[Old Shep]

Hi everyone - its getting exciting here, as we near our sheeps due dates!  The sheep belong to my son (Big Benny Shep - doesn't post much just lurks :-) ) , he has forty odd sheep at his land to lamb and I have 16 shearings ( no "L jaykay  ) here at ours.  He gave me the shearings to lamb on the pretext of having smaller hands    They are texels and texel x suffolks put to texel, suffolk and texel x suffolk tups.  The flock are what remains of my late mothers, who farmed sheep all her life.  Ben worked weekends with her for many years so has a lot of experience but this will be our first lambing year on our own.  

I just want to say thankyou for all the advice I have gleaned from everyone else's posts, and thank you in advance for any panicky posts you may get from me in the next few weeks!

[Rosemary]

 

We start on Sunday or thereabouts. Although I THINK I'm prepared, the girls usually have something up their metaphorcal sleeves 

[Old Shep]

Ours are due next thursday if you go by 150 days - so we will be on watch from this weekend onwards.  Had one (which we have named "wide load"!!) rigged today - but hadn't been stuck for long by the looks of it. The fun's beginning!

[Herdygirl]

We start April the 5th? or thereabouts.... babies come when they come.

just back from the totally brilliant VSS course......what an exeperience!

have re arranged my lambing shed as a consequense..makes more sense now

[Old Shep]

good luck Herdy, we tried to aim for lambing over easter so we didn't have to take to much time off work - time will tell if the plan works!

[Haylo-peapod]

have re arranged my lambing shed as a consequense..makes more sense now

OK, I'm now very curious, what's the story on rearranging the lambing shed?