Yes We Are In Our 2nd Lambing Stage

Stage 2 of lambing has commenced.. So off I went this morning, camera and James in tow, to take phots and have a look. As we don't lamb here at our house we have to travel to take part in, or see any lambing. This little lamb had been born just minutes before we arrived and mum was encouraging him to get up and was licking him clean all over. There are lots of lambs around now and luckily the weather is being kind to us, although there is lots of rain, it is fairly warm. When a lamb and it's mother go out into the fields the mother ewe will tuck the lamb up against the hedge or tree, out of the wind, and very well sheltered from the rain and leave it there whilst she grazes or eats at the feeders. It is surprising how warm and dry the lambs usually reamin. Of course the shephard has to check them every day once outside, because, as with humans, every so often you get a Ewe who is a 'bad' mother and forgets her little one, or leaves it too long without feeding it, so our shephard, Wyn, takes them in hand........