2020 Lambing - Post #5 Another set of twins!!

 This black 2yr old ewe had twin ram lambs late last night (about 11:33pm & 11:48pm)...

#1 is black with a white patchy face and white on the tip of his tail, and weighed 5kg!

#2 is moorit (brown) with some white on his head, and weighed 6kg!

 

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!

2020 Lambing - Post #3

This single white ewe lamb arrived just a bit before 10:45pm on the 11th of August!
Mum is a 2yr old, and had a single white ewe lamb last year too!

Meantime, the three older lambs and their mums moved out to the big paddock...
The darker lamb belongs to the black (grey) ewe. The lighter twins belong to the light brown ewe.

 

2020 lambing - Post #2 Twins!

My 7yr old ewe finally lambed on Saturday morning - at 152 days gestation! This is only the third time that I have recorded a sheep gestation over 150 days (out of 95 gestation records).

She had twins - a ram lamb and a ewe lamb. They are both moorit (brown) as expected, as their dam is moorit, and their sire was also. They both have some white on their foreheads.

Lambing 2020 - Post #1 First lamb of the season!

My first lamb arrived around 9:30am on Thursday morning (30 July).

Mum is a black (grey!) 3yr old ewe, and this was her second lambing.

She had a moorit (brown) ewe lamb, that weighed about 4.5kg.