Archive for March 4th, 2010

Three for Thursday

This morning, as with every morning, I grabbed the mega-watt, high powered spotlight and headed out before work to check on the girls.  Everyone was out in the small arena and alleyway and were all looking toward the shelter.  A dead give away that someone was lambing.  I peeked around the corner and there was another of my first time moms busily cleaning off this adorable girl.  Yeah, I know all lambs are cute, but she has the “it” factor.  The same thing Harry Flash exhibited when he was born.  And she seems to have decided I’m someone special because she followed me around when I was feeding and if I hadn’t looked back at the right time she would have followed me right out the gate.  There are some more pictures of her and her mom on the Photos page.

When Dave did his lamb check before work we had another ewe lamb on the ground.  What he didn’t realize was the ewe was having twins.  So as of dinner time tonight we have three new ewe lambs.  (Let’s hear it for the girls!)  Once again this year I’m finding that twins here are, without exception, born in a combination of one solid white and one colored.  This is one of the girls born this morning.  Her twin wasn’t being very photogenic so I didn’t get a shot of her. 

Right now the lambs really aren’t relating to each other too much.  They stick close by mom and when mom’s eating they curl up next to the feeder.  Soon, though, they’ll take more notice of each other and then the games will begin.