Re: [blackbelly] Ewe Pregnant Twice?

2007-04-10 Thread Terry
If I recall, Sheep have two "horns" to the uterus. And like many animals with such an arrangement, one can maintain a pregnancy in one horn while 'expelling' a pregnancy in another. Nature's redundancy can be helpfull this way. Many rabbit breeders I communicate with indicate that the need to rem

Re: [blackbelly] Ewe Pregnant Twice?

2007-04-08 Thread Peg Haese KB9LIE
Hi, Mary, friends of ours had a Dorset who lambed twice, 17 days or one cycle apart. They knew both lambs were hers for sure. Both were healthy. I have heard about that happening to other ewes also. Rare but not impossible. Please keep us posted on the ewe's condition. Peg Haese in chilly SW Wisc

[blackbelly] Ewe Pregnant Twice?

2007-04-08 Thread Mary Swindell
Breeder Friends, I hope you can help me with a strange problem. I have a ewe who gave birth to a large (6.75 lb.) and healthy single ram lamb on March 13th. Her earliest possible 5-month due date was April 1st, so this lamb was 18 days premature. My ewe had no milk at all. After keeping th