Nearly done. I have one last lady, Charlotte, to lamb still and then lambing 2018 is in the books. On Monday, my smallest ewe Eva gave birth to a healthy little ram lamb. He was a little surprising, despite the tendency for rams to be white this year.
As his mama is all black…
Still, his birth took a lot of stress out of my life as I was really very concerned about her ability to birth a lamb. I needn’t have worried as she did just fine on her own and is an excellent mother to the little guy.
Nadia, one of my older ewes, gave birth to a lovely little ewe lamb this afternoon. Miss Nadia is a bit of a Eeyore-esqe sheep, always seeming down and depressed. This is simply her nature, and there is nothing wrong with that. Really, what do I know? She may really be the life of the sheep party and the jokester of the flock, but I don’t speak sheep so I will never know. Anyway, she and her little ewe lamb are doing quite well tonight…
Current stats: thirty lambs from twenty ewes. One final ewe left to lamb. Fourteen ewe lambs and sixteen ram lambs. 150% lambing rate.
The view to the West…
Sarah Jane Humke 