lambing

Last Lambs

Our last lambs of the season were born on Tuesday, March 21st! Cousin, the last ewe, was looking like she was in the early stages of labor all day on Monday, but she didn’t progress. I checked the barn camera every hour from midnight onward, and she was up and down a lot but not

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Quints!

I woke up this morning and checked the barn camera and there was Melinda, who is on the early shift, with lambs in the barn. I called and asked “who is it?” She replied, “Blackbird. And you aren’t going to believe this: five girls!” Blackbird had our first quintuplets ever, and they all were girls!

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Fresh Salad

This ewe, who we’ve been calling Blue Streak because of a mysterious blue stripe that showed up on her side after shearing (can’t figure what she rubbed up against, or maybe it is grease from John’s clippers?), has been under the weather off and on for the past week. Some ewes get weak before lambing

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Snake Eyes

Snake Eyes, a two-year old ewe named by Lisa during milking season last year because each of her teats has a perfect black dot right at it’s tip (leave it to Lisa, who always comes up with hilarious names!), was out of sorts all day today. Snake Eyes is quite a character, a very intense

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