Are my sheep pregnant? Easy ways to tell
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- Опубликовано: 30 янв 2021
- Are my sheep pregnant? Here are some easy ways to tell if your sheep are pregnant Mabye. Here are some easy ways to tell. Come along with us as we point out obvious symptoms and signs of pregnancy in sheep or ewes.
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2017 Polaris Ranger 1000XP
2004 Chevy Silverado 3500
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1981 Allis Chalmers 7045 with Allis Chalmers 470 Loader
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2000 tunitti 10 wheel v rake with kicker
2000 M&W 1815 Rotary Hoe
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Finish Mower
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Equipment used on our farm:
2017 Polaris Ranger 1000XP
2004 Chevy Silverado 3500
1992 John Deere 1360 MoCo
1991 Bush Hog 2615R Batwing
1979 Allis Chalmers 5020 with KMW 430 Loader
1981 Allis Chalmers 7045 with Allis Chalmers 470 Loader
1978 Gehl Bale 1500A Round Baler
Various Implements:
Bale Spikes
Finish Mower
Box Blade
Subsoiler/Ripper
Bale Unroller
Great explanations, very informative.... I see you don’t Bob their tails. Why not?
Do you want the real answer? In our eyes the benefit is just not there to dock their tails. The original reason for docking their tails was to reduce feces build up and prevent fly strike. it also helps you to be able to see their genitals and their utter whenever it comes time for breeding or also for monitoring a ewe's utter. Since we use rotational grazing fly strike is a very minimal issue for us. It helps to keep our parasites in control it also helps to reduce flies and of course it gives them a much better forage as they are giving the grass a break and not eating it all the way down to the ground which allows it to grow back much better. The real answer originally for us was we just didn't want to dock them it would cost us money to have somebody come in to do it and at the time we were starting out and didn't know for sure if we were going to stay with sheep or transition to another animal at a later date. so basically it boiled down to us being too cheap and lazy to deal with it but as you can see from what I explained above it turns out for our operation it just won't make a difference.
@@FreedomFarmsMo cheap and lazy or frugal and cautiously practical? lol. Thank you for the video and explanation. Have a blessed day.
Glad it was helpful. I like your description of frugal and cautiously practical lol. If you haven't already done so please subscribe. Also check out our previous and future videos too. We try to explain everything we do and show mistakes we made so others won't make them also.
@@FreedomFarmsMo Already a subscriber. Learned of your channel from
Chronicles of a Farmer's Wife. Lol glad you like my description. I've learned it's all in how ya say it. Lol. Got that from my mom, who says she is "older" not "old", the "er" makes the difference. And well as I see it, from what you said in the answer to the question about Bobbing tails. It seems to me that it really wasn't that you and your wife were being cheap and lazy. It was more so, that you were both taking your time to decide the right course of action for your herd. And instead of wasting money on what you decided was an unnecessary procedure to put your sheep thru, you instead put your money towards building a very nice shelter for them with a concrete floor to keep them safe and healthy. Makes sense to me. And I will be sure to continue watching your videos since I do like learning new things, even though I live in the burbs and not on a farm or have animals. I do like your thought process on helping others learn from your mistakes though, it's how we learn. Stay safe and stay blessed.
Thank you for subscribing. Kayla and Jason were great to visit with and we cant wait to visit their farm. We try to not jump into decisions or trends. The barn was a huge upgrade and so far with how this lambinb season has went it was worth every penny. Knowledge is power and the thing is that most people don't want to show their mistakes but failure is a proper teacher as long as you don't repeat it.
This was a super helpful video for us. We are new sheep owners and our sheep came to us bred and we had no idea what to look for.
Glad to hear that! Our whole channel is devoted to helping others start their own farm. We show all of our mistakes and successes. I hope you may find the other videos helpful too! We started our farm 5 years ago ourselves. Thank you for the comment.
This is the best video on udder development Ive found lol. We have always been able to see the signs clearly but now I have a maiden ewe that's had a very small udder for about 45 days now. Seems like we could still have some weeks to go.
After the first time lambing that is not uncommon to have a tiny bag that doesn't quite seem to go away. Hope the video was helpful. Good luck with your upcoming lambing
Thanks this was really helpful!
Wonderful! That is what our channel is all about is helping others starting a farm and learning about sheep and hay. Thanks for watching, please consider subscribing and checking out other videos on our channel.
Thank you. This helped a lot.
You're welcome, happy it helped
This video helped me a lot!!! Thank you sir!!!
You're welcome glad to help!
Really helpful simple video. thank you!
You are very welcome and glad you found it useful
Thank you, this video was very helpful.
Glad you enjoyed it
WOW! Bought a ewe that was supposed to be bred. After watching your video I can say she is. Thank you
You're welcome, glad your found it helpful
So helpful thanks
You're welcome
Thanks for this!
You are welcome. We try to put out several videos that help others raise sheep and start a farm. If you haven't already please check out our previous videos and subscribe to our channel as well.
excellent video! thanks
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Thank you for you advice i joust start this information is very helpful for as beginners.
That's what we started this channel for was to help others. Glad it is educational.
Such a helpful video. Subbed. Gonna binge now. We have 1 ram in with our 4 ewes since early Feb. not sure if they are extra fluffy at this point or pregnant. Time will tell. God bless from Nova Scotia
Thanks for the sub! Time will tell for sure! God bless you all too
Thank you so much 😊 I’m just starting out as we bought a little hobby farm . I’ll be sure to contact you when the time comes I’ve just purchased a Ram 🐏 🙏😊
Our whole channel is dedicated to showing others how we started our farm in hopes to help them start their own. Glad you are finding it useful!
Thanks for the info. Really helpful. Bought a sheep and my husband and I suspect that she's pregnant. About to go check her out.
You're welcome. That is a big part of why we started our RUclips channel is to help others. If you have more questions comment on here or message us on our Facebook page. Link in the description
My Icelandic whether looks like he's overdue. Their fleece is SO thick!
Wow
Excellent info, thank you! We just started with 1 male, three females. We think all our girls are pregnant, so exciting year!
We started with 3 ewes ourselves! That is awesome, it grows quick. 5 years ago we had 3 ewes and now we have 160 ewes lambing this winter. Happy lambing!
@@FreedomFarmsMo that’s amazing!!!! We just butchered our 3 wethers - fantastic meat from Dorpers. We then put our ram in with our 4 ewes. That was end of January. They already look bigger but it could be because they’re still growing? We just love our sheep (coming up to a year in June!).
I would say you may be able to see a little bit of difference in a month. It's hard to say as some ewes hide it better than others. They are quite the adventure to raise, and we have been enjoying it now that we are in the right track with understanding the care they need.
Thank you for posting this video. I believe a few of mine are pregnant.
You're welcome, that is great to hear.
Thank you
You're welcome and I hope you found it helpful.
Buen video sLudos de mexico
gracias, me alegro de que lo hayas disfrutado. Es genial ver que nuestros videos están siendo vistos en México.
I have just found your videos and I liked what you saying about knowing that they are in lamb I only have a dozen ewes and learning would you take your rams away till ready to mate them thank you for your information
Glad you found us and hope you enjoy our other videos too! You can pull the rams and put them back to get the ewes to lamb closer together. We do not, sheep naturally breed during the longest days of the year. For us then breeding in late July early August works well because they will lamb in late December through January and it spreads the lambs over a month period which is helpful
Seen your post in the Sheep Farmers group on Facebook. I just got 2 ewe lambs and an unrelated ram lamb, early last year. I am guessing they are pregnant but not sure. Gonna be really hard to tell using your method because they have full coats. I am in NE Ohio and can't have them with no fleece. They will freeze lol. PS the entrance to your farm is exactly like the guys who has the channel. Think like a horse. Exact. 😊
You caught me on the same person that owns the farm and the channel 😁 the easiest way to check and see if they are pregnant when they were younger is actually to reach just above the utter on their belly and see if you can feel the formation of a hoof. I don't know the exact amount of time that it would require from conception to being able to feel that hoof but we have actually felt it as early as 2 months. Needless to say at that point it is pretty small. You were starting out very similar to the way we started. 3 years ago we bought three ewes. Here we are now with 77 adult ewes and 77 lambs on ground with 21 adult ewes left to give birth yet. I'm not going to say it's easy but you can do it and you can grow as well that is what our channel is all about is showing the errors that we made and hoping that it helps others to not make the same mistakes as we did. I will say this though I am very glad that I do not live in Ohio cuz it is much colder there. Before we built our livestock Barn winners were miserable going out feeding hay graining checking lambs pulling lambs and all the other fun chores that come along with winter and lambing season.
@@FreedomFarmsMo Thanks so much for the info. Looking forward to more vids.
New video will be out Friday. Check out the previous videos too. We built our own livestock Barn, make our own hay, and discuss how we make our own milk replacer for bottle lambs too
We just had a Ewe give birth to twins and her bag was very soft and definitely didn’t look full, so I thought she was a few weeks away. Then we had another Ewe who could hardly walk for weeks and her bag almost bursting. So not always exactly like you say. But generally agree.
You are right, we just gave general statistics on the video to help those new to the sheep world. Thanks for the comment and hope you enjoyed the video.
We just got 3 Barbadoes sheep and are starting with them. I think one of the ewes is pregnant, about a month, so this really helped. I was also wondering if you got involved in any government programs to help out with all the costs of the buildings, fences etc.?
We started with three katahdins and have grown to 160 over the past 5 years. As far as grants or programs to help with building costs it will depend on your state and county. For instance Texas county Missouri soil and water conservation has programs for cross fencing but it was no where near the full cost. We put up over 22,000 feet of fencing ourselves at roughly $1 a ft. For barns they have similar programs. We applied for a grant for the barn and got it but we built it ourselves and still ended up paying money. But again this is all based on state programs. The USDA has programs too that you may want to look into. This year is the first year that the farm has paid all of its bills on it's own. Meaning that the fuel, equipment repairs, feed, and some improvements all were able to be paid from the money we made from lamb sales where the past 4 years our full time jobs have been paying those things.
@@FreedomFarmsMo Thank you. I appreciate the help
You are welcome, hope you are finding our channel useful
i Love Them 😚
Lambs are pretty cute
It’s the same way with goats. We had goats when I was growing up. After the kids were born we would separate them and keep them in a small house with heat lamps to keep them warm and safe, and they were bottle fed . We did it this way cause we milked the goats and had goat milk and didn’t have to buy any milk
Interesting. I knew goats were similar to sheep. I didn't know that was how folks would get goat milk. I guess I assumed they had a dairy cow version of goats. Thanks for sharing!
@@FreedomFarmsMo I never seperated my kids from their does. I milked every morning and allowed the kids to stay with them. Never bottle fed. Loved having the milk and also making cheeses from it.
Glad that worked out well for you!
Really helpful video, thank you!
At what stage of gestation weeks / months do you think it is possible to see lambs kicking / moving in ewes tummy? Thanks 🙏🏼
Thank you, I am glad you found it useful!
I don't know how accurate this answer will be but I want to say 3-4 months into gestation is when you can start seeing/feeling them move but someone else may have a better answer for you. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful
Thanks for that… I have four ewes about halfway through their pregnancy I believe and last night when feeding, I noticed one of my first timers with quite a lot of movement… I could see what looked like kicking or moving! I hadn’t noticed this at this stage last year… But, I love your comments about just watching them and learning because each ewe will do things their own way!
Love your videos… Will be watching more to learn 🙏🏼
Thank you for taking the time to answer my question 😅
@user-nm4zt6zh4f that is the purpose of our channel is to help others learn about sheep so they can make educated decisions on their farm. When we started 6 years ago there was nothing like this and we really wish there would have been. So we are trying to keep others out of that position. Thanks for commenting and don't be afraid to ask questions on our videos
I bought my first sheep this past June - 2 rams, 1 wether and 1 ewe. The wether is the son of the ewe and one of the rams. I sold the two rams a couple of weeks ago because I was sure she was pregnant since the older ram mated her at the beginning of September. However, not long after I noticed the wether showing interest in her as if she's in heat. Do wethers just act silly like that? After watching your video I'm thinking she is pregnant since her sides are poking out. I thought maybe she was just bloated or getting fat from the oats I've been feeding her. Good video and it gives me hope that she is indeed pregnant.
It's possible she has been bred, wethers will still be interested in ewes that are in heat but they simply can't do much about it other than breed her with blanks. As far as if she is pregnant, if she is getting fed well she can possibly be fat, especially getting extras such as oats. I would watch her and continue to monitor her. It isn't the end of the world if she was bred as the ewe and ram have no relation.
When your sheep breed ,PLEASE make sure they get toxemia shots for them it runs rampant in female sheep they'll need it a month before they deliver or sooner if they're showing swelling in their legs just trying to help out here good luck
Yes mine tried to ride my Ewe's too, this is the first time my girls have been bred, it's common for Ewe's to come into heat every 17 days, the Ram then has a 3day window to get the job done 👍
@@cjshadrick4607 she was indeed pregnant and had twins late January. All three doing fine.
@@wildforagingcountrylife867 ahhh! Happy beginnings! That’s so exciting for you 😊
How many head of ewes do y'all have, if you don't mind me asking? I love your setup. In your operation do y'all keep them inside year round? Thanks.
We had 77 ewes and 4 rams when this video was made during last years lambing season and now we have 117 ewes and 5 rams. If you watch more of our videos on our channel you will see the rest of our operation. Our animals are in the barn 3 months a year and from mid December to mid March the rest the time they are rotationally grazed.
@@FreedomFarmsMo Thanks for the info. I just found your channel, and I subscribed immediately. I will definitely be watching more videos.
Thank you for subscribing. We are here to help others start and grow their farm and hopefully learn from our mistakes along the way. Have a blessed day and hope you enjoy the other videos too.
Is it ok to flip and sit a sheep to trim the hooves while they are pregnant? I have heard mixed responses and their doesn't seem to be much info about this out there. Some say that if it is more than 6-8 weeks before lambing it should be no problem. We have only 5 Ewes and two are very heavy to flip. Our field is very wet over the winter and they have alot of issues with their feet so I like to clip their hooves every month or two, but I am hesitant to flip them while they are pregnant. They have a stall with an open door to the field. They are due the end of March. I could try to clip them while standing but because I take alot of time to clip around the foot rot and use a knife for the inside section, it doesn't seem to be a good position to clip precisely as they pull their leg up with more force making it sketchy with the knife and frustrating in general. Although the sit position is also for them not the most comfortable either after 5 minutes. Thanks for feedback! Keep up the good work!
That is a good question honestly. We trim twice a year, typically in March and again in September. We have the occasional pregnant ewe in each batch and if they are far enough along we will simply skip them and come back to them after they lamb. We don't have foot rot issues and for us it really isn't a big deal if we skip them for a month or two and do theirs a little later. Is it safe to do it on a pregnant ewe? I really just don't know and would say you could roll them at your own risk, and use your best judgement but personally I would try to wait. If you have the basket/net deal to hold them I would think it would be safe but again I really don't know the right answer. It seems that you trim them very often, in my point of view but due to your conditions it may be required I suppose. I'm sorry I could be of more help.
Great video.. But my question is, how many lambs can an ewe give birth to in a year?
Depends on many factors such as available nutrients, genetics, and their environment. A ewe can give birth to singles all the way up to quadruplets. Their gestation period is about 150 days. On an accelerated lambing program a ewe can give birth 3 times in 2 years if everything goes well.
My sheep gentile re swelling and very pink this April 6 and they are to lamb until the end of June. I bought them
They will be really swollen and very obvious when they are closer to lambing. Good luck and hope lambing goes well for you all.
Just wondering if there is any way you can tell by palpating the belly if a ewe is pregnant. Mine are very tame and I can feel something in her belly. Just in front of her hind leg, more on the right hand side. She's been running with a ram 24/7 and has a lamb at foot (6 months old now and we don't have an extra yard to separate her into). Her udder has started to dry up, and she has started to not let the lamb feed. Would this be an indicator that she is pregnant? We'll be moving the ram on as soon as we know for sure that she's pregnant as we don't want him to breed with the ewe lamb as she is his progeny.
I would say you wouldn't feel much of anything until she is at least 2-3 months pregnant and even then it is pretty hard to tell by feeling
What's ur optimal herd size?
How many do you think is too many for ur barn?
Thanks for info!
We can safely grow up to 200 in this barn but we will have to build another barn to reach our goal of a 350 head flock. what we are planning to do is probably build the exact same Barn 20 ft to the west of it in order to have a small feed trough set up outside between the two barns and basically feed the two barns at different times using that same feed trough. At least that is our plans as of right now. The recommended space for a set of use and her twins is 16 to 20 ft. right now the space that we allot for them in the livestock Barn is 40 ft by 100 ft. We keep the last 30 ft of the Barn open for hay storage and manure storage as well as being able to travel through the doors with equipment. And we keep the first 10 ft of the barn for small pins for special case needs and bottle babies. So of that 4,000 ft that the flock is allotted if you divide that by 20 that would give us 200
@@FreedomFarmsMo and what is the revenue you are hoping to produce on 350 sheep?
350 ewes in our business model should yield 500-700 lambs. On the low end of 500, and on the low end of weights and market prices at a minimum we expect to sell lambs for $100 each. That is $50,000 in revenue as a basis. This doesn't include hay sales, custom work, or any other means of income.
@@FreedomFarmsMo thank you for sharing that with me. So that’s 500-700 lambs annually I am assuming? so each breeding ewe represents about $142 a year. At first hearing that seemed low to me considering the cost to keep one lamb for a year. I guess that’s $142 per year per ewe is after all expenses and is all profit. Still seems low but I guess that’s why farming is not for the faint of heart. The simple life is the blessed life no matter how much labor it takes. Life is not at all about the money you make. Last question, how much do lambs way when you send them to slaughter?
That is the low end of our farm business model. Markets change, and hay season can make or break a farm. Our input costs are pretty minimal in the grand scheme of things. We made two videos that show the cost of confinement and our cost of pasturing animals too. Those will answer a lot more of your question far more in depth. The business model I showed you in my previous comment is pretty well our worst case scenario. Typically our lambs sell at around 6 months old at 60-90 lbs. Markets this spring we're pretty decent and brought nearly $3 a lb live weight. Check out those other two videos on our channel I mentioned and it will break it down much better for you.
What kind of sheep was the one with mastitis?
Katahdin. It can happen to any breed, unfortunately sometimes dirt will get in the teet and cause infection.
I would like to know how many months they carry before give birth
The gestation period for sheep, including Katahdins, is typically 147 days, but can range from 138 to 159 days:
Hello ewe you u, hope you ewe u are all well? so how many can they have? They have been busy in that barn eh lol stay safe and take care till next time
They can have singles all the way up to quadruplets. 50 breeding ewes turns in to 100 pretty quick.
I am a new sheep owner and my sheep will eat until they explode on hay. How do you manage the feeding? Would be nice to load up a feeder and come back when it needs filling, but seems like I would come back to dead sheep. How do you do it? How often do you feed them? Does it change when they are pregnant or after giving birth? Thanks.
Our sheep have access to hay all day everyday when confined in the barn. When they get full they lay down and chew cud. Do they eat til they pop on pasture? If they don't then I don't believe they are going to eat til they explode on hay either. Quality of hay will make a big difference too. If it is poor quality they will eat more of it to get the nutrients they need. While in confinement we do supplement our hay with a grain ration. We feed enough for each ewe to get 1lb per head. The lambs are offered creep feed free range all day everyday while in confinement as well. Whether in confinement or on pasture our sheep are given access to free choice minerals all day everyday as well. We have a couple videos on our channel that explains all of this
@@FreedomFarmsMo I have a sheep pen and a small shelter built for them within the sheep pen. I only have 3, but i'm too nervous to let them eat till they stop eating because they get that massive side bloat and still try to keep eating. I give them alfalpha hay because that's what's in my area and really all I know. Is that bad? Is that why they want to eat until they pop? should I look for a different hay? Will that get them to stop eating so they don't pop? Also, do you separate the males from the females? I have 1 male and 2 females. All dorpers. Not the expensive ones, but just not sure how to manage them better ya know. Is feeding them once a day bad? sorry for all the questions.
Alfalfa hay is your problem, legumes will cause bloat. Too much alfalfa or clover is not a good thing. Mixed grass hay with 10-15% clover or alfalfa would be fine but it cannot be mainly legumes for this reason.
We do not separate rams and ewes. If the nutrition is right, the ewe is in heat she will get bred. It will make you have lambs more often but if you are only wanting to lamb at a certain time then you will want to pull the ram and introduce about 6 months before you want your lamb crop. And then pull him back out about 45 days later.
The questions are fine, we started this channel to help others get started as we wish there were some more videos available for us when we started 5 years ago with 3 bred ewes.
Thank you. I appreciate you passing on your experience and knowledge. This will make owning sheep that much more fun.
My feed store said they have Bermuda,
pure orchard,
orchard alfalfa (85/15), and
barley oat wheat alfalfa (bowa - they didn't tell me a % on that one).
Any of these you would choose?
To be very honest I wouldn't waste my money at a feed store. I would buy from a local farm if you are not producing your own hay, it will be much cheaper and a better relationship to build while your flock grows for future hay needs.
However I really do not know what I would choose from your feed store without seeing the hays in person.
How much space does a Ewe need for delivery
20 sq ft seems to be industry standard
Ciao from Italy! Please help! Can a ewe get pregnant soon after lambing? Unfortunately my ram escaped and break into the ladies enclosure. She just gave birth in March and now is June, I noticed that her stomach is very big and that she is very thin. I am still milking her but I noticed that her milk is decreasing. I only have 2 ewes and a ram. Just a small scale herd just for a hobby.
Yes a ewe can get pregnant about a month after lambing. Basically anytime they are in cycle they can become pregnant. Her milk should come back about a week before birth as her bag gets big again. You can feel the underside of her belly to check for movement and even potentially feel hoofs depending on how far along she is to help confirm your thoughts. Thanks for checking out our channel and we hope you will stick around for our adventure growing our farm. We started with 3 ewes just 4 years ago ourselves. Hope this helps
@@FreedomFarmsMo thank you so much! I did checked her belly, and I felt something was moving. I guess she really is pregnant and I think it was the hoof that I felt just above her udder. If my calculation is correct, she's probably 2.5 - 3 months pregnant by now... will the ewe be in danger? Because it's too soon...
As long as she has adequate nutrition like any other pregnancy she will be fine. Her body is just doing it's natural thing especially if a ram is present, which allows her to come into cycle. If her body wasnt ready she wouldn't have got pregnant. Nutrition is key but don't overfeed her either as that can cause problems as well
@@FreedomFarmsMo thank you so much! Subscribing now!
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My sheep gave birth last night but her belly still looks so big. What's the reason for that?
This can be due to a few possibilities:
Most likely cause is that birth is a complex process and can cause some swelling.
The next most likely that your ewe was overweight prior to becoming pregnant and she still held that weight after birth. This happens when they are given too much grain/feed each day.
It is hard to say which is the cause without seeing the ewe in person, if you are concerned for her health you should seek a veterinarian's services to be sure.
I have 1 ram and two ewe's all over a year old and they won't get pregnant. not sure what to do. one ewe is very scared of everything and won't let the ram mount. the other ewe is small and gets picked on by both the other ewe and the ram - they eat her coat and run her off. I don't believe she allows the ram to mount her either. what can I do to get them pregnant? they're not under fed or over fed.
My first guess would be nutrition if an animal isn't getting pregnant. Just like humans we can have plenty of food available to us but if it doesn't provide the nutrition our bodies need it is essentially the same thing as being underfed. If they are being fed hay on our farm they are also receiving a pound of a feed ration that the local mill mixes for us by the ton. This ration has some grains, multiple minerals, vitamins etc specific to sheep diet needs. They are also given access to free choice minerals year round. While they are on pasture they only receive free choice minerals because the growing grasses are far more nutritious than hay. As far as a ewe not letting a ram mount her that is reason to cull in my operation. The ewe and ram picking on another isn't completely unusual but the eating of its fur is odd behavior that again leads me to a nutrition deficiency
@@FreedomFarmsMo thank you so much! 🙂 You have given me a path forward. I appreciate you guys. God bless.
@@MEAToftheWORDsermons4theMATURE you're welcome God bless you too
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Hi, I have a question. About three weeks ago we had a coyote come in and kill four out of seven of our sheep, including our Ram. Very sad. I was almost 100% positive that my two out of three surviving ewes were pregnant. They both have teats. One progressively is getting bigger. Her bag is getting bigger, so thank you for the video today. My question is regarding the other one. She does have teats. Her belly hangs kind of low, but she doesn’t seem as round as she was before.. There’s no rounded Ness from the back end. Have you ever had them miscarry?. I’m just wondering if she’s just not as far along and just has the teats that’s really the only sign. I just wonder if the trauma caused her to miscarry. She seems totally healthy and acts perfect and like I said it’s been over three weeks.
It's possible that she is simply not as far a long. It is also possible she miscarried. Without being present to examine it is hard to say honestly. She could also simply be overweight even and maybe her teets were always that size fo begin with. If her bag is filling with milk though that is a clear indicator of pregnancy. But that also won't be til towards the end of the pregnancy. Sorry we couldn't be of more help.
Thank you! She’s looking bigger so I’m hoping she is pregnant 🙏🏻♥️
@@kimberlyburdick866 you're welcome. I hope so too 👍
What a sad story 😞. I’m praying you have lots of lambs and can start again.
I have four Ewe'e and on 3 of them their. Nipples are starting to grow, does that mean that their pregnant?
That is a sign of pregnancy as well. However just make sure their teets are not becoming red/hot to the touch as that would be a sign of infection such as mastitis.
@@FreedomFarmsMo Thanks my Rosie had twins on Jan. 25th and their already nibbling on grass. I believe my hair sheep is going to deliver within the next few weeks her bag has started to drop. I've touch her and there's no milk developing yet. My mentor says it should be in a could be ready in a couple of weeks before she give birth.
That's wonderful! When their bags start to drop there is typically not milk in them until a few days to a week before birth. That is because there is not a sensor in the utter for the ewe to realize she is full on milk and doesn't need to make any. Once they give birth if the lamb doesn't eat off of them within so long they look for it because it starts to become a little painful for them as the other gets full and they still are producing milk and gets really full which is what causes a painful reminder to get their baby to eat. It is that time of year though when most folks start to lamb and I'm sure that you're going to enjoy it. Good luck and I hope it's some good healthy lambs!
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G I really appreciate your help and info.
You're welcome, that is why we started this channel. There are a bunch of large generational farms on RUclips but hardly any that show the struggle of starting a farm and sharing knowledge for others who want to do the same thing
How can you tell when your single ewes are pregnant? When the vet gives you the baa'd news.
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Baaaaaaaaaaaahaha
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If brother and sister breed what will happen?
Just like when humans inbreed it will cause health issues. Alot of folks say you can get away with breeding father to daughter and have no issues. However why take the risk when you can remove that ram and replace him with a new one and avoid the whole problem to begin with?
How old are the baby's before they can get pregnant
They can get pregnant as early as 6 months but ideally we prefer them to be at least 10 months before being bred. It's better for the ewe and for the lambs she will produce
@@FreedomFarmsMo thank you
You're welcome
Please add comments about when sheep should be in the barn. My men think they don’t ever need a barn. Grrr
We have three barns!
Ours are only in the barn from Dec 15th through March 15th because our climate is prone to freezing rain, we also collect the manure, used bedding, and hay residue from the barn throughout the winter to spread on the hayfield. It makes our lambing season easier for us as well since we both have full-time jobs. However with all of that being said they do NOT need to be in a barn. It makes our life simpler and saves some money for our farm
What's wrong w that sheep's leg?
We are not 100% sure but the mastitis infection can sometimes transfer into other portions of their body and what we believe happened is that it got so bad in her that it started to transfer into her leg. However on a brighter note it is actually gotten better her mastitis is almost cleared up and her leg is much better.
@@FreedomFarmsMo good to hear it's not getting bbaaaaaaaaaader! Lol
Ima dork lol
Don't worry we find ourselves making the exact same jokes. Sometimes when we're working with the sheep we will yell hey you no ewe! Like they're going to actually listen to us 😂
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I wish I would've thought of that. . .
There are so many jokes with ewe and baaa 🐑
Brother we can only her bahhhh notnyour voice
Our older videos audio was rough our newer videos are much better. Sorry about that