Lambing is all done

As of last night we are all done with lambing 2009. One of our ewes had a girl yesterday morning and the last one lambed with a boy last night. All in all we had a total of 22 lambs with 18 surviving. We lost two right at birth with two different mothers. And then lost two that were older from two different mothers. We ended up with 11 boys and 7 girls. One girl is in our basement and has become a bottle lamb as her mother doesn't have enough milk for all three of them. The mother still has one ram lamb with her.

More lamb pictures

We wanted to stop by and say Hi.

I just wanted to share some more pictures of our lambs. I took these on 4/11/09. I am a week late in getting them posted. We still have two ewes left to lamb. So far we have 17 lambs, 11 boys and 6 girls.

Still have 7 ewes left to lamb

Just thought I'd let everyone see how pregnant some of the remaining ewes are today. Here is one with her head in the feeder eating.

Here are two more filling their faces.

Here are some big girls too. The one in the middle is a two year old daughter of the one who had the quads this year.

First of the 2009 lambs

We started lambing as of Friday, April 3rd. The first set of lambs arrived around 7 pm. We had a set of twins. Above is a picture of the white ewe lamb.

Here is a picture of the white ewe lamb and the black ram lamb.

On Monday, April 6th one of our ewes had four lambs. One ewe lamb did not survive. Pictured above are the three surviving lambs. Two boys and one girl. The one closest to the camera is the girl.

Here is a shot of the three lambs again.

Thoughts

Okay, I admit it I wimped out the past 2 or 3 days in regards to working the dogs. It was cool and very windy. I paid the price. It is amazing how well they can do when you work with them more consistently, ie every day. Also, I wussed out on taking them for walks. I could see in Jag that he didn't have as much stamina today. We had a heck of a time getting the sheep into the pen so that I could work Cash and Corbie on their outruns. I did take them for about a 3 mile walk this evening. Poor Jaggie was stiff coming out of his kennel after eating tonight. It's tough getting older. I was stiff getting out of my chair and going to the kitchen to eat. I guess we're both getting older. I need to be more consistent on getting out and walking the dogs to keep them in condition. Especially Jag being that he is getting older. It is good for me too. I also need to keep working the dogs every day that I get a chance, no excuses. They improve so much and are more consistent when I work with them every day and I know that. But no more excuses when I get home from work.