The last ewe lambed last night, with a grand flourish. 4 lambs. All the other lambs and ewes are doing well in spite of the freakish snowstorm a couple of days ago. Quite a contrast – snow and pink blossoms together! Our grand total for this session of lambing has been 530 lambs from 230 ewes. That’s it for lambing until our first time mothers lamb starting around the middle of next month.Next jobs on the farm will be dependent upon how quickly the ground dries out so we can get started on our various field jobs like fertilizing, cultivating and so on. In the meantime we’ll be continuing to feed the bottle lambs their bottles and teaching them how to drink from a bucket, which will enable them to get milk when they want it, rather than have to wait for us to go out there to feed them. We’re starting to put grain out there in a feeder for them as well and as they learn to eat more of that we can cut back on the amount of milk they get and eventually they, like their mothers, will be eating just grass and occasional grain.

Mar 11The main round of lambing is nearly over. We have had about 500 lambs from 220 ewes. The spring like weather has been wonderful for little lambs and mother’s milk. The grass has been so good they have hardly wanted their grain. The next two weeks are prime time for driving along William Head and Taylor Roads to see them out on pasture.