On Sunday night we had 6 lambs all was progressing well. Working off the tup date we were expecting the bulk of the ewes to lamb during the week. What we didn’t expect was 8 ewes to lamb in 36 hours! Hattie was the start off at 03:30 on Monday morning. She looked like she could lamb at any moment, and having lost two lambs earlier in the week, we were checking Hattie every half hour. By 06:30 she’d been straining for 30 mins but nothing showing, on investigation I found 4 front feet and no heads. After a bit of rummaging around and help from Jackie we got two lambs both fit and well. Just as that was over both Sally and Snowflake started to lamb. Amanda was looking after Snowflake and I had Sally. Both needed some help, both had twins. Not long after Ebony had triplets. Triplets aren’t ideal as the ewe can only rear 2 lambs so the choice is take one away and either foster it or bottle feed. The other choice is to bottle feed all three.

Tuesday 03:00 it started all over again with Rosie who had twins. Unfortunately she had no milk so that’s another set of twins to bottle feed. The maternity was rapidly filling up! Later that morning Jet started. It’s her first lambing and she’s quite small, although she needed a little help, the twins are fine. Jet doesn’t have much milk either so another set of twins that need a top up bottle. That’s 7 that need a bottle every few hours.

The other girls lambed at rather more sensible time of day.