[rockstar]

hi from llyswen powys

[FiB]

  from Bala N Wales.  No lambing for us yet (had a ridiculous notion about letting my first ewe lambs have a 'childhood' !!!!) so will enjoy hearing about yours!  Pob Luc!

[Pel]

Hello from west-wales 

[in the hills]

A special hello to everyone here in Wales

Yes, FiB, we waited too. Our girls are in their second year. As primitives they seemed so small and are of course slow to mature anyway so let them kick their heels and be fancy free for a while!!!

[squeasy]

Hi Squeasy

Hope all goes well for you ....keep us posted. Ours are due anytime from the 21st March but hope it will be a couple of weeks later than that date.

We have 7 ladies and the visiting ram, who will be with us until around June. He s lovely but has quite an attitude! Hope they lamb without much intervention otherwise the lad will be in another paddock for a while ...wont stand for anyone messing with his girls!!!!

We had to move Carlos our ram out of the field where the three heavily pregnant ewes were as he became very shall we say amorous!!!  He was constantly at podita for the whole day before she lambed.  Then whilst Podita was having her difficult lambing he was not bothered with her and instead started on Millie.  We got him moved in another paddock with his other three ladies who are due end of April/ early May.  I really would not have trusted him to leave the ewe alone if she had not been struggling.  You may need to move yours.  I look forward to hearing more about the Soays.

[in the hills]

Ah, thanks Squeasy. We will keep a close eye on him. He is on loan to us and know that he remained with the ewes during lambing time last year when he was with someone else. Can see that it may not be comfortable to attend to any lambing difficulties with him around though because he is quite spirited and we never turn our back on him just in case.That said, he hasnt caused any real problems yet apart from putting our very lively dog firmly in his place.My neighbour told me that sheep very quickly work out when a dog is no threat to them .....how true!
Poor Alf!!!

Good to have another Soay keeper to chat to.