#196 Ziva

Late last evening Ziva delivered a single ram lamb.

Ziva was bred to Two Tone.

 This is Ziva's first time lambing and she did a great job all by herself.

This little guy is cute, has a nice crimpy lamb fleece and is spotted.

He also has horn buds so we'll have to see how those turn out, 

although he could have scurs. ...we'll see.

So we have officially finished our lambing season.

I thought we had one or two more but looking

closer it is obvious that they did not breed.

We ended with 54 lambs.  

30 rams and 24 ewes, 13 sets of twins and 28 singles.

Of those we have 13 Crossbred lambs (border cheviot X shetland)

of which 7 are rams and 6 are ewes.

Leaving us with 41 purebred lambs (shetlands)

of which 23 are rams and 18 ewes.

As of now everyone is doing well and we just want them all go grow.

There will be lambs available to purchase but we have

not made any decisions yet as to which purebreds will be available.

The crossbred lambs will all be sold, so if anyone is interested in these drop me 

an email and inquire.  They are still to young to leave but they will be available in the future.

#59 Mia

Feeding in the morning goes much faster now that 

most of the ewes have delivered their lambs.

While I was finishing up this morning Mia had 

moved into the far corner of the barn.

With tail raised and pawing at the ground

I knew she would deliver soon.

I had to go off to work and hoped all went well 

while I was away.

 When I returned home Mia had her little lamb waiting at the gait.

As soon as I finished feeding the bottle babies (those guys don't wait)

I inspected her little ram lamb a spotted moorit and moved 

them into a pen to bond and spend more time together.

 Mia was bred to Shamus, below, the spotted moorit scurred ram.

 Today was the first sunny and warm-er day that we have had in a while.

Below, some of the lambs snoozing and enjoying the warmth of the

sun on their bodies.

On the work front, it looks like they are really trying 

to get us set up to work from home.

Things are moving pretty quick considering 

all that has to be done with computers and security.

But I'm all for it.  We've tried hard here at home to stay away from 

all people.  I haven't gone to a store in 3 weeks, work and 

home only!  

Everybody stay home and stay well....flatten the curve!

#60 Zoe

In the morning when I go out to feed the sheep before I 

go to work, I look for the four ewes that should be delivering.

This morning #60 Zoe had delivered:

 This single ewe lamb.  She resembles her mama.

Zoe was bred to Two Tone.

Three to go!!

Here's a quick 30 seconds

of the lambs enjoying life.

That's all for now.