2/11/2009

First Lamb Arrives

A new day, a new life on our little farm. The nesting and mothering instincts are very strong in this Bluefaced Leicester ewe (#57). She delivered a single ewe lamb early this morning with no assistance. She has a beautiful full udder at the ready to nourish and bring her ewe lamb to life. I’ve named this ewe lamb “Alexandria”. Since this is our first purebred BFL born on the farm, the first letter of the alphabet starts us off. I’ve had this tradition of using the alphabet to name registerable stock for years. Now with a new purebred line, I can start a new series of names. Naming is the funniest part of lambing. So, we wait on one more BFL ewes to lamb and I can breathe a sigh of relief until mid March when the rest of our flock starts in on lambing.

On a side, we did get the three Leicester Longwool ewe lambs on Saturday. It was a full day trip driving down into NYC and into PA. It was very intense driving. The sheep travelled very well and hardly made a peep. They are settling in fine.