The last lambs of the season (2019 lambing - post #8)

 This pet ewe hogget had a ewe lamb that weighed 5kg earlier in October (2 1/2 weeks ago!). I wasn't well at the time, and am only now getting around to adding her photo to this blog!

Lambing in my flock is officially over for this year, with the birth of this 4kg black ram lamb at about 4:30am on Thursday morning!

More lambs! (2019 lambing - post #7)

This ewe hogget really surprised me with twins on Saturday evening!!

Both are ram lambs, and weighed 3kg.

Both moorit, though pretty dark moorit.

Not sure which Agouti locus allele(s) they show, but I think it will be one of the "blue" ones!

This is only the second time (in two decades) that I've had a hogget have twins. The first time was four years ago when the great-grand-dam of this hogget had twins (the female twin from that set of twins is the paternal grand-dam of this hogget)! This hogget was also from a set of triplets (the second set of triplets that her dam had).

Another lamb! (2019 lambing - post #6)

This will be my only white lamb this lambing!
Another girl, about 3.5kg or so.
Mum is a hogget, and did very well. I wasn't even aware she was in labour until only a few minutes before the lamb was born - so a very low-stress lambing!

Another lamb! (2019 lambing - post #5)

 Another 5.5kg moorit-coloured single ewe lamb arrived this afternoon, about 2:15pm. Her mum is a 2yr old.

Only hoggets (1yr olds) left to lamb... 4/5 of the lambs so far are girls! No sons by the ram hogget that I still have, and only one more girl in-lamb to him...