#15 Eve (again!) and #175 gulmoget ewe

I've been doing this for a few years now, about eleven and sometimes

when you get so busy you tend to "forget" things and sometimes think

that you are losing your mind.  Writing yourself notes or in this case

recording and tagging and taking pictures helps to keep yourself straight.

This ewe Eve gave birth 4/4/17 (i have pictures to prove it).

Unfortunately, the next evening she lost her lamb due to soffocation,

in this case the lamb had wedged itself into a downward sloped corner

of the pen face first and I'm sure that if it even tried to get up it just

pushed itself further downward eventually not being able to breathe.

The next day I moved Eve out of the lambing jug, back with the main

flock.    

Upon going out to check on everyone last evening 4/7/17  I seen 

a new lamb laying stretched out and a second one with a ewe.

Going into the pen to see who had delivered I see Eve caring for a 

new born lamb and another lamb that lay lifeless next to her.

I begin to search and look over all the other ewes that might have 

delivered these lambs....no one.

I go back and look over Eve again and yes Eve did deliver these lambs!

By appearances I can only figure that this third little lamb that 

survived was not in the same birth sack as the previous two lambs.

Eve was bred to the Border Cheviot ram.

 The above ewe, #175 with the gulmoget pattern delivered this 

single ram lambs this morning 4/8/17.

This was not part of our planned breeding.  This ewe squeezed into

one of the pens I had a breeding group in.

The ram is Bian1107.

#175 is just over one year old and is proving to be a very good

attentive mother.  I haven't named this ewe yet or even registered

her, because I wasn't sure if I was going to keep or sell her.

So there is a possibility that she will be available this summer.

So to go along with my first paragraph of this post, about 

keeping things straight.  In a previous post I had mentioned

a number of yet expectant ewes.  Well it is best to 

keep track and reference your written list rather than

try and take a count out in the barnyard...because you always miss someone.

So...as of now I have four ewes yet to give birth. Before I 

consider this lambing season over.

But...I did put a few ewes in with rams in January, February and March

I don't know that any of them did breed or get bred but we will 

have to just watch and find out.  If so we could be expecting 

lambs in June, July and possibly August.  We will 

just have to wait and see...