Baymule's 3rd Lambing

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Every morning when I wake up I look out the window to check on my sheep. This morning I saw a skinny ewe who had been swollen with babies, lambs at her feet. We quickly donned shoes and coats over our PJs and ran outside.

Ewenique had twins! A white ram lamb with a brown patch over one eye and a black and white spotted little ewe lamb.

Merry Christmas to us!

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Bay, those are so lovely!!! Thank you for sharing your pics here, as you know I live my sheeple life vicariously through you now. :love

What always amazes me about the Katahdins is how often the markings on the sheep resemble the Katahdins of other people, though the breed has so much variation in the coloring and patterns. That little male has some of the same markings on the back of his hocks that my own ram lamb had, and his daddy before him....those patches of dark brown/red and some speckles as they grow into their coloring.
 
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Woo-hoo! Congratulations and Merry Christmas is right! Are you keeping ewe lambs this year?

Darn phone won't let me see the pictures. Not cool!
 
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Lamb is delicious. I castrate the boys and name them Supper. I sell them for $8 a pound, hanging weight. With processing, it is around $10 a pound. We keep lamb in the freezer, had lamb a few nights ago.

I am keeping ewe lambs. I have 3 that will be ready to breed in about 3 more months. I have 4 ewes, 3 more to lamb!
 
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Bay, they are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. I had sheep a few years ago. Bought a ewe pregnant, but didn't know it at the time and then she had twins. Wonderful surprise that was!
 
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Chic Rustler said:
I kinda want sheep. All in time
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I chose hair sheep because they are small, can be raised on grass and hay. I give 8 sheep a coffee can of feed once a day to keep them coming to me and make them easier to handle. They are not escape artists, they stay in the fence. No wool, don't have to shear. Grass, hay, mineral, water=delicious meat.
 
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Didn't see Miranda this morning, so we got dressed to go find her. Smart momma, in the cold and drizzly rain, she was in the shelter with her new lambs. Sex unknown as I didn't want to crowd her. I am hoping for at least one of them to be a ewe.

New Year's Eve lambs!



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I let Mom settle down a bit and gave the sheep some pellets. Miranda waffled between the lure of food and moving 5 feet away from her lambs. Food won. LOL

The lambs followed mommy and I picked them up. Boy. Then... girl! I named her Eve, born on New Year's Eve. Eve is marked with a perfect heart shaped black spot on her knee!

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