Lambing season is all wrapped up! The last 5 girls had 11 lambs and 7 of those lambs came within a 1-hour time frame!
Jonquil was the first to lamb with a healthy set of twins…
her ram lamb, Lionel
and her ewe lamb, Amelia.
The next 3 girls decided to stir it up some! This is the scene that greeted me after I picked my son up from school on Wednesday…
unfortunately, it wasn’t so organized 😉 There were 7 lambs being mothered by 3 ewes. A little chaotic!
I was able to sort them by size and markings and fleece and everyone seemed happy except for Veronica. She really wanted Sahara’s ram lamb in addition to her 3. I told her that she needed to be happy with what she had and not be greedy!
Here is Veronica with her triplets.
Roland – ram lamb
Catherine – ewe lamb
Second ram lamb – Chaucer
Veronica is quite proud of herself and her brood, as she rightly shoud be! I checked the girls at 2:00 before I left and she didn’t look close, I returned at 3:00 to triplets. They aren’t exactly small triplets either – 8, 9, and 10 lbs.!
This is Sahara’s ram lamb – Windsor
and her ewe lamb – Jasmine.
The other girl that lambed with them is Amber. This is her ram lamb, Galahad.
These are the first lambs by Blue Ewe’s Ringoes Albus ‘Ringo’.
Here is Amber’s little ewe lamb – Arabella. She is so petite and cute and pretty…
I just want to hug her and snuggle her and carry her everywhere.
She is not a snuggly lamb though. She wants to be with HER MOM! A very oppinionated little thing 🙂
The last girl to lamb was Star. She kept me waiting and waiting! Finally she lambed yesterday afternoon. She had twins! It was apparent at birth that the ewe lamb had some issues. The lower half of her face appearred to be deformed. She had to be put down and once again lambing season has reminded me of how precious life is. There will be an educational post coming. The lamb had what is called ‘Monkey Faced Lamb Syndrome’ and it is caused by the ewe eating a poisonous plant early in gestation. You can always count on lambing season to further your education!
Here is Star’s ram lamb. I am so thankful she has a lamb to care for! This is Ringoes other set of lambs. The fleeces look very promising.
Thanks to all who participated in our little lambing contest! 6 of you guessed 11. We have a winner……..
Tisha! I know you are off having fun in California, but I will send you an e-mail and find out what you would like.
Stories from the Farm 
Shannon, Dr H the cow dr who came when Maggie the cow was sick at Christmas, told me the water hemlock that I know will kill sheep and goats will also cause birth defects and dwarfisms. Hence the problems I have had in the past here. He said if they ingest it at 2o to 60 days of gestation there will be problems. I will certainly be glad when we do not have to deal with that, there is a lot of it here and it takes some nasty chemicals and perfect timing to get rid of it. Coleen
So close! I said 10 – drat.
Well, shoot. I should have stuck with my first guess, even if it was based on the wrong number of ewes! Congrats on so many, though. Triplets aren’t common in Jacobs, are they? That is a LOT of lamb! Makes me a bit more hopeful that at least one of my girls MAY be carrying twins….
Lovely lambs – all of them! I’m living vicariously through others’ lambs this year since I won’t be having any. Jasmine is my favourite! She’s gorgeous!
Wow – you have been busy! I also love Jasmine (am partial to those dark sheep!) but also think that Catherine is beautiful!
Congratulations…why am I never right about how many lambs I am going to have? So sorry about the little ewe lamb…the hardest part of sheparding in my humble opinon.
They are all adorable in every way. I bet it is educational. So, when you came back to all those babies an 3 mommas–were you pretty certain that the lambs they had belonged to them? I assume that is how it works but just curious.
So sorry about the little one you had to put down. I know that has to be hard. Interested to find out about the plant and how that happened. Looks like a great lambing season at Kenleigh Acres 🙂
Thank you for linking to FFF!!
No, the mommas and babies weren’t matched up correctly 🙂 They were all very mixed up and babies were nursing off anybody that would let them! Amber’s lambs were the smallest and easy to match up, I knew the dark one belonged to Sahara and the biggest one had to be hers as well, that left the three medium sized ones for Veronica. It was kind of crazy 😉 It was very hard, but knew it was the right thing to do. Thank you and thank you for hosting Farm Friend Friday, it has been very fun!
I’m so glad you joined farm friend Friday so I could find you!
I love the Jacobs,the lambs are adorable!!
I will be back for more reading 🙂
Thank you for stopping by! Farm Friend Friday has been so much fun. Hope to see you back soon 🙂
so it wasnt 147?? dang.
ps i think Windsor is the best one
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Thank goodness you weren’t right 🙂 I would have fainted! Windsor is a very handsome dude.
I KNEW IT! boy im good at counting my lambs before they hatch. LOL
Ha Ha Josh 🙂 Good one!