This is my girl Xander's second time lambing and is not having the best time of it. She is super freaked out by the movement happening in her belly - maybe she remembers what childbirth was like last year 😬 I found her looking uncomfortable so I sat down next to her to give her pets. She subsequently fell asleep ON MY LAP. Poor babe. Look at that smile though! Xander is also ridiculously large and on Toxemia watch. She's been getting calcium supplements and propylene glycol every 12 hours. Wish us luck that all goes well 🤞

Hello! My ram keeps doing this. I don’t know what this means! Is it yet another way to assert dominance? Is it meant to say he wants to come in my house? (He does but he’s not allowed in) Is it friendly, agressive? I can’t find anything on google about this!

Thought r/sheep might like some of the shots I got two weekends ago!

90% of my photography is sheep so I hope you enjoy!

This little gal looked perky last night but mom apparently doesn’t have enough milk for two. We can’t feed her til she warms up some. Any better ideas for heating her up?

Captured this little Icelandic lamb in the sunset at about 24 hours old.

This is my pet, his names hank and he has a huge personality.

Stevie Nicks (back), her first daughter Rhiannon (front) and her second daughter Christine (middle)

Please say hello to Paddington & Edwin :)

She’s already feeling much better. She crashed into my camera and myself multiple times today playing a game of tag that I didn’t agree to but I was using a 100mm lens and had to keep running away. She is obviously still coughing but her energy is peak and she never lost her appetite but if I had any doubt it was gone after she crashed into me and shoved her head completely in my jacket looking for vanilla wafers. So here’s a gallery of her floating through the air at me like the missile she is

Hey all, Our ewe had her first lambs yesterday morning, outside, in a January rainstorm. We weren't expecting for another few weeks, and one of her two lambs was DOA. Her surviving lamb was found dirty, cold, and barely moving. She apparently rejected both, not cleaning either and grazing at the other end of the property. We only knew she lambs at all from the placenta she was dragging behind her. The surviving lamb we managed to get inside, warmed and cleaned, and has been readily accepting the bottles of colostrum we've been supplying, but only 2-3 ounces at a time. She's very small, and her eyelids aren't fully opened (just the front half), but she responds to sounds and touch, moves her legs as though she wants to stand, and occasionally raises her head for the bottle (sometimes we have to lift her head and tube feed, others she readily buckles on the bottle). She can stiffen up and hole her weight when supported for balance, but once we let go she falls to either side. She pees and poops normally; a good sign that she is proccessing the colostrum. She does bleat occasionally, she is just very weak and limp. We want to know if there's anything we can do, or if we should just keep on with the bottles and hope she gets her strength up.

We've tried a quick cold water dip on the hooves to get blood flowing, and she does immediately try to move her legs when dipped. We've tried massaging and exercising her legs, but no real progress so far. Occasionally she tries to move her legs and get up, but she runs out of energy quickly.

Before any of you come after me: • She was born on a weekend and the livestock vets are closed. We do not have an emergency livestock vet in our area. • Yes, we know this is possibly a losing battle. • Yes, we are trying to save her anyway. • Yes, we do have a birthing pen. As I said, we were not expecting them this early, so Mama was let out to graze early in the morning and decided to lamb out in the field rather than in the pen. She showed no signs of preparing to lamb, but she's a Jacob's, and a lot of people have told me that they are pretty capable of lambing on their own.

Any advice is helpful. We know it's a Longshot, but she made it through the first 24 hours, so we have hope there.

Don’t worry about the wattle, she’s fine!

I'll save you the really long post I wrote before because I don't think anyone wants to read it.

The short version is I was hiking, and saw this sheep with its leg stuck. And I felt terrible about it so curtailed my hike and came back and try to free it, but I couldn't.

I tried to find a nearby farmer and failed, and then I went home and came back (an hour round trip) with some wire cutters (that were designed for thin electrical cables rather than barbed wire) and eventually managed to free the sheep.

From my point of view, this sheep would have died if I did nothing, and I couldn't live with myself if I was thinking about it slowly dying of starvation/thirst. At least after I freed it, even if it was limping, it could at least find grass and eat and continue living? Hopefully the farmer would find it in the next few days and be able to help it.

I was trespassing to free it, and I caused damage to the barbed wire fence (a single cut which you can't tell is there afterwards). But I think I made the right choice...?

I heard stories about the mom not being able to support triplets because the third one drags everyone else down. Should I supplement them with milk and colostrum or go based on seeing if anyone is going downhill and then step in

Got this little dude from another local farm to be a new ram for us... he's an absolute daddy's boy and the sweetest little man, and loves terrorizing the ducks that try to attack his papa🤣 he has spent the first little bit with us inside because of the wild weather and him not doing so well, but he's sorted out now and will soon be in the lamb pasture with the other littles and mommas. I never know this sub existed, but man I found my people, and know y'all will appreciate the perfection that is Mr. Stanley Yelnats.

These were all sired by my Hebridean ram. 12 lambs out of 6 ewes; 1 single, 4 twins, and 1 triplet

We rescue her when she was only a few days old, in the fist picture she was 1 month approximately, second picture 3 months after a big bottle of milk, 3rd one, with a dipper so she can sleep inside (she was like a month a half.

She’s now living among other sheep on the flock. But she comes to say hello every time.