[Fleecewife]

So far this season all our lambs have been born at dawn, no problems. Yesterday afternoon things went a bit differently.  We had a huge storm, with torrential rain and thunder - OH went out just for a routine check and found Lunan (aka Loonie, with good reason) in the middle of a field, about to produce her first lamb ever.  Suddenly there was a huge flash of lightening, which hit the ground about half a mile away, followed by an enormous thunderclap, at which precise moment Lunan's lamb popped out     OH left them for a bit to mother up then moved them into one of the field shelters (not easy in Loonie's case)   Fortunately Hebridean lambs are born with a very thick birth coat so the little ewe took her dramatic arrival and total drenching very much in her stride.  (OH wasn't so happy with the drenching he got  )

When it comes to naming her, something like Storm or Thora (as you didn't want it for your calf Sally  ) sounds right.  Any other ideas?

[MrsJ]

Donner is German for thunder..... but perhaps this could be misunderstood (as in "kebab")!

[jaykay]

Storm is good  Flash, Lightning, Trouble......

[Fleecewife]

Donner is German for thunder..... but perhaps this could be misunderstood (as in "kebab")!

 

Trouble sounds good - and probably appropriate given her mothers record so far     We have had a Black Lightening - a Soay tup known for his speedy work - so that's out.......

So far Storm is winning 

[kanisha]

Electra

[Fleecewife]

Electra

Yes I love that 

Updated - we've decided to go with Electra - goddess of lightbulbs and old motorbikes. 

Thank you Kanisha     

Now we need to think of names for the rest of the lambs on the same theme - gods and goddesses.  I think we'll give Terry Pratchet's goddess of kitchen drawers and lost utensils, Anoia a miss.

[SteveHants]

Nice to hear your lambing went well in spite of the weather. 

I can't bring myself to name my sheep though, so I have no useful suggestions....

[Fleecewife]

Nice to hear your lambing went well in spite of the weather. 

I can't bring myself to name my sheep though, so I have no useful suggestions....

Thank you    Just one more to go, so fingers crossed.

Back when we kept Jacobs I could identify individual carcases when they came back to the butcher from the abattoir, so they were all named in the freezer and we knew just who we were eating (tended to name them after family members too  )   Apart from putting vistors off their food (all the more for us  ) it was a way of learning how the individual animals characteristics and growth affected meat and eating quality.  Now our Hebs tend to be the same size so harder to identify individually, although Soays are still named in the freezer.
However, Electra and her sisters are all destined for registration and to become breeding ewes, so names are needed for their papers 

[Rosemary]

We name our ewes (plus the tup and the wether, Leo and Dickie (Dickie had a white streak on his head as a lamb, that made him look like Dickie Davies) - this year's an S year so we've got Sweetpea, Star, Stella and Smudge. Two boys last night so no names required and one lamb still to come.

Love Electra 

[colliewoman]

Pleeeeaaaaaaaase recycle one of my old cats names and keep.................

Tempest alive in a little sheepy way. He was the best cat ever and even once caught a sparrowhawk

[Fronhaul]

Now you have put me in a quandry Colliewoman.  Tempest is a great name and I am highly tempted to use it for the best Shetland ram lamb we have had so far but then I have Summer and Winter growing on ready for the tup next year and Tempest would be ideal to carry on that theme with them.

With the exception of the Shetlands, who need names if they are to be registered, the ewes have to earn a name here.  So we have a Mrs Pushy, a Matriach, Lucky (who wasn't so lucky when I ran her over with my quad although she survived the incident without serious injury and probably I ended up suffering more than she did), and a number of other names that mainly tend to identify the core ewes and some of their offspring.

In any event may I use Tempest at some point please?

[colliewoman]

Abolutely

The more the merrier!

[Muttley94]

This put a smile on my face Fleecewife and what a great name!
My Jacob ewe still needs a name if anyone has any suggestions?

[Fleecewife]

This put a smile on my face Fleecewife and what a great name!
My Jacob ewe still needs a name if anyone has any suggestions?

Post a pic so we can see what she looks like.......

ps my last ewe produced twin tup lambs this morning, so we have finished lambing after only two weeks.  Don't know what to do now    Not true of course, there's a huge list of things, but they don't include two hourly checks 

[jaykay]

Finished lambing! Woohoo 
I've got six to go, in theory all over the weekend. Hmmm, we'll see