lambing

Squirt is thriving, and growing as fast as he can!

With only 4 ewes left to lamb, we have 71 lambs from 28 ewes…

Scooter was hanging around in the shelter yesterday while all the other ewes grazed…

Bonnet surprised us this morning…

Every time a ewe lambs with triplets, I say “YAY, we’re still at 300%!”

We are at nearly 300% lambing efficiency. If they aren’t having triplets, they are having quads…

Lolita the lamb-stealer didn’t have to wait long for a family of her own…

One of the tiniest lambs we’ve ever had was born yesterday afternoon, at just over 3 pounds…

Lambing began yesterday: Melinda arrived in the barn at 5 am to find that Brown Betty, a first-time mother, had delivered triplets in the night…

It was a beautiful day yesterday, and we decided all the lambs are old enough for everyone to move outside for good. The young lambs and their mothers joined the older lambs who were already outside with their mothers in the Hilltop pasture, and the “single mothers”–mothers of singles, who we are milking every morning