Guess what's new in Dwingeloo this week? LAMMETJES!!! Oh squee, how I love the baby lambs!
I don't know what they're doing out so early. No, really, I don't know anything at all about sheep farming or animal husbandry. So I'm not sure why there are some baby lambs out now when most of them didn't appear until mid-March last year.
Regardless, after Aldus, they're the cutest things in Drenthe!
According to a friend who raised sheep, birthing time all depends on when the farmer lets the ram out. They tried to have theier lambs as close to N Years as possible so they were a good size and weight for the summer fair. Gestation is 146 to 150 days. Also a picture from last spring shows a red streak on the back of Mama Sheep. That mark indicates which of the rams is the father. So much for animal husbandry.
Posted by: Grandma and Papa | February 01, 2008 at 05:57 PM