Help! Not sure if bred/ might have lambs any day...

[Wellspring_Goats_Guardian]

* I know mostly bout goats after working with them 13+ years... but recently acquired sheep**

I have a question, I personally don't know a lot about sheep, I got 2 recently(2 or 3 months) from some one who was giving them up ( An East Friesian Ewe, and A Navajo Ewe) The Navajo had lambed a few months before we got her.But the gal said there was a chance that the fresian was bred( she knew less than me about sheep). I went out today, and noticed her bag was filling, and she looked a little pinker and some what swollen back there. I personal thought she wasn't bred, and just getting fat. Now I'm starting to double think that. I have everything needed for lambing and kidding, but just curious if my hunch was wrong and that she is bred and due any day/ week.

according to the gal, she is 4 or 5 years old, has had live twins with no issues of prolapsing or needing help really, and won't (for the most part) not accept her lambs. So that puts me a little at ease, but any opinions, information, ect would be great.

 

[BrownSheep]

I would say you're within a month of lambing. Since she's a milking breed she should get a pretty large bag. I would worry about her. Sheep seem to have far fewer problems than goats. Most of the time it's a matter of walking out to find lambs walking, dry, and nursing.

What few problems do happen tend to occure in young animals. By now your ewe should be an old hand at lambing.

 

[bonbean01]

She has the signs of being pregnant. Mine start to bag up and get puffy and pinker in the back end about a month before lambing. You are sooooooooooooo going to love the lambs and you will become hooked on sheep

 

[Wellspring_Goats_Guardian]

Well she was defiantly bred and lamb on May 13th @ 10 pm ( my moms birthday)!! With two cute little rams! I names them Ying ( White one) and Yang (black one)