Welcome on our “Living on a farm in Slovakia – Blog”. In May 2008 we have bought a smallholding in Slovakia without ever having seen it and we have moved to our farm in September 2008. Since then we have started to get acquainted with our neighbours, learn the Slovak language, renovate the house, regain our land from nature and we have actually started to farm on our land in spring 2009. On this blog you can follow our progress and setbacks. Have fun reading it!
Monday, February 27, 2012
Lamb care
New life deserves a decent welcome. Our ewes are left in or close to the herd to lamb so they wont get extra stress. After that it is: clip - dip - strip - sip
- clip long umbilical cords (if necessary)
- dip them in iodine
- strip the wax plug out of the ewe's teats
- and be sure that the lamb sips some colostrum as soon as possible if necessary with some assistance
Then mother and baby go to our lambing stable where they often receive a warm welcome from the other mothers. For the records all lambs are weighted as well. Now six pens in the stable are occupied, soon some sheep will move back to the herd.
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