I have been feeding in the afternoon between 3-6 for 4 years now. I have had 3 ewes delivery in the early morning, before 8am, 1 during the lunch hours and the rest in the evenings, starting around 6pm and finishing by 7:30pm. The ones that delivered in the morning--2 blackbellies, 1 cheviot, lunchtime was a Finn, the evenings were an icelandic and finn.
My belief is it's just like humans, when the babies are ready, they will come out. You know this is the one thing Drs and others have never been able to pinpoint an exact predictor. Most of my ewes started nesting the day they delivered. Nancy L. Johnson imgr8a...@comcast.net cell: 301 440 4808 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Natasha" <meadowskuv...@gmail.com> To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 8:06:49 PM Subject: [Blackbelly] Fact or Fiction? Hi again, This is what one person told me about feeding grain. If you feed grain between 10 am and 2 pm you are more likely to have your lambs in the afternoon. If you grain them in the evening you are sure to have lambing at night. Is this just an "old wives tale" or is there anything to this? Last time around I had lambing in the wee hours of the morning and lambing in the early afternoon. I try to grain in the day because of this advice of which I am a little suspicious of seeing that it didn't hold true for both girls. It seems a little ridiculous to me - I would think they come when they come but this person held herself to be an "expert" and I know that I am not. So, what of your experiences? Do tell! I am all ears. Thanks, Natasha _______________________________________________ This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info _______________________________________________ This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info
