4/3/2007

April Fools or Blessing?

Upon the evening of April 1st, our first lamb was born. A perfect purebred Leicester Longwool ram lamb out of Beatrice. This was her first lamb and she exhibited strong mothering and protective instincts. We have given him the name "Edward", in honor of a dear friend. He seems to sleep alot yet when awake is very active and alert. We will keep him open and he will remain in our flock until he is full grown and finds a "suitable" flock to sire.

Another delivery last night, 1 am, ram lamb out of Nuggett. Huge ram, alert, healthy and quickly bonding with his mother and her milk resivor. We’ve named this lad "Gypsum", after all the gypsum board Ernie is dismantling this week (work related, that’s OK isn’t it?)

So we are expecting 6 more ewes to deliver and chances of them arriving this week are likely. Stay tuned.