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My ewes had their pregnancy scans yesterday and here's some of the girls who are expecting more than one lamb or who need to have a close eye kept on them.
Reasons for 'keeping them close' include first timers , certain breeds (like Blue Faced Leicester etc) as well as the ewes expecting more than one lamb.
Here's one of my favourite Blue Faced Leicesters, Stacey.
Those lovely curls don't keep out the cold or the wet and BFL lambs are born with just little 'corkscrews' of fleece on pink skin.
However, the reason for this post is to show Ruby.
Ruby was a the runt of a triplet birth born in May, and about the smallest lamb I have. Ruby made her way, being so small, through the fence from the field of lambs back to her mother. She came down with the ewes yesterday when they came to be scanned. "No need to scan her' says I as she makes her way past the scanner. "Well, actually she's in lamb" came the comment as he ran the probe over her belly anyway. So....Oh Ruby.....she is tiny!
That's Ruby to the right and in the front of two fairly small ewes of her type.
She really is going to need to be closely watched......or maybe I should have done that a couple of months back!
Reasons for 'keeping them close' include first timers , certain breeds (like Blue Faced Leicester etc) as well as the ewes expecting more than one lamb.
Here's one of my favourite Blue Faced Leicesters, Stacey.
Those lovely curls don't keep out the cold or the wet and BFL lambs are born with just little 'corkscrews' of fleece on pink skin.
However, the reason for this post is to show Ruby.
Ruby was a the runt of a triplet birth born in May, and about the smallest lamb I have. Ruby made her way, being so small, through the fence from the field of lambs back to her mother. She came down with the ewes yesterday when they came to be scanned. "No need to scan her' says I as she makes her way past the scanner. "Well, actually she's in lamb" came the comment as he ran the probe over her belly anyway. So....Oh Ruby.....she is tiny!
That's Ruby to the right and in the front of two fairly small ewes of her type.
She really is going to need to be closely watched......or maybe I should have done that a couple of months back!