A few days ago
Girlie gave birth to triplets. The next two days it snowed and we
were quite concerned as we knew Diamond and Blackie were also due.
Normally it is
best if sheep lamb in the spring, or at least later in the winter,
but this spring we had an incident and did not quite get rid of our
ram when we should have and he happened to breed three of the ewes
while they still had their lambs with them from this past spring. We
were not aware of this until a few weeks ago when it was quite clear
that three ewes were getting udders. Diamond was the largest.
On Monday, October 8,
Canadian Thanksgiving, one of these ewes, Girlie, had triplets. The
next couple of days were bad as the weather turned nasty and we even
got snow. Today it rained. I was at work when half way through the
day my daughter called to say that Blackie sheep (who had been a bottle baby lamb a few years earlier) had twins.
My daughter said
she knew there were some lambs because she could see Crystal, the
llama, standing near the old barn with her head trying to poke into
the barn. Crystal loves lambs, whenever there are new lambs she
wants to get near and smell them. My daughter picked up the two
lambs and carried them to the proper barn (where Girlie and her
triplets have been kept indoors because her triplets are tiny and the
weather is cold), Blackie followed well, which is good, sometimes the ewes panic and run around looking for the lambs.
When I got home
from work I saw them, my husband tried to get some good pictures but
the lambs were a little nervous. They are four days younger
these two new lambs are larger than the triplets.
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