After the kindergarten class visited on Tuesday, we had a pretty steady day Wednesday. I worked Thursday and Friday so T and MIL were on their own. Unfortunately for them, there were 21 babies born on Thursday! They went out at 9am to do one job and it didn't get done until 6pm because it was so busy in the pen. T told me that at one point she had her arm in a ewe and saw an even worse problem and had to get out of ewe #1, catch ewe #2, re-glove and pull a very stuck baby. Happily there were no serious issues, just a lot of basic problems that would have resulted in the death of the babies if T and MIL had not been there to help (such as the stuck lamb that would have suffocated).
Saturday we had a bunch of friends over for a wiener roast (turned out to be a bbq because of fire bans) and to see the baby animals. The children were all thrilled and did a fantastic job holding and playing with the lambs, kids, and cria.
Today was a lazy day for me. There weren't many lambs so I actually had enough time to finish planting my garden (yeah!).
We did have a new cria today, so that was exciting. He is really cute, and will be our last one this year (hopefully we have 2 or 3 again next year). Here he is, we're thinking of calling him Rusty:
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