RE: It rained

Nope, but we will if it looks necessary. Mom's got what looks like
plenty of capacity, all 3 of them are getting about equal time, and we
had one ewe raise triplets last year without needing to supplement. So
we'll just watch for now.  
I hope it works this time too, because teaching them to switch back and
forth from a bottle to a teat is pretty frustrating. 

Cyndi

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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of james singer
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 2:14 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] It rained

I hope you're bottle feeding one of the lambs. Momma's only got two
teats and the lambs get pretty aggressive about making one exclusively
their own.

On Feb 12, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:

> So we finally got rain! Almost a quarter inch, gosh, don't know where 
> all that moisture is going to go. It was cloudy but warm Saturday, we 
> got the rain that night, then cloudy and warm again on Sunday. Today 
> it's windy.
> We came home Friday evening to a nice surprise, one of our ewes had 
> given birth to triplets. Three little ewe lambs. Everyone was on their

> feet, dry and clean, and nursing. I am so glad no intervention was 
> needed and I'm just hoping the next two are as uneventful. From the 
> looks of them I'm thinking it may be two weeks to a month before 
> everyone's done, their timing has been better in the past but as long 
> as we don't need to assist anyone I will be happy.
> Anyway the rest of our weekend was yard maintenance and social events,

> I managed to put down some mulch and pull a couple weeds but that was 
> it.
> Didn't plant my tomato seeds but I still have plenty of time. I'm 
> trying not to look at the dry garden much, hoping that there's life 
> under all that dead stuff. But the opuntia looks maybe a little better

> after the rain. Could be wishful thinking but maybe. I didn't even get

> to go hiking - my friend fell while we were out two weeks ago and hurt

> pretty bad. They've decided she has a compression fracture of a 
> vertebrae so it will be months before she's up to much. It's just not 
> that fun going by myself but hopefully I'll replace that time with 
> garden chores instead of loafing around reading the paper or 
> something.
> My daffodils are up about six inches and the galanthus is blooming, at

> least the ones that didn't get frozen. No plant activity anywhere else

> that I can see.
>
> Cyndi
>
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Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.1 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Sunset Zone 25
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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