Lambing Time already!

It seems to come round earlier and earlier. Chris decided we should have some early lambs and released the tup for a couple of weeks last August. It was thought not many would be ready to be mated but it seems it must have been like a Club 18 -30 holiday as we have 130 due to lamb over these next two weeks!!!.
This little chap is a few days old now and bombs around everywhere. His favourite place to sleep is in the hay rack!
The Blue Faced Leicester Triplets were born yesterday afternoon and are all doing well with their Mum.
Yesterday it started to snow quite heavily and it looks like being around for a few days so I think these little chaps will be inside for a quite a while longer

Sheep scanning already!!

It doesnt seem like 5 minutes since we were scanning sheep last winter in the snow and the freezing cold. I usually do this job with at least 2 jumpers on, plus a vest, tights, ski socks jeans overall, coat and gloves its a wonder I can move really!!! Yesterday couldnt have been more different. It was a gloriously sunny warm autumnal day as John Barnes scanned the first 130 ewes.
These Mule ewes , and a few Blue Faced Leicesters, are due in the first couple of weeks of February (Chris decided it would be a good idea to have some early lambs!!!)
The scan went well and with 70 having twins and thirty odd having triplets it looks like it could be a busy week or so!
The local cows must have thought they were missing something as they all had to come and watch over the wall. So nosey!!

BFL Ewe with busy times ahead!!

This ewe has been carefully watched for some time now as she was scanned to have 4 lambs. Its a Blue Faced Leicester Ewe that has lived here for some time, these are her 6th crop of lambs but never yet has she produced a tup (male) lamb so that the bloodline can continue.
I was beginning to worry that she would lamb when I was here on my own and that something would go wrong!!.
However at teatime today she didn't dissapoint and safely delivered 4 big healthy lambs, 3 of which are male!! She looks a lot more comfortable now!