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 […]
My wife and I are too old to have any more children. But yesterday we had our sheep shorn and discovered that three of our five Friesian ewes are expecting. With their winter wool coats on, there were no obvious signs of pregnancy. But once all that fleece was clipped away, the swollen bellies and […]
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