Poppy & Petunia

While I was writing my previous post, 45 was delivering her twin girls in the barn.  The kids discovered them.  Obviously the delivery was easy and quick and both lambs seem to be nursing well.  We are watching closely for the first few hours.

Luckily, 45 was the one we guessed would be next and was accordingly moved to a private pen last night.  She is skittish and was a beast to convince to come up to the barn close to the house but with a patient friend's help, we made it up in the dark last night.   I sure am glad we did.  It is much easier to deal with ewes and lambs when they have the right quarters.   We now have 5 more due in the next few days - all but one of which are now housed in a drop pen on one side of the main barn.

Three pregnant ewes in the drop pen (and a chicken too)

Here are the pictures of our newest additions.  Unfortunately, the heat lamp makes for very bad photographs but you get the idea.  The girls have decided on a flower theme for this year's lambs so these were named Poppy and Petunia.   The boys will not be named.

And here are some other pictures of our other lambs.

Rosie in blue, Posie in red

Rosie's star

64's twin boys napping

64 

Sunday Dinner

Haven't had a chance to post about our newest lambs.    I was right and 45 was the next to give birth.  On Sunday afternoon, I happened to look out the window and noticed one of the ewes standing up and then laying down, then standing up and laying down, over and over.  It didn't seem right so I ran out to have a closer look. Sure enough, there was a hoof visible.    I ran in to change clothes and called Jay.

The lamb was born within half an hour I'd say and I was actually able to catch it on video.

Michael Jackson is one of our rams.  I didn't want anybody trampling the baby.   After a few minutes of Mama licking her lamb, I grabbed it with a towel and we started the process of moving 45 and her lamb into the barn.  All went fairly well and after a few hours, we were satisfied and went to have our Sunday Dinner at my in-laws.

The ram-lamb was named Timothy by Lilah and he has been doing well.