A bit of an incident

Lambing is now in full swing, so far we have 21, a mixture of Scottish Black face and Texel and Texel Jacob cross.

The blackies seem to like having single tup lambs whilst the lowland girls prefer girls, so much so the first four are all girls, which is great for me as it means they are keepers!

I had a bit of an incident on Monday whilst trying to catch a blackie ewe who was clearly having an issue lambing.  Why sheep can't stand still for you to help them like the alpacas do is beyond me.  Instead I spent two hours trying to catch the flipping thing in a 50 acre field, through the stream, down the bank and then over...

Thankfully I managed to escape without much damage and a very nice passerby who saw me come off came over to make sure I was ok and helped me right the quad again.  However I decided to pursue the sheep on foot for a while, still without success!

When Paul got back we managed with a two pronged attack to catch the poor girl and I eventually managed to get the lamb re positioned and deliver it, sadly it was dead.  Thankfully the ewe is ok and seems quite happy despite a pretty traumatic labour and nothing to show for it.

And I would like to say a big public thank you to my knight in shining armour whoever you were, it's nice to know there are still some great human beings out there.