After the birth of Holly’s twins, I said lambing is over – barring surprises.
Meet the surprise.
Paloma was huge, but wasn’t showing as much of an udder as she usually does. Or even as much as the other ewes. Her expected lambing date came and went. Her udder was what you’d expect to see from an unbred ten year ewe that has twinned or tripleted for nine years up until a couple weeks before lambing – old lady saggy. Even then it was only the slightest increase in size, but the wool started to shed, a small groove showed up between the udder halves, and the color slightly pinked. It was enough to make me feel that lambing wasn’t over. She was huge, but slow to develop an udder this year. I expected twins or triplets, but Patchwork Major was just one big boy. Most of my lambs are 6 or 7 lbs. He was 10 1/2 lbs.
Major was born with an “angel fleece” which refers to the primitive birth coat referred to a halo. If you look at his chest, you can see the true fleece showing.
Major is a four horned lilac ram – Patchwork Paloma x Wicked Child Sten. He is growing! Paloma is feeding him well.
The other lambs are growing well and photos will be updated soon at:
https://www.patchworkfibers.com/newlambs.html
Today they were too busy sniffing my pants for me to get good photos.
This owl watches me often while I’m feeding he (she?) makes a cooing sort of noise while on watch that is different from the who, who, whowho
The wild azaleas are blooming.
This tangled mess of handspun corespun Jacob yarn will one day be a handwoven rug.
Patchwork Farm Jacob Sheep 