One of the wettest winters on record has resulted in Ellers being
continually saturated and ironically the pond field has become the driest.
We had thought about moving the sheep to our neighbours land, but the sheep
had a refusal to load moment or two! Meaning the pond field it was for our first
lambing year!
There was no way we were going to be able to move the field shelter as at
the moment is mud glued to the ground, so we came up with the plan of making
pens with shelter area out of hurdles, tarpaulin sheets and the sides were made
out of IBC containers (large plastic contains used to store water and other
farming feeds and products).
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| Clover |
Half term week was our due date for lambing and we started lambing right on
time with Clover having twin ewe lambs on 11th February. We only have five ewes and I am sick of saying
the ewe with the forward facing horns and two spots on her side, so yes she is
now called Clover and the other four ewes were named as they lambed too.
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| Two Horns |
A couple of days later and two horns lambed with twin ewes again, then Jo,
Bramble and finally Thistle on the 14th March. So now we have three
sets of twins and two singles and fingers crossed things will continue to go ok with lambing 2016. I think I now
have a little more understanding of farming and have learnt so much with our
first lambing. Although there have been a few worries at times so far I am
still hooked on sheep!
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| Jo Ewe |
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| The benefits sometimes of getting up early! |
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| Bramble |
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| Thistle |
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| It flooded for one day and we had snow another day! |
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| Jo ewe on baby sitting duties! |
