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Lambing came to a successful end on Saturday with the birth of another set of twins - girls this time - and both arriving at a convenient hour for the shepherdess (the middle of a sunny afternoon rather than the tail end of a long cold night ( Read more... )

Triplets this time - two boys and a girl. The last boy was smaller than the others and later that morning we noticed he was having difficulty walking. Both front legs were knuckling over so he was walking on his wrists. This happens from time to time - no one’s completely sure of the reason but if you splint the legs the muscles can often ( Read more... )

Another batch of sleepless nights as we went through the ‘is she lambing, is she not?’ for two whole days convinced triplets were imminent any second. Our ewe looked enormous. She couldn’t stand without help. She looked ready to explode ( Read more... )

A bit later this year and twice as stressful. We rounded up the first two ewes on Saturday, walked them to the Lambing pens, set up the Lambcam baby monitor TV feed and waited. And waited. Then disaster struck - our first ewe had ringwomb (failure of the cervix to dilate) She’d been in labour for several hours and it was now 2am on a bank holiday. ( Read more... )