There's a better wife.
If it wasn't for my wife last night we would have dead lambs for sure. She normally doesn't go out to see what we are doing, especially not at night. About 1:00 am my wife chased me out of bed. She had gone to look and saw a ewe lamb lambing, but it wouldn't let her get close. Went out and pulled it(nose was cold already as it had taken a little long) She wouldn't lick it so went to empty the hot box. In front of the hot box was a half frozen lamb,(as in very cold that it's neck was stiff and legs not functioning)Beside that was the mother with 1 dry lamb and bawling for this one. Behind that was a ewe that had just dropped 1 lamb out of 3. My wife ran in to get a pail of hot water to drop the frozen one in, I emptied the hot box and dragged the no good mother and baby into it. By then the ewe behind had all 3 out and only could lick 1 at a time so I kept stacking them on each other as I waited for help. Wife showed up with hot water and I started bathing frozen one. I told my wife to go get more help. In she went and came out with 2 of the girls. As they dealt with the 3 triplets I was trying to get the frozen one thawed. When they had the triplets in the warm trailer they took over the frozen one, started milking it's mother and feeding it, drying it off. As they did that I was in the hot box getting that lamb top suck on it's mother. She stood very nice which was a blessing as she didn't lick it once and had never been penned tight before. got that one dried with rags and sucking and back to the frozen one i went. We moved that one into the trailer and with rubbing and hair drier got it warmed up. Got it sucking yet and then back to bed. Took about 2 hours total.
Thanks to a wife that goes out when I don't wake up we had no dead lambs.
going to post pics yet
If it wasn't for my wife last night we would have dead lambs for sure. She normally doesn't go out to see what we are doing, especially not at night. About 1:00 am my wife chased me out of bed. She had gone to look and saw a ewe lamb lambing, but it wouldn't let her get close. Went out and pulled it(nose was cold already as it had taken a little long) She wouldn't lick it so went to empty the hot box. In front of the hot box was a half frozen lamb,(as in very cold that it's neck was stiff and legs not functioning)Beside that was the mother with 1 dry lamb and bawling for this one. Behind that was a ewe that had just dropped 1 lamb out of 3. My wife ran in to get a pail of hot water to drop the frozen one in, I emptied the hot box and dragged the no good mother and baby into it. By then the ewe behind had all 3 out and only could lick 1 at a time so I kept stacking them on each other as I waited for help. Wife showed up with hot water and I started bathing frozen one. I told my wife to go get more help. In she went and came out with 2 of the girls. As they dealt with the 3 triplets I was trying to get the frozen one thawed. When they had the triplets in the warm trailer they took over the frozen one, started milking it's mother and feeding it, drying it off. As they did that I was in the hot box getting that lamb top suck on it's mother. She stood very nice which was a blessing as she didn't lick it once and had never been penned tight before. got that one dried with rags and sucking and back to the frozen one i went. We moved that one into the trailer and with rubbing and hair drier got it warmed up. Got it sucking yet and then back to bed. Took about 2 hours total.
Thanks to a wife that goes out when I don't wake up we had no dead lambs.
going to post pics yet