We had our last two lambs yesterday!  That is except for Petunia who is due at the end of March, but I told her that she is on her own 🙂

Here are the new lambs since the last update:

Kenleigh’s Flirt – Wrangler x Shasta

I love this girl 🙂

Kenleigh’s Ace – Junior x Bella

Kenleigh’s Cheer – Wrangler x Chevelle

Kenleigh’s Honor – Pilot x Celeste

Little Celeste out did herself, with a huge 11 lb. ram lamb!  She looked close all day yesterday and when I did my last rounds at 11:00 pm she had this big boy all cleaned up. 

We have 40 lambs – 21 girls and 19 boys!  I am really proud of all my girls this year – they did a fabulous job!

Me me me me, please pick me, really I could use some 😉  Contrary to popular belief, I do sleep and I like my slumber time.  Unfortunately, I haven’t slept a lot the last two nights and it is starting to catch up!  I spent all week working on various projects to take with me to the Spin-in located in Newport yesterday.  I stayed up WAY to late Friday night packing and pricing everything and had to get up WAY to early to get there in time.  I shared a booth with my sister and my friend Karen.

We had a great time and it was nice to sit back and chat.

I didn’t think any of the ewes were close to lambing, so I was looking forward to sleeping through the night – silly me!  I checked at 10:45 and Dusty was in the beginning stages of labor and when I checked back at 11:15 she was in full labor.  She had a very pretty ewe lamb and I thought that would be it, but she was acting funny.  Not long after, a very little boy slid out.  When I say slid out, that is exactly what he did – no pushing from her.  He was only 3.5 lbs.  All of our other lambs have ranged from 7 to 10 lbs.  I stayed in the barn for quite a while to make sure he could stand and nurse also to watch the girl because she aspirated some birth fluid and was really raspy.  I tried expelling it, but I didn’t get all of it out.  The poor thing would nurse and then cough and just give up.  I chose to leave them alone for a little while because there really wasn’t a lot I could do for them.  I managed to get 4 hours of sleep before needing to check on them again.  I was happy to find that they were both still alive, but the girl still sounded terrible and I didn’t think the boy was really getting enough to eat.  I was afraid that he was going to become a bottle lamb.  I brought him in mid-day and syringed some colostrum in him.  At 4:30 he drank 2 oz. from a bottle – a very good sign.  I decided to take him back out to his mom and supplement with a bottle.  I was relieved to see him nurse from his mom when I put him in the pen.  The little girl sounds much better this afternoon.  I am so happy!!!  We have been very blessed with lambing this year!  We have 10 more lambs since my last post and are down to just 4 more ewes to lamb.  I am definitely looking forward to staying in bed all night.  Stay tuned for running, romping, playing black and white lambs in a post very soon!