The last lambs of the season are greeted with as much joy as the first! With this white boy and black girl, our Corriedale ewe Cinder brought out lambing season to a close. We are DONE! We have sixty beautiful lambs from 35 ewes and we met all my breeding goals.
What’s more, it was a really smooth lambing season. All the ewes we bred got pregnant and carried their pregnancies to term, and they all got pregnant on their first cycle, meaning lambing was over just three weeks after it began! As I was putting away lambing supplies today I marveled at all the supplies we never used. We never needed to tube-feed a lamb, never needed to treat for lamb scours, did not need to do one single uterine intervention for a complicated delivery. The most complicated deliveries we had were a few huge lambs that needed to be pulled out once they were almost there, and one or two born back-feet-first. We had three still-births but no neonatal deaths. No cases of pregnancy toxemia or milk-fever, no ewes with vaginal prolapse. Last year I said that was the best lambing season ever, and it was, but I think this year surpasses it!
