2 Weeks...where to start

Blogger and I are having issues, and I cannot get these photos to move down to the proper location, sorry!

Scar's son, moments after being born.
Scar's son, one week old.

Wow, I'm ashamed that it has been over two weeks since I last posted. Can you tell that Spring is here, along with lambing, and the end of the school year? My plan is to do a few smaller posts now, instead of one novel.

In lambing news, we have added four additional lambs to our numbers, with one ewe left to lamb. Last Saturday Nate, Kohen, and I headed to the Shepherd's Harvest Festival along with Aunt Linda, but that is a whole other post. Anyway, we came home to Sunny in the early stages of labor. An hour later, we had a nice ram lamb, with spots! He is mostly white with a dark nose, ear tips, and a few random spots.

The spotted boy, fresh to the world.

Spotted ram, one week old.

Our ewes have a habit of lambing in pairs, and Scar decided she was buddied up with Sunny. She gave us a moorit ram lamb with some white on his face. We were surprised that our two biggest ewes only gave us singles, we would have expected more baby for all that belly.

Last night, Bunny decided to be a good girl and go in to labor and deliver without any notice. I walked in as she was cleaning off her first lamb, a black ewe. I ran into the house to tell Nate, and was in the house for five minutes. When I came back out she had just given birth to a second ewe lamb, this one white. She was impossibly small, and I was concerned. The black ewe was able to stand and nurse quickly, but her sister wasn't as lucky. We ended up milking some colostrum and tube feeding her, which brought her around. She is now moving around and nursing well. We kept this birth quiet until we figured that they would both have a chance, trying to avoid any more life lessons for our dear four year old. This afternoon I took him out and introduced him to the new girls. They are still making use of the heat lamp since we had snow on the ground this morning and the temperature has not gotten above 40, combined with 30 mph sustained winds. Bunny is being a good mom, and taking care of her baby girls. I haven't hauled out the scale to weigh them, but the black ewe looks to be about 4-5 pounds, with her white sister perhaps 2-2.5! No names yet, but we may call the white ewe marshmallow since the rule is to only name girls.

These new additions bring our lamb count to 12, with 7 rams and 5 ewes. All look to have beautiful fleece, but time will tell. Bam improved the bloodline of the flock. All the lambs have nice, small tails, with the exception of the Jacobs, and the Icelandic, who we banded tails on.

The garage is becoming less crowded, with Bunny in a jug, Good Mama, Marshmallow, Cream, Scar and her son, Sunny and her son, and Ella in occupance. The rest of the flock was moved to the yard between our driveway and the pasture, fenced with electronet, a portable electric fencing system. To charge the electronet, we have been connecting to the pasture fence charger. The charge proved too strong. This week we had two chickens who became intangled in the electronet and would have not survived if Nate had not found them quickly. Then, on Wednesday night one of our outside cats was killed by the electronet. A trip to L&M Fleet Supply and the purchase of the smallest charger available, has led to a bit more piece of mind.

Ella is our last holdout for lambing. She was the ewe lamb attacked by Woody, our german shepherd last year. It looks like she has some time before she goes, she just started to bag up about a week ago.

Ok, I better go play with some boys, but I promise a non-sheep post to follow.