Baymule's 3rd Lambing

[baymule]

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!

 

[baymule]

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!

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!

 

[baymule]

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!

 

[baymule]

I kinda want sheep. All in time

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.

 

[baymule]

Today our daughter and family came over for lunch. She and I took the two year old and the 16 month old to see the lambs. The 16 month old adores the sheep and constantly says BAA BAA BAA! She want to love on them so bad! I caught a 2 week old lamb for them to pet. The 2 year old said, That's a baby BAA BAA.

 

[baymule]

This is the coldest winter since 1957. The record low in 1957 for Tyler, Texas is 11F degrees. The new low record is 10F degrees. Brrrr.... We got two inches of snow Tuesday. It got up to 40F today and a lot of snow has melted. But it's still cold!

So naturally guess what showed up last night? Meet Winter, ewe lamb. Daughter of Lady Baa Baa.

 

[baymule]

This morning I fed the sheep their coffee can of feed. I was surprised to see Domino shove her way up to the feed tub to get her share. Only a month old and she jumped right in amongst the ewes! Yup, she's a keeper! LOL

 

[Mini Horses]

Yes, poor manners & VERY inconsiderate! BUT they are sold. Gone. Money in hand. Chalk it up and move on......

Next one may be very punctual. Now, I'm often a tad late for such things BUT, BUT, BUT I always alert-- phone, text, etc. I understand animal handling can be PITA for these things.

Generally I mention to the "caller/buyer" that I have other commitments, animals will be contained JUST for you to see and basically a "don't screw around" with my time. These type sales are why I have grown to believe in an auction! But last CL sale adventure I had was wonderful -- So I would do it again.

By the way, those lambs look GREAT! And he was lucky to get them. Maybe the van was a rental

 

[Beekissed]

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

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.

 

[NH Homesteader]

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!