Homestead Happenings

Twin Lambs !

Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 at 09:32 AM in Animals

Yesterday, my Mr. went out to check on his Jersey/Holstein dairy cow who is due to freshen any day.  What did he find?  Twin lambs!  Not from the cow, of course.....

Mr., our 17 y/o son, and I went out on the Kawasaki Mule and loaded up the lambs and ewe.  The little Jacob Sheep lambs are sooooo cute!  We take them to the barn and put them in the "lamb nursery" for several days so they can get stronger (before a coyote comes) and to bond with their mama.

It's a little early for lambs.  They don't usually lamb until February or March.  My guess is that the ram got out a bit early. 

We are looking forward to lots more baby lambs this early spring.  New life is always exciting.

Lovin' this life !!

Twin Lambs

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Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 at 10:49 AM by faithfarm
Oh my goodness! They are sooo cute..Congrats! Life is good.

Cute!

Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 at 11:10 AM by mamaof2andtwins
What cute babies! I hope they are okay for being born this soon (or late) in the year.
Blessings,
Jennie

How sweet!!

Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 at 01:04 PM by blessingsbaound
We just bred our sheep but they won't be lambing until Spring! New life on the Farm is always a blessing!!! Enjoy!! With love, Mrs. Joseph Wood

How sweet

Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 at 10:05 PM by rashel
Oh they look just precious, I hope they do well. Is that Momma next to them, she looks as if she will be a good protective Momma. I read your post about using our freeze in January as firewood and it looks as if there will be more since we had another freeze this past week.
Blessings,
Rashel

Twin Lambs

Posted on Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 02:37 PM by lovinthislife
We usually put the ram in the the ewes in early November. I guess you could call this OOPS!

The lambs seem to be fine, even with the recent ice. We had another single this morning. Now that we know baby lambs are coming, we know to make "lamb runs" every day to bring them into the nursery. That will help.

We saw an infant t-shirt at a farm show last month that had a drawing of "Jacob Lambs" on the front. Seeing how cute they are, it sounds like the perfect t-shirt for our upcoming grandbaby, don't you think?

TKB

Edited by lovinthislife on Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 02:38 PM

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Posted on Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 02:47 PM by rkmyersrus
I love your blog. We have similar interests and would like to list you as one of my friends on my blog and would love to be listed as one of yours!
We have done turkeys for years ourselves. We are from Idaho.
Kim Myers

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