UPDATE! AND NOW TWINS!!!!!!!! Are they actually pregnant or just fat?!

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Was out cleaning up old hay/bedding and noticed one ewe is more full of [hopefully] milk than the picture I posted several days ago! :D
Other seems to be starting something, slightly, maybe...lol.
 

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Trained goat eye, clueless about sheep eye. My guess is pregnant. They just look pregnant from the udder pics. Those udders look like pregnant Mama udders to me.
 

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One of them has been in the barn all afternoon, she's rounder, more lazy and has much more of a milk bag than the other.
Hurry up lambs!!!
 

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One of them has been in the barn all afternoon, she's rounder, more lazy and has much more of a milk bag than the other.
Hurry up lambs!!!
I hope all goes well!!! She might be getting ready to lamb!
 

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You never can tell...I was shocked yesterday morning looking out the kitchen window at the sheep and filling the coffee pot with water...and there is a tiny white little lamb nursing the ewe that was not supposed to be bred...she's a runty puny ewe...and there was a lamb!! Ran out and the little ram lamb was damp and no afterbirth passed yet, so guess it happened just before I woke up....so...you never can tell...be prepared for lambs!!! Mama ewe is doing a great job, but we're helping out with two bottles a day and giving Mama ewe more feed and drench too. This ewe was not going to be a "keeper" but guess for now she is. Think the lamb ram a bit premature, but can't believe she had him on her own..yikes...would have been out there all hours of the night and day if I'd known.
 

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She's deep red, near purple. Not sure if that means anything, it does in rabbits. Either way, it's real nice out this week, so great time to have lambs....
~cmon sheeps, I want to meet what's been cooking all these months!~ :D
 

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When our sheep lamb, their vulvas normally turn a rosy pink and they get noticeably larger. I would say they're beginning to change to that color.
 

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Sounds like it will be soon now!! How exciting:)

Hubby and I were talking about how our lives have changed since we got sheep...a whole season of checking teats and twats...LOLOLOL...then after the lambs arrive, checking under tails for clean bottoms, watching for first little poops and making sure they all pee too...LOLOLOL...as Sheepgirl said previously, you gotta love them!!!
 
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