‘A person never stops learning’…that
is Glenn’s new mantra.
Today, Glenn, Becky and I returned
from a short afternoon outing to town to run some errands and to have an early
dinner.
Glenn pulled my car under the carport
and Becky immediately knew something was different. On the other side of the fence from where my
car was parked was a brand new baby lamb chasing its mother. We could hear another
lamb baaing behind the accidently closed sheep door to the inside stall. One
baby was out with its mom and one baby was wanting out of the barn to get to
its mom. Becky rushed to open the door
from whence the second baby ran out with a mission…to find its mom.
Seems we are really out of sync for
lambing this season. Glenn allowed the
ram to stay among last April’s new and birthing ewes just a bit too long. Of course, we did not realize Winky's activity
until some of the ewes recently started to expand.
Fortunately, Becky and Glenn got the
expectant ewes up into the barn lot; nine in total, with access to an inside
stall yesterday. And, just in time as tonight will be our coldest night of the
season, to date, at a -3. Some winters
we do not get colder than 30…not this year, though.
Considering it was already in the 20’s
on our early return, those two little baby lambs looked to be in fine shape at
less than four hours old. The cold did not
seem to bother them yet.
They were more concerned with getting
the milk.
And so, Mountain Glen Farm’s 2014
lambing season begins...three months early, but begins nonetheless!
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