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28.05.2012 11:26

Busy weekend

Saturday morning, after feeding the horses, we moved Vordís and Þokkadís to a different field where they have a bit more peace. No nosy youngsters disturbing them all the time. Vordís' filly just followed her mum like a shadow, but somehow I think she's not gonna do that for very long as she ist really nosy.
After having quick lunch we went to Hólmavað, where we were supposed to watch over the lambing ewes while Ella and Bensi were not home. The last times I did that, not a single ewe was giving birth, but it was different that day. Bensi and Ella showed us, what we had to do for the already born lambs as there were some having difficulties drinking. With 2 their mum didn't allow them to drink and one more had difficulties to get started so you had to help it and milk a bit before it was able to do it on its own. The plan with the lambs their mum didn't want was to smuggle one of them under another ewe that was just getting one lamb. When Ella and Bensi left, there was one already giving birth and got 2 big rams. Ingólfur helped her a bit getting the lambs out as they had quite big horns. She was taking really good care of them, being busy cleaning them.
When everything was calm again we had some coffee and afterwards Ingólfur went to try and catch some delicious fish in Laxá. I made myself comfortable in the stable and checked regularly on the ewes if there wouldn't be one to start giving birth. Finally a grey ewe started and according to the books she was just with one lamb. So best to prepare everything to smuggle one lamb under her. Hrund and Kristján were already home again and told me what their dad is doing in a situation like that. We had to catch the amniotic fluid in a bucket and then bathe the lamb we wanted the ewe to foster in it. First we had to help her a bit as her own lamb was really big and not so eager to get out of the warm and cosy place ;) Ingólfur bathed the little ram completely in amniotic fluid and put him with the ewe that was straight away trying to clean the little guy. But the only thing he was thinking about was getting to the milk bar ;) We hope they are getting along well.
It was time to think about our dinner and so Ingólfur went to prepare pizza with the kids. There was another ewe giving birth but unfortunately the lamb didn't come the right way, you could just see the nose but not the legs. So I had to get the huge glove (gonna ask Bensi to order some smaller too next year) and try to get the legs in the right position. Awfully little room in a sheep... Had to push the head back to get my hand in and find the legs. That went well and after helping a bit she gave birth to a big ewe. The second lamb came without help. Afterwards the other sheep decided to wait again for Bensi ;)
Kristján and Ingólfur went fishing again and brought home a quite big trout.
We were both quite tired when we came home, but happy that everything went well.

Sunday morning we made a new fence and in the afternoon Ingólfur showed Negla on the track in Einarsstaðir as her owner was thinking about letting her show in a breeding show. He was really happy about what he saw and called a lady that will show her. So we left Negla in Helluland and took Kapteinn instead back home. Bjössi and Ingólfur are going to train him together. 







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