Lessons From Five Years Of Sheep Birthing Season - EP 1124

Today, we talk about lessons learned after four (or five?) seasons of birthing lambs at the Holler Homestead. We will also cover all our usual Tuesday segments like Tales from the Prepper Pantry, Seasonal Forage and more.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

Used up beef from the been canning webinar of 2022 (Beef stew)

Will be harvesting the first lettuces soon from the outside gardens

Giving all storage here a big facelift with the help of Opalyn

Cutting up 3 Eyes of Round

RIP Claire the Fridge (The freezer/fridge combo)

Frugality Tip From Nicole

Freeze dried meals with a thermos, OR lunch pail thermos

Operation Independence

3 Beef Rounds for the workshop

Main topic: Lessons learned from 5 birthing seasons

Make a management decision

>rotation vs single pasture and medications

>Interventions vs survival of the fittest

>Hair vs wool

Finding strong Stock

Pasture Birthing Bag

>gloves

>Lube

>thermometer

>towels

>Alcohol or other sterilizer

(Basiic first aid is already at the pasture)

Home Lamb Support Kit

>Colostrum

>Bottles

>Milk Replacer

>Pee pads from Sam's club

>Dog crate

>Diapers if you will go this route

>Lamb-dedicated towels

>Hair dryer or heat lamp

>Temperature probes

>Heating box

>Sous Vide

>Mason jars

>Funnel

>thermometer

>more gloves

>lamb probiotics

Things to prepare for in birthing

>Stuck lamb

>Breach Lamb

>Sideways lamb

>Cold Lamb

>Dopey lamb

>Low milk production from mom

>Lamb not breathing

>prolapse

Great resources

>All Creatures Great and Small, etc

>Laura Lawson Lamb Problems another references

>get a sheep mentor

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