Our excellent supplier of ewe lambs, Mik-Lin Farms of Sutton, delivered another batch of their finest to us last week! We have been really fortunate to get all our new breeding stock from one source like this. It really cuts down on the different diseases, parasites, etc. that sheep are good at getting!
They have settled in nicely, but we have to somehow rename some of these barns. When asked where the new ones were, I said ‘the pig barn’, which was confusing enough when there was pigs in all of the barns, let alone now that there isn’t! My immediate family all knew I meant the addition to the old bank barn that was the first barn built for pigs, (as opposed to the cover-all, or the ‘new barn’ that were also built for pigs). The in-laws, however, required an explanation; and you can’t really blame them!!
We have also started in on the second batch of sheep lambing, I think we had almost a week in between the last of the first batch and the first of the second batch. We were just getting them sheared in preparation for lambing, but before we were finished, one of the first ones we sheared, had twins. Guess it’s a good thing she went first!