ladies in waiting - 28th January, 2012

It is very cold this morning, but incredibly sunny, and not even 9:00am. All the girls are happy in the big barn, and lambing is not far away now. Our very experienced shearer came a few weeks ago, and sheared all our sheep - he leaves just over a quarter inch of fleece on, it makes lambing so much easier and cleaner, and the show team will be just about right for our early shows. They have been separated into early lambers and twins, and late lambers and singles. The camera is set up, the baby monitors have been checked out and I will hopefully set them up today - they are great for picking out "the noises" the ewes make when starting to lamb. Eight lambing pens are now set up and duty shepherds spare bed is made up!! We have bought a whiteboard and all the ewes are listed - don't know why we didn't have one before, much better than my clipboard. I am going to attempt to add two photos to this blog, one of the pregnant girls and one of the recyclable lambing pens we have - ideal for ewe with single lamb - orphan lamb - lamb adopter - we have used these for a few years and are very pleased with then.