Whoops

Well I should start with an update as it has been such a long time!!  lambing went well.  well for the jacobs anyway.  Nearly all of our crosses, mules etc had to be assisted, I had pretty much every malpresentation.  Still all went well.  The jacobs were much easier the key really being there as they lambed a little too easy so had to make sure a few of the twins were out of their waterbags.

Last year there were only 2 ewe lambs! so delighted this year that half of the 22 lambs were female.  The jacobs were kept indoors for an exttra fortnight before being put out to give them a head start although of course rthe spring was very forgiving. 

So the plan for next lambing has been to btring lambing as far left as possible.  So with the lambs weaned 6 weeks ago we have decided to sell 2 ewe lambs locally to friends and the other girls will be staying in the flock.  We have 2 tup lambs that we will run on the others are going to the mart as store at the end of the month.

Having attended the jacob sales at worcester and st boswells needing only to pick up our new tup lamb 'Hope Caleb' and perhaps another tup,  I ended up with an additional 6 gimmers and an april born tup lamb.

This evening we sponged the first half of the ewes the rest will be done on sunday, so lambing date set for 24th january!! here we go again.

Really nice to see old & new friends at the shows, it is a shame to live so far from the action the rest of the year.  just go to try and stay away from the rest of the sales!!

Ahh well lack of posting, purged, back to big brother opening night.