first lambs

p1010947 It’s always good to see the first lambs of the year, and on Sunday evening the first lambs arrived in our new lambing barn. With most of the flock looking very heavily in lamb,I knew that it wouldn’t be long before the rush started, and on Monday no less than 50 lambs were born! We’re now with the sheep for almost 24 hours a day, and hoping that the weather will dry up a little so that we can turn ewes and lambs out into the field. Sometimes lambing seems to be so busy that you don’t know where to turn next, but as a I was once told by an old shepherd ‘they only have to arrive once’. And much as I love to see the first lambs of the year, it’s also pretty good to see the last!