Lambs as a (unexpected) birthday present.

Our 16 lovely ewes came back home a few weeks ago for lambing. I counted and re-counted and re-re-counted the dates from when they first went in with their rather ugly beau last year and, unless the gestation period for sheep has changed without me being told about it, they were due, at the earliest, on 1st April.

On the 16th March, which is Dermot's birthday, I came out in the morning to find these little darlings......

There was another set of twins too.  Their mum wasn't too bright but a vet visit restored her even if our bank account felt a bit sickly afterwards. All good now and today the dirty deed was done with the elastic bands and the 'knacker crackers' as 3 out of the 4 are ram lambs. There's a rama lama ding dong joke in there somewhere....

Now waiting to see whether the other 14 are going to be early or on time.  Such fun!

Progress.....slow but steady

The straw bale barn is on it's way still - no sign of any straw bales yet (dreading the day when they are as yours truly will be helping to cart all 500 from the big barn!) but a man with a lorry full of brick rubble turned up today and dumped a load ready for the floor.

Thank goodness the field has dried out!

Then another 2 loads of thatching reed arrived.
One load had to be taken off the trailer in high winds - such fun! Not.

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