A couple of days ago my very widest Heb ewe started some behaviour I've seen before but never going on for so long. She started rushing around the paddocks, shouting and calling for her lambs, checking out everyone else's to make sure they weren't hers, and generally being a bereft mother. The thing was, she hadn't lambed yet
. When another, bottom of the pecking order ewe started to lamb, I was sure Lunan would try to steal the lambs, but she didn't
just carried on dementedly searching for her own.
Eventually, during last night she produced a giant single ewe lamb - just the one from that enormous overstuffed sofa-type belly
She's shut up at last, but at least we had due warning she was about to lamb.
Always something interesting going on
So she's the last of our Hebs to lamb, all problem-free. Just the big fat lazy Shetlands to go