Author Topic: It's hailing so lambs are coming! (Read 1909 times)

Garmoran · « **on:** April 12, 2015, 11:20:56 am »

Lambing started last weekend, and until yesterday it was perfect lambing weather. So how many lambs had arrived by Friday night? A grand total of 6, including one set of twins.

Driving hail in my face at 7.30 yesterday morning, temperature has dropped 5 degrees and there's a freezing wind from the northwest, which fortunately we are sheltered from. So needless to say, 4 ewes have lambed in the last 24 hours. I hope they keep on coming, though, as there are 16 with yellow backsides which need to lamb before Wednesday, when they will be joined by 12 more with red backsides.

mowhaugh · « **Reply #1 on:** April 12, 2015, 11:27:00 am »

Same here! Ours seemed to have got stuck, only had about 5 per day for the last 4 days or so, leaving us with about 240 to go at a time when we would have expected to have under 30. Can't decide if this is a good thing, as my baby is due now, so good that they are getting on, but horrid for lambs.

Fleecewife · « **Reply #2 on:** April 12, 2015, 11:47:37 am »

Your ewes look as if they're managing just fine Garmoran

Typical though isn't it that they deliver in the blizzards, having lain around for ages sunbathing when it was nice.

Best of luck with your own delivery Mowhaugh. We'll want pics of the new arrival

mowhaugh · « **Reply #3 on:** April 12, 2015, 12:16:05 pm »

Total whiteout here now, if we get snowed in all the sheep are bound to lamb at once and I am bound to go into labour. Hadn't planned for a home birth, though!

Rosemary · « **Reply #4 on:** April 12, 2015, 12:42:51 pm »

Quote from: mowhaugh on April 12, 2015, 12:16:05 pm

Hadn't planned for a home birth, though!

At least you'll have all the equipment to hand - ropes 'n' that

Garmoran · « **Reply #5 on:** April 12, 2015, 01:21:57 pm »

Quote from: mowhaugh on April 12, 2015, 12:16:05 pm

Total whiteout here now, if we get snowed in all the sheep are bound to lamb at once and I am bound to go into labour. Hadn't planned for a home birth, though!

Hmm you seem to be at one of those busy points in life! Exciting though!

Fortunately my own children arrived at fairly quiet points of the year, although a trip to Glasgow last month in horrendous rain to celebrate an 18th birthday made me realize how lucky I was when trailing back and forth to Inverness in March 1997.