21st Feb....3 weeks to go

[Sheepshape]

By dates my girls have 3 weeks to start lambing. We are all enjoying some unseasonably mild weather.....but that's about to change at about the time they are due to lamb.

Oh well....here they are. Most seem to be either getting deeper or wider by the day.

The deep

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The Wide

The permanently ravenous

The girls in the pics. are expecting multiples (mostly twins)....so I'm expecting them to expand quickly.

The waiting always seems to go on for ever.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Wow....just wow

 

[goatgurl]

deep and wide. what B&B said, just wow. can't wait for baby pictures

 

[Sheepshape]

They are looking healthy and happy. Full of pregnancy hormones, they are super-friendly. I love holding them around their big, tight bellies and feeling the little kicks. (Now I'm really thinking about all those legs on the move in there in ewes having multiple lambs!).

I also have a field with 15 girls who are having singletons. They have all lambed before and will lamb outside. The group in the picture will soon be coming in the shed overnight. I have a newly installed 'lamb cam' there whereby I can remotely check them on CCTV (via the TV) rather than having to physically go down there in the dark/mud/ice/snow etc.

Unfortunately some of the girls have had lice related to a neighbour's sheep coming down from the mountains to which they are hefted.....I think it's cured, but plan to re-treat any which look a bit 'tatty' in the next couple of days (when they come in for a final Se/Co/B12 drench.

Two girls are isolated. One had a tooth abscess and couldn't eat, the other may have Johne's. I'm feeling quietly optimistic about her, though, as her bottom has dried up after Moxidectin and her belly is expanding nicely. She eats very well. I'm hoping she had some resistant worms and is just an old, skinny girl with a paucity of teeth.

We have the annual 'mud bath' in spite of a fairly dry spell, but, at least I have a clean field for lambs to go out into.

How that serene scene can change to one of disorganised chaos once the inevitable problems start to arise

 

[Dale HWA]

That flock is what i hope to be looking at with mine in 5-6 years time... if we get all ewes it could be sooner but when has that ever happened?!?

 

[Sumi]

things will go smoothly! Can't wait to see the little ones.

 

[Sheepshape]

A week on, and the rain has returned.

My girls continue to expand....

Super-friendly,too

This is Jo....expecting triplets.

And just for good measure some of my chickens....the rooster in the front is called A*^hole!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

the rooster in the front is called A*^hole!

I've had a few roosters with the same name, lol!

 

[Sumi]

Your girls look so sweet I was out walking with DS now and saw some sheep in a pasture. They looked so pretty and content out there. No rain here... YET. I expect it soon though. Our spring break is over *sigh*

 

[Baymule]

I love your sheep pictures. Your girls look so soft and fluffy. I want to see pics of them after shearing--if you think they wouldn't be embarrassed being shown in their underwear.

I've never had a rooster named A*^hole....but I've had some named I-hate-you-and-i'm-going-to-eat-you.