *awful* except when husband not available to help) caught up all five sheep today, wormed and boostered and separated the girls and boys back into separate pens, and did a (very pathetic attempt at a) modest crutch-shearing on the girls in case of oncoming lambs.
And I think there WILL be lambs? It works the same in sheeps as in goats, yes, where the vulva gets all puffy on either side if they are advancedly pregnant? (Plus I *think* I felt a lamb inside one, thru the wool, when condition-scoring them)
They were marked by the ram on Nov 1 and 8, so lambs should be in 1-3 wks. Eeek! I am NOT ready for this! (Well, supply-wise I am, but not mentally)
The shetland ewe seems very beer-bellied but her vulva doesn't look anything like the two presumably-pregnant dairybred girls'. So I dunno if she is open or just got bred a month or two after I quit putting the crayon on the ram.
Now I am all afraid of things that could go wrong. Oddly my OWN pregancies did not particularly make me paranoid about bad outcomes, I was always pretty "well, whatever happens I'll cope", but having presumably-pregnant SHEEP about to pop turns out to actually be very stressful for me. I feel stupid, but, there ya go
Pat
I rather-belatedly (last two weeks' weather was *awful* except when husband not available to help) caught up all five sheep today, wormed and boostered and separated the girls and boys back into separate pens, and did a (very pathetic attempt at a) modest crutch-shearing on the girls in case of oncoming lambs.
And I think there WILL be lambs? It works the same in sheeps as in goats, yes, where the vulva gets all puffy on either side if they are advancedly pregnant? (Plus I *think* I felt a lamb inside one, thru the wool, when condition-scoring them)
They were marked by the ram on Nov 1 and 8, so lambs should be in 1-3 wks. Eeek! I am NOT ready for this! (Well, supply-wise I am, but not mentally
)The shetland ewe seems very beer-bellied but her vulva doesn't look anything like the two presumably-pregnant dairybred girls'. So I dunno if she is open or just got bred a month or two after I quit putting the crayon on the ram.
Now I am all afraid of things that could go wrong. Oddly my OWN pregancies did not particularly make me paranoid about bad outcomes, I was always pretty "well, whatever happens I'll cope", but having presumably-pregnant SHEEP about to pop turns out to actually be very stressful for me. I feel stupid, but, there ya go
Pat
