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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Rosemary on May 19, 2009, 10:14:08 am

Title: We've finished lambing at last!
Post by: Rosemary on May 19, 2009, 10:14:08 am

One of the drawbacks of only having three ewes is that lambing seems to take forever. But Jura produced a ewe lamb last night, so that's us done. She did it all by herself and the lamb was up and wobbling around when we went to do a final check at 9pm. It's our only ewe lamb, so we'll be keeping her. Dan now has to pick a name starting with L.

Title: Re: We've finished lambing at last!
Post by: dixie on May 19, 2009, 10:30:51 am

Ah its a nice sense of relief when its all over and you can enjoy your lambs! how many did you have?

Title: Re: We've finished lambing at last!
Post by: Rosemary on May 19, 2009, 05:05:25 pm

Three - two boys and a girl. So Juno, Jura and Jinx have one each - and they seem to be fine, which was my main priority.

The wee girl will be Lyra (courtesy of Dan and Philip Pullman!).

Title: Re: We've finished lambing at last!
Post by: shetlandpaul on May 19, 2009, 09:50:55 pm

were still waiting for our Cheviot's. The poor Shetland ram must have chickened out or he was too short. We thought they were pregnant if not the need a diet.