Last night, (at least one day earlier than expected) our first due ewe, Giovanna delivered twin girls. We saw she was in labor and moved her into a private lambing pen. We thought we'd leave her alone for half an hour and then see how she was progressing but 10 minutes later, we heard the bleating of a lamb. I went out to check and sure enough there were not one but two tiny lambs. Rosie is black like her mother with the same little white mark on her forehead and Posie is white. Rosie is the smallest (and perhaps the cutest) lamb born at Aries Crossing yet. She was only 6lbs 5 oz at birth!
Friday morning, we went to check on the new lambs and then my daughter went to check on the rest of lambs. She came running back to tell me that one of the sheep had something handing from its rear end.
Sure enough 64 had delivered one and had another on the way in the main barn. Thankfully the other sheep had left her alone in the barn while they went outside so we were able to focus on her. She had two healthy ram lambs weighing in at over 12 lbs each. They were a little slow to prove they were nursing but all is well.
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