Baa Baa Black Sheep: February 2009 Archives

The third ewe due to lamb this month has done her duty. Yesterday I was out filling the goose pool and kept watching her at the barn. I saw something moving but honestly it looked like a guinea behind her. I got closer and closer and then started shouting to Colby who was forking hay over for the goats and sheep.

I saw the white one just plop out. It got up to its feet almost instantly. Both were slick and wet and warm but cooling quickly.

Colby got busy with the jug (making a new bedding stall for mom and babies) and then we put them in.

There is something about the miracle of life that leaves me in tears every single time.

Have you any wool?

Yes, Sir! Yes, Sir!

2 lambs full!

Dorcas lambed this morning sometime around daylight. She gave birth to one white and one black.  

I was standing at the kitchen window and kept seeing something and sort of shook it off as guineas. I saw something again and did a double take and there was a lamb in the field. I gave another scan across the feild and then saw the movement of something black behind Dorcus. Another lamb.

This has been an amazing morning for me and Colby.

Can you imagine?