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3/15/2015

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The other night a ewe lambed a set of twins and she did not want her babies. This is our first experience with a mother completely rejecting her lambs. After they were born she would not sniff them or even begin to clean them, she walked away without a second glance. With the below freezing temperatures that night we needed to bring them in the house before their body temperatures dropped too much.
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Bixler has always wanted to help with the lambs. When one has to come in he is anxious to help clean, these twins provided him with more than enough opportunity.   
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Look at those legs! Finally getting warm and stretching out. Our lambs this year have been leggy.
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After the lambs were all dried off and given a bottle of colostrum, we took the babies back out to their mother, hoping she would take them.  After a day it was obvious that she was not going to accept her lambs.  We decided to pull them from their mother and bottle feed them.
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We try to avoid bottle lambs.  It is and extra three-times-a-day chore and we prefer babies to be with their mother. However, this situation was unavoidable this year.  Lambing season has officially ended. More updates to come.  
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