Saturday, February 18, 2012

Baby lambs on the ground

We are coming into my favorite time of year. I love lambing/kidding season. It's kind of like all of the work in the fall of putting the rams with the ewes or picking just the right buck for the right doe, all come down to this. The fruits of the labor. We have started having the wool lambs.

For those of you who don't know the sheep flock is in essence split into two different categories. We have the wool ewes who produce the fiber and hopefully new fiber lambs. :-)  And then we have the meat ewes who's lambs are simply used for sale for meat purposes. While I like watching the new meat lambs being born. I love when the wool ewes start having lambs. It's like Christmas morning.

We are having a heavy ewe lamb year which makes it a little difficult because we can't keep them all. There are some very promising lambs out there already, but now comes another waiting period to see who turns out and who doesn't.

And now I leave you with lambie pictures:-)



a 3/4 bluefaced ewe lamb
 some 1/2 bluefaced leicester/ 1/2 lincoln ewe lambs