The Last of the Lambs

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White lamb with brown eyes, nose and ears!

Our last lambs were born today- two more ewe lambs, yeah! These belong to #801, who was a small yearling who did not look very big-in-the-belly, so she surprised us with twins! It’s a relief to have all the lambing over with, I plan to move all the sheep back down to the pasture on Saturday. The grass is growing, so the timing is good.

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Our lamb crop statistics this year, for what they’re worth with a small lot of sheep:

  • 200% lamb crop (6 ewes, 12 lambs born)
  • 17% mortality (2 lambs died)
  • 7 ewes, 3 rams 
  • All but one ewe lambed during the day-very nice!

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