01 Jul 2010
Still Surprising

This has been a year of surprises, and today we got another - our seven year old Shetland ewe dropped twins! Once again, we hadn't even known she was in a family way. There's only one active ram in the flock, and he's not yet a year old, and has been segregated since March from all the ewes we don't want bred (including Meliah, the Shetland, who, incidentally, was not named by us, and was born well before anybody outside of Illinois had heard of Barak Obama).

But these lambs are pretty obviously his - white, curly fleece, pink noses and no googley Shetland eyes. Given the gestation period for sheep of ~155 days, that would put the breeding right around February 2nd.

In other words, right about the time we did our landnama, and our luck completely changed.

When the clue phone rings, I always try to answer.

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