Last night we had quite an eventful evening. Two ewes were lambing at the same time on opposite sides of the barn! Our Soay cross ewe needed quite a bit assistance as she had two ENORMOUS Charolais cross lambs, both rams. They are definitely the biggest lambs we have ever had!
The other ewe was April (Shetland) who had been looking uncomfortable and huge for several days. It turns out she was carrying triplets!!!! She also needed quite a bit of help as two of them were coming head first but with the legs tucked back. This was both of the rams lambs(!), the ewe lamb was fine. All three are grey katmogets, the two rams are slightly different shades of grey and the ewe has a bit of white on the top of her head. We are monitoring them to see if April manages to feed them all or if we will need to supplement them with bottle milk.
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