FINALLY Ewe Neek lambed!!

Ewe Neek FINALLY lambed!! This will be our 2nd lambing of 2011!! She had some clear mucus around 10:00pm last night. We had brought her back in the stall that is under where we sleep (around midnight). We all went to bed. Mom had been hearing lambs making noise in her sleep, and then woke up and realized that she was hearing Ewe Neeks lambs in the stall below her. She already had all the lambs out on the ground when we found her, but she had just had them. She had triplets (thankfully, otherwise the lambs would have been HUGE if there were only twins), one ewe and two rams. The sire to the lambs is Ames (our dairy ram), and the dam is Mary's Lil' Acre Ewe Neek. They were born Thursday, January 27th, 2011. The lambs would have most likely frozen if we did not put her in a stall, because it was 17 degrees this morning outside. Since the lambs sire is a wool breed and the lambs dam is a hair breed the lambs are part wool and part hair. That is why they look a little different:)

Here are a few pictures of them ~

This is Ewe Neek.

Here is a picture of her a couple weeks before she lambed.

And these three pictures are of her the day before she lambed.

Here are the pictures of the lambs.

This is the ewe lamb.

Here are the ram lambs.

Have a good week!! And keep warm!!

~ Haleluyah

Frist Lamb of 2011!1

This is our first lamb of 2011! Little Hills Emory, one of our Desert Sand ewes that we own, lambed yesterday (January 22nd, 2011) late afternoon. I did not get to see this lamb be born (thankfully she had her just fine), oh well. I found her just a little bit after she was born (she was still wet when I found her). Emory had a single eweling. The eweling is a VERY pretty girl! She is red and white in color, she also has light red speckles on her body. Her sire is a Texas Dall ram with 40" horns.

Here are some pictures of her ~

This is Little Hills Emory.

And this is the ewelings sire.