Twenty-four hours old and the baby ewe we’re calling Grace is bouncing around her pen while mom Hannah keeps tabs with a look of concern on her face. We check the pair frequently to make sure Grace is nursing. She is. She jabs for the teat and, finding it, sucks contentedly, her little tail whipping […]
With an udder bright pink and swollen almost to bursting, the ewe we call Hannah on Monday looked more than a little pregnant. I’ll bet she gives birth soon, I told my wife. She was so big, I was convinced she was carrying twins. The next morning, this is what I found inside the pen […]
What should have been a joyful occasion on the farm yesterday turned to sadness when one of our ewes gave birth to twins, the first stillborn and the second unable to survive more than 45 minutes. Lambing normally takes place without complications so it’s hard to know, exactly, why two baby lambs born to the […]
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