[raygezer]

Hi all being a newbie to keeping sheep had a surprise first thing this morning doing my rounds feeding the animals heard a different sound coming from the sheep barn 2 lambs had arrived overnight ,great then this afternoon i saw a ewe on her own pawing the ground so i thought i wud stick around for a while glad i did the lamb was so big the head wouldn't come out so after a while i helped it mother ewe and lamb doing well not bad for a first time really pleased and all this with not knowing when they were going to lamb 1 more ewe to go i think   

[andywalt]

well done, congrats, but where are the photos we all like to see you know !!

hope to see the pics soon


andy

[dyedinthewool]

Well done you - must be great surprise.

Post some piccies of the babies and their mums.

[faith0504]

i bet its a lovely feeling, well done, photos please 

[Fleecewife]

It's a wonderful moment isn't it when you hear that little sound and you realise you have lambs - one of the best joys of spring  .

[VSS]

Spring won't be here for another two months yet. Sub Zero here.

[Fleecewife]

Same here, but you know what I mean    A harbinger of spring then?

[OhLaLa]

Photo's photo's!!

 

And what breed are they?

 

[raygezer]

  Well Ive done the tails and the boys bits it made me go cold but its got to be done , not sure why the forum wont let me down load pics but still
trying not my forte in life

[TheCaptain]

In the additional options tab down the bottom when you're posting a reply there is the 'attachments' option.  Click browse, find your photo, click open.  If you want to add more click on the 'more attachments' bit.  Just make sure your phots have been compressed/resized otherwise they won't upload!

[morri2]

Well done with your new arrivals!!  I have trouble getting  pics on the forum too - hopefully The Captain's tips will help me too.  Look forward to seeing your pics.

[raygezer]

 the Captain
 thats helped but now the pics need to be a smller size help if you can sorry for being a pain im all right with an abacas!!

[OhLaLa]

Can you resize them? About 500 x 500 (the second 500 is appx) is an ok size.

[waterhouse]

Matty has just had her twins, one of each, outdoors in the paddock but at a helpful 6pm.  She is a much better mother than Jill, much more diligent with licking and making a deep gruntling noise at them.  Jill had more of the "oh not again, well if you must" attitude.  The lambs are lighter at around 1.7kg though she looked like a tank for the last few weeks.  Both suckling happily under the heat lamp now.

When the second started coming we thought we'd have trouble because the head appeared, then one front leg but a damn great push and out he came only a few minutes after the first.  These Dartmoors seem to be good at lambing, perhaps because the lamb is small?

[raygezer]

 when I took on the sheep I really wasn't sure if I would take to them but hey I think they are great animals love being around them and now I reckon they have taken to me well at feeding times anyway,Still doing things for the first time today we put the eartags in and trimmed the ewes feet which were over grown ,one question if somebody could help me with does electric fencing work with sheep if it does any tip please it works well with my horses ,sheep ??