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So Cap’s bottle lamb has been christened “Basil,” and is living her dream life as a bottle-raised lamb at Deer Hollow Farm, and educational farm in Mountain View, where she charms visitors, including these first graders.

The last lambs of the season are greeted with as much joy as the first…

Cap took matters into her own hands in the barn last night…

The sad day comes each lambing season when Linda has to head home…

Daisy had a surprise for Lolo and Melinda this morning…

Linda braved blizzards to get here this year…

Aulait gave us our first Moorit ewe-lamb today…

Our March Madness has finished before the end of March! Our lambing wound up early this morning at 1:20 am, when Mist gave birth to a beautiful black 3/4 Cormo girl. Prince is her father, and with Mist as her mother, we wanted to keep with the weather theme, so Lisa named her Princess Virga.

It is almost the end of lambing and unlike other years when I CAN’T WAIT for it to be over, this year I’m feeling a bit bittersweet about the end of lambing. We have been very fortunate this season, with really excellent ewe health, high fertility, but not too high, all the ewes pregnant, but

We have been lambing for a full month now (our first lambs were born February 16th) and most of that time we have been deluged with one atmospheric river after another, and really cold temperatures also. Finally we have a few days of warm sunshine, although another storm is due this weekend. And, with only