Today was definitely the busiest day we've had lambing. A total of 7 lambs were born today, 2 sets of twins and a set of triplets. The first set of twins were rams and were born this morning. The mother took to one fine, but we had to coax her into accepting and feeding the second. Several times we came into the barn to find she'd kicked him out of the pen, but as of 9:30 tonight, she seems to have accepted him.
After doing several other chores and feeding Daisy, we returned to the barn to find 5 brand new lambs, still wet, calling like crazy for their mothers. It was a busy few moments as we didn't have any more bonding pens to put the new lambs and their mothers in. So, our "oldest" lambs (4 days and 2 days) got tagged, needled and elastics to dock their tails and were sent out into the "big pen" with their mothers and everyone else. It's neat to see how quickly they and their mother can find one another even in the big flock just by sound. Tomorrow the first chore after feeding will be to build some more pens.
There was no time to take pictures today. Tomorrow we'll try and post a pic of the lambs with their tags- very cute!! Counting the twin females, twin males and triplet males born today our grand total for lambs this week is 13; 9 rams and 4 ewes. Stay tuned for more excitement in the days to come!
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