Rams and lambs

We wanted to get into the same breeding cycle as the farmers around us so our best option was to get ourselves our own ram so that we didn’t interfere with our neighbours breeding. We put him with the ewes in September and after they were sheared we removed him 6 weeks later mid October as they need roughly 6 weeks to 2 months to do the deed, or rather impregnate the ewes.

Our very dear neighbour behind us has allowed us to put our ram with his rams until he is needed again so that a) he has company and b) doesn’t do any damage to fences, etc. to get the other sheep. Gestation period for sheep is 6 months.

We had a surprise yesterday, one of our ewes gave birth to twins, 3 months too early…a randy ram somewhere had gotten through the fence, we see that there are about 6 ewes who look ready to pop…

Here is a pic of the first lambs of 21012

First lambs of 2012 at Journeys Rest, Napier