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| No matter what the calendar says or what the weather is doing, spring never arrives at The Lavender Fleece until our first lambs are born. Our beautiful ewe, Isabella, presented me with this image of spring on March 28th. I thought it was pretty adorable that one of the lambs had already found herself a nesting place in one of the hay feeders. Both lambs are girls and they weighed 7 3/4 and 8 lbs. Their sire is our awesome "No Neck Nick." I'm keeping one ewe, who will be named "Martha" after Martha Washington. The other lamb is sold. |
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| March 29th. The 6 am barn check found Felicity with her first set of twins. The ram lamb is homozygous grey (6 3/4 lbs) and the ewe lamb is white (5 3/4 lbs.) She is doing a great job at being a first time mom. The sire of the lambs is the grey Tyrson's son, Thor. The ram lamb is reserved. |
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| April 2. Silfra had a gorgeous, very big (9.5 lbs.) black/grey mouflon ewe lamb in the heat of this unseasonably warm April (it was 80 degrees today!). The sire of the lamb is the Sedillson. This lamb is staying here. |
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| April 5. Wynona had her first set of triplets - one ewe and two ram lambs out of Sedillson. It was so nice to sit in the barn and watch the lambs being born and I captured #3 just as he was hitting the ground. The lambs weighed 7.5, 8 and 8.5 lbs. The ewe and one ram are reserved. |
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| April 6. This morning I found Olive with a nice set of twins out of Ragnar this year. The ram lamb is white (9 lbs.) and the ewe lamb is black (7.5 lbs.). Olive did a great job as usual and the lambs were nursing vigorously. Both lambs are reserved. |
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| April 6. Suzie Ewe decided to have her lambs in the middle of the field during a thunderstorm. Good grief. I went ahead and let her deliver and get her twins up and nursing (a white ram, 7 1/4 lbs. and a white ewe, 7 1/4 lbs.) and then moved them into the barn for a warm dry pen. I wasn't sure I'd make it carrying two kicking lambs in one arm and dragging a stubborn ewe up the hill, through the mud! But where there's a will.... although you can tell by the photo she is totally not happy that I interfered! Their sire is Sedillson and with their granddam, Superb, I expect these lambs to have great builds. The ewe lamb is reserved. |
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| April 6. Although she only singled, Pearl's 2010 ewe lamb is so outstanding in her build, and so amazing in her size.... the fact that Pearl delivered this 11.5 lb. ewe lamb unassisted gives her a pass. The sire is our Visirson. Pearl's 2009 ewe lamb (Elsie) out of Visirson was so outstanding that I repeated the breeding and this lamb already proves to be just as well built as Elsie is. This lamb is staying in the flock. Her name is Dolley after Dolley Madison. |