2020 Lambing - Post #4 Another single!

So I woke a little after 1:00 a.m. on the 20th of August hearing bleating... this BIG fellow had already arrived - he was 16 lbs / a bit over 7kg.

Mum is a 2yr old hand-raised pet, had a single lamb as a hogget last year, and was doing very well without me there to supervise!

 

I don't know which ram was the sire of this lamb (that's a first for my flock!)... The day this lamb was born was 149 days since I sold the ram lamb that I wanted this ewe bred to, at which point she went in with the 1 1/2yr old ram that I kept a bit longer...

 

He is moorit (brown), as expected, given that his mum is moorit, and both the rams I used this year were moorit... but he also shows some signs of spotting ("S-locus") genetics, with some white on his head and on the tip of his tail.

He's a lively lamb - I was watching him jumping and skipping this afternoon!