Babies, Babies, Babies

As the title states, today was a day full of babies. We had one calf, and twelve lambs today (and one was delivering when I went home).

We had one set of twin lambs early this morning. Then, while we were ear tagging and needling yesterday's babies, Ewe#1 had one lamb, then Ewe #2 had twins (ewe and ram), and then Ewe #3 had one. Ewe#1 tried to take Ewe#3's lamb, so we moved Ewe#1 and her baby into a building; she looked like she was going to have a second lamb, so MIL put on the gloves and pulled out lamb number two (two ewe lambs). By the time we were done dealing with Ewe #1, Ewe#3 had had her second lamb, so we went in for some lunch. When we came back out Ewe #3 had had a third lamb! (two ewes and one ram).
About an hour later Ewe #4 had twins (ewe and ram).

This evening we caught all the cull goats and ewes so we can send them to market tomorrow morning. While chasing the sheep, T noticed that Ewe #5 had a lamb hanging out of her. FIL and I chased her down, and I pulled the lamb out; she stopped at one (ram). Another ewe was starting to lamb just after this so T and MIL stayed out to watch her (I'll let you know tomorrow what she had).

Just a note- hairless ewe didn't make it through the night, her mom just hadn't been taking good enough care of her, and although we tried our best to save her she just wasn't strong enough.