Official count: 47 lambs born, 32 ewes have lambed, 16 ewes still to go.
How can you not love lambing?
Mamas make good pillows; 80 and her lamb.
This is 108, who is our first bottle baby. We've had to help lambs get started in the past, but this little one's mama died, so we are feeding her milk replacer.
The two lambs closest to this ewe are her twins. I'm not sure how two lambs from the same sire and same dam can come out this different, but one clearly has more Katadhin genes and the other clearly has more North Country genes. The third lamb has more Suffolk influence, and has the adorable spotted face and legs that are characteristic of our North Country-Suffolk cross lambs.
Where did those ears come from? Did a llama breed your mama?
The oldest group of lambs and ewes is out in the high tensile field. Later tonight we'll be adding some more to this group and sending them all out to a new paddock with fresh grass.
One of 304's lambs, who is most definitely out of Dalton.
304's other lamb. Adding the Suffolk ram certainly gave us more color in the lambs this year!
We'll keep you posted as lambing season progresses...
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