It's lambing season! We have several new lambs. There are a couple that were born too early, but they are doing fine now. The newest ones were born this Sunday.
Usually, our breed of ewes has two lambs. If there is only one, it's usually pretty big. Sometimes there are triplets, and we've also had four(that's pretty unusual). Once a ewe has had her lambs, we move her and her babies out of the big pen and into their own little pen. These little pens are called "jugs". We have to keep a close eye on their water buckets and their hay. After a few days we usually move the mama and babies back into the big pen. Sometimes the babies get a little confused about who's their mama, but they figure it out eventually! The new thing about lambing season this year is: the new shed! All the sheep are kept inside the shed and we have a little office room with all the sheep supplies in it. It's much more convenient than our old set up. We used to have to run back and forth from the house to get supplies, mix up lamb milk down in the basement, and bring the ewes and lambs out of the outside pen and all the way into the older shed. The sheep are out of the rain and mud and the lambs don't have to be in all the bad weather. We also have security cameras so we can watch the sheep from our phones, which is nice, because otherwise we would have to keep running outside all the time to check on them. We are using animal paint to mark the lambs this year instead of ear tags.
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