Three and three

Yesterday another one of our sheep lambed. She had a pair and they looked completely different! The larger was a boy and all white while the smaller girl had a white head, black rear and Churro brown on her sides. She was a pretty little thing and we were considering keeping her.

Until this morning.

Unfortunately they died overnight. They were tucked nicely back amongst the trees like mom put them there. The girl died before the boy and there was no sign of an attack. We got to discussing it and we never saw either of them eat off of mom. Our thought now is this was mom's first time lambing and she didn't know to let them eat. We should have watched closer to make sure they got colostrum and held mom so they could eat if necessary. She stuck with them the whole time, but maybe they didn't eat.

So we have three living babies (two girls and a boy) and we've lost three so far this year. Not our best time at doing this, but we continue to evaluate and hopefully will become better shepherds as we go along.