My due date for the first lambs is February 28, but just like with people you can’t predict exactly when those babies will come. I was surprised by the first one that was six days early (blog post here). Since then I’ve been checking the barn late at night and early in the morning but there has been no more action…until yesterday.

Addy was the first to lamb yesterday around noon. Addy is a BFL x Jacob ewe who I kept because of her personality (and nice fleece). She is a big ewe and this lamb is 12.4 pounds! That is three times the size of that 4.2 pound lamb born six days ago. She wasn’t finished but I had to get to a vet appointment with my cat.

Sunny has been diagnosed with diabetes and requires a special diet and insulin injections twice a day.

Back home, Addy had her second lamb. A 50:50 cross with a Jacob usually results in black lambs. These lambs are 75% Jacob and one lamb is black and one is white.

To and from the house and the barn I walk by daffodils. I noticed that I have two varieties here. The darker one bloomed a few days before the lighter one and there are a lot more buds from the light one still to open.

Back to the barn around 11 p.m. Anise was lambing. She ended up with two BFL-X lambs.

Dilly had her lamb during the night and it was up and nursing when I saw it from the house on my barn camera.

I was in a Zoom meeting when Dan came in to report a ewe lambing and another ewe trying to claim the lamb. This is Jade with her single lamb.

While I was waiting for another ewe to lamb, Dan asked if Ginny and I could help keep the rams away while he moved some panels around in the ram pen so that he can start to repair it. The three ram lambs aren’t an issue, but Rambler is a little too friendly for us to feel save around him.

This is an example of what rams can do to a traditional fence. Those are “hog panels” which are usually very strong.

Back at the barn, Jade’s lamb was up and nursing.

Marilla is the ewe who had been hanging around Jade while she was lambing. Ewes very close to lambing often try to claim newborn lambs from another ewe. Once in the lambing area, Marilla got busy with her own delivery and had two lambs

This is Addy’s ewe lamb from yesterday.

Anise’s twins from last night.

Ginny is hopeful that the wheelbarrow now contains lambing treats (afterbirth and membranes).

I was on another Zoom meeting at about 4:30 and Dan came to get me. This is Hilda’s first lamb of twins.

This is the second.

The lambing board, wiped off and started fresh for 2022.