Mystery Yow: Lambing or no lambing??
Posted: Monday, 09 April 2007 |
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We watched a yow basically all evening and all night and...nothing. Not one push, not one strain. Yet she was showing all the signs of beginning to lamb!
So this morning Erlend put a hand in her and OH DEAR! He found one lamb with his back against the opening. After a lot of work Erlend turned the lamb around and delivered him...but sadly it died. (It must have died only a few hours before.) So I began to prepare Little Sheep to be adopted by this yow: I tied three of his legs together and started to rub him on the dead lamb.
However to our surprise (and delight!) we found that this yow was having triplets instead of twins - and the other two lambs came out very much alive! And now Madam Mystery Yow is happily licking and nickering away in her pen.
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So...I traded my quiet cabin in the Alaskan woods for the howling winds of Orkney and life on a farm. 
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