Purplequeenvt in 2026

I think I’ll be able to leave both babies with Fyne and supplement with bottles. In my experience, leaving lambs with mom and trying to help feed them never ends well and it’s a constant fight to get them to take the bottle. These 2 though have already figured out bottle = food after 2 feedings (they didn’t fight the first time either) and both jumped right up and took the bottle on their own.

I’ll get them switched to the lamb bar in a few days.
 
I arrived home to chaos. As soon as I got out of my car, a ewe started calling to me from out in the field. I changed, warmed up the milk for Fyne’s babies, and grabbed a flashlight.

In the maternity ward, Briar had her baby under control. Farr and Fyne’s babies were racing around causing trouble and getting in the middle of Twig and her new baby boys.

Out in the field, I found Imogen (Border Leicester) stuck under the cedar tree. She had picked up a section of fence wire (probably something I missed when installing the woven wire last fall). She had gotten it wrapped around herself and gotten tripped up and cast. She was a little bloated and has a scrape on one of her legs, but she hopped up and dashed off to barn as soon as she was free to catch up on her dinner.

Bramble looks to be in labor and my wifi is still down so I’ll be making several trips out to the barn tonight.

The estimate now for the return of the wifi is tomorrow morning around 9. It really needs to be or I’m going to be beyond stressed at work tomorrow. Freyja, my geriatric, and Symphony, potential triplets are both due tomorrow and Symphony’s udder doubled in size today.

Briar’s beautiful baby girl


Twig’s little boys. They are both brown with a bit of white on their heads. I was really hoping for spots with Twig since she’s spotted, but I guess I should be glad they aren’t since they’re boys. 😂


 
Doesn't your sister live next to you? Is she and husband gone long hours as well? I was thinking maybe one of them could go check things for you. It's rough being at work when much more interesting things are happening at home. I'm glad you got home in time to set Imogen free. Sheep yell for help for you to come to their rescue.
 
Doesn't your sister live next to you? Is she and husband gone long hours as well? I was thinking maybe one of them could go check things for you. It's rough being at work when much more interesting things are happening at home. I'm glad you got home in time to set Imogen free. Sheep yell for help for you to come to their rescue.

Yes, but they were out of town for the day.
 
Symphony lambed this afternoon. She only had 2 instead of the 3 we thought she’d have.

Ram


Ewe - she has spots! She’s got the graying gene so they’ll disappear pretty fast but *I’ll* know they are there.


I had to run home from work after they were born because he boy (the all black one) took off across the pen almost as soon as he was on his feet and proceeded to nurse off every other mom in the pen and bounced around with all his new lamb friends. Poor Symphony is in the corner cleaning off his sister and yelling at him to get his “butt back over here this minute!” He didn’t listen. I got them jugged up and came back to work.

Positive is that I got another feeding in Fyne’s babies instead of one AM and one PM.
 
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