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She's pawinf the ground a bit? Do they do that when passing the afyerbrth? She's pretty sunken in the hips so I don't know if there's another one. She seems pretty content

Okay but it's been 2 hours since the first

Okay so I went in and felt nothing... Seemed like lite bits of poop or something which I think was the placenta She started pushing haeed while i was in the re and something came out more, looks like a clues or something so I'm thinking it's just the afyerbrth

That's the bag. Looks like she's concentrating hard and not worrying about the first one , so I think it is a twin... Should I go in?

Okay, so I went out at 3:30am (about an hour ago) and Sabine was chortling over a newborn ewe lamb. Sweet. Brought them inside the jug. However, there's another dark bag peeking out - only started protruding after I held her against the wall so that lamb could nurse (first time mum, very...

Okay... so I think my second ewe might be starting labour. Bummer b/c it's 10:45 pm... I was just out feeding the bottle triplet (I'm going to keep it out in the lambing shed in the next jug beside its mum and brothers) and Sabine, whom I separated earlier as she's due tomorrow, runs around...

So I weighted the 2 lamb rambs and they were 9 and 11 lbs each! Not bad, considering they were triplets. I'm thinking that the little ewe is probably around 8 lbs, not sure, so that's about 30lbs of lambs in the ewe!

Hi all, I'm a teacher, and since one of my triplets is now a bottle-baby, I was thinking about bringing it in to show my students. I work at an inner-city type school, and most wouldn't typically get to experience something like this. I'm not sure how long I'd bring it in for, but possibly...

So basically, I was gone for the weekend and my ewe had triplets two days early - I was kind of expecting it... Anyhoo, I wanted to weight them at birth for my records, but obviously I haven't been able to. They're now about 48 hours old - how accurate and similar do you think their current...

Well, Lambing has officially begun :) I have 8 ewes due to lamb this year (my first real lambing), and Tammy the beach ball was due yesterday, Sunday Feb 24th. My wife and I had to go off to a speaking engagement and were gone the entire weekend. However, my 10 year old son, with the help of...

Uggh... I tried crutching them but it was super hard... I'm hoping my minimalist job was satisfactory, but I sure was envious of electric clippers while I was doing it, that's for sure...!

So my 8 ewes are due starting the 24th, and every few days thereafter for about 3 weeks. I've pondered having them shorn prior to lambing, but we were hit with a cold spell (-20 Celsius and some wind) about 3 weeks ago, so that answered the question for me. However, it's beginning to let up...

re: shearing, no, and I don't plan to. It's been so cold here (around -20 celsius) that I thought it might make things worse for them with the temperature shock. I DID, believe it or not, crutch them as best I could a couple weeks back with my son. Man, it took forever, and didn't really...

re: shearing, no, and I don't plan to. It's been so cold here (around -20 celsius) that I thought it might make things worse for them with the temperature shock. I DID, believe it or not, crutch them as best I could a couple weeks back with my son. Man, it took forever, and didn't really...

This is Patty - born on St. Patrick's day last year, and due on St. Patrick's day this year, on her 1st birthday - same day as my little Katahdin, Nibbles! She's obviously suffolk-ish, I wasn't sure if she was preggers, but today got down on the ground and I'm pretty sure I see the beginnings...

Alright, so here are a few more of my gals. These are the twins, who turn two on May 4th (Samba and Sabine), and this is their first lambing. I'm watching them closely, as Samba's had a few issues with acidosis (I think) throughout the pregnancy, and Sabine was separated for a month or so due...

Here's my ram, Hamish. He's not quite a year old, so he bred my 8 ewes in October. He's from a Shropshire ram over a texel ewe, and while his father was a whopper ram, he hasn't turned out the biggest guy thus far... I'm not sure when rams are finished growing, but I don't foresee him getting...

I've appreciated the assistance I've received so far since joining BYH's, as well as the lambing journals others have posted, so I thought I'd introduce my flock - especially with my first lambs due in just over a week! I fully anticipate some frantic posts during the lambing process, so here...

Well, I'm down to the last few weeks before lambs are due, and I'm trying to make sure everything is in order. I have 8 ewes, including 3 experienced mums (a little Katahdin who had quads last year, and other multiples before that, 2 big hair/wool crosses, both having had twins and triplets in...