Brown Sheeps 2015 Lambing

So, I haven't been very diligent about keeping this thread updated, have I?
Lambs are doing much better with the "warmer" weather. Although one of the ewe lambs looks like she'll lose the tip of one of her ears do to frost bite.
Most of the lambs have been pretty "delicate" looking. Nothing is really wrong with them and they'll probably make somebody good brood ewes. They just are not what we like to look at. They'll grow into smaller ewes. They backs will be around our thighs which is pretty short for us. We'll be culling pretty hard this year. We like TALL & THICK ewes.
Most of the ewes that will be going have a good bit of horn dorset which is what the shortness is attributed to. The delicate features are pretty much from the rambouillet.

We did have a monster lamb born today. I don't know if it a boy or a ewe yet. It's pretty close in size to the 4-6 week old lambs.

Aww! yes update more!

That monster has some crazy long legs!

It's grandmother weighted #120 at four months....I still miss Big Bertha

BrownSheep said:

It's grandmother weighted #120 at four months....I still miss Big Bertha

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That is insane!
What do you think she weighed after she fully matured?

I love seeing the pics of the lambs.

Probably close to 250. She was weighed again at 7 months and was 190....She was a big lazy ewe. She gave me a set of trips and two sets of twins, all girls. Unfortunately, she was very prone to bloat ( at least once a year). Two years ago ( in 2 weeks) she was part of a group that broke into our chicken coop and ate 50lb of grain. We lost her and one other ewe.

Well our current lamb count is 25. This was a pretty high mortality year. Most of it stemming from the two weeks were back and forth between below zero and above 40.

Everyone is doing well now! Thank goodness.

We are about 60/40 ewes to rams, I think.
2-5 ewes left.

So sorry for the bad year. I always hear that a hard season makes for more ewe lambs, but maybe that's just something people make up!

We would love some more photos of the lambs you do have

yeah.... pics... you know the rules!