Well, that’s lambing over for another year. Just like last year, it’s been a straightforward event with no great traumas, a couple of lambs with a front leg back and a couple of large lambs that needed a bit of a tug to bring them into the world, but that’s it.
Playing percentages
Touch wood, up to now, no fatalities. And to add to a great lambing, we have ended up with one-third tup lambs and two-thirds ewe lambs - just about the perfect ratio. The grass is showing signs of growth. We have one decent day, then a couple of cold wet days; we need it to grow as our faithful old standby of mangel-wurzels has nearly finished.
They will be drilled in May, then they grow and fill out all summer, and we harvest them in October. Once stored, we start feeding them at Christmas time and they have lasted until halfway through April, so it is nearly a year’s cycle. The sheep have munched their way through ten tons of the things. I feed them more after lambing than before as they are purported to be 90% water, and this quite noticeably
