Lambs

We've had three lamb mortalities, which we attributed to lamb abnormalities within the ewes womb. Birth ratio is 1.9 lambs to each mother ewe.

We light our open fire in the mornings and in the evenings at Woodburn Farmhouse.

Here's some cade lamb milk I prepared earlier.

Charlie hand bottle feeds lambs that are more unwell.

Took some photographs of life on the paddock.

The Zwartble lamb pictured below was a cade just over a year ago.

And this one was also a cade with her; they do get through their difficulties.

Remaining ewes in lamb are herded out of the poly tunnel and placed into an open area with a calf creep.

Tup lamb watching ewes in lamb.

As Two mother ewes arrive crying without their lambs, the black ewe's lambs died being born; the white ewe rejected her twins. Farm life is sometimes brutal.

Charlie had a big move around of sheep and lambs, two ewes who lost there lambs returned to the paddock, the remaining ewes in lamb were moved from the polytunnel to the calf creep penned area. The rest of the lambing pens in the poly tunnel were taken down so all mother ewes and their lambs are together. We ran out of hurdles and had to use pallets!