Well That Didn't Take Long!

I bet you can guess what this post is about!

And you'd be right, we had another lamb born on the farm this morning. Thankfully this time I didn't have to wait very long only 48 hours. This time I was all on my own, but once again the mom (Meredith) is a great mother and knew exactly what to do and was protecting the baby from the others. I moved her and baby into the makeshift pen I had set up for the other two (who are doing amazing, the baby has already grown some and is strong and rambunctious) and everybody is doing great! Everyone meet Patsy our lovely new ewe lamb!!

So here's our conundrum; Each of the three Ewes each only had one lamb, which is very rare. This is worrisome for a couple of different reasons. 1. One of the perks of sheep is that they let you expand your flock very quickly in that they usually have twins or even triplets. If these three don't give us multiples on their next lambing then they wont really be any use to us (I've already grown quite attached to them and really don't want this to happen). Reason 2. We certainty wont be making much money on lambs if they are only giving us two. And even if we are a farm our main concern always has to be with the bottom line.

We plan to breed the sheep again sometime in August or September, which means we should have lambs sometime in December or January. As with most things on a farm, time will tell.