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Tilly making friends with the lamb
All was well on Sunday morning, 3 new lambs were born, a single and a set of twins. Dad was on the early morning shift with Amber, Abbie and Aila so plenty hands to help sort them all out.
I went down with the team, minus Dad.  All was well but the pens were full so we needed to free some up. All the lambs in the pens were well fed and bright so we marked them and Amber put them out. Once the pens were emptied we cleaned them out and put...

Proud Amber having lambed her lamb
My first morning off, Dad, Abbie and Amber did the early shift. There were three new lambs a set of twins and a single. All were fine and taken out of the big pen and put in individual pens.
We went down a little later Abbie, Aila, Tilly and myself. Aila has a new found braveness and enjoys walking through the pen of ewes to check water levels. Tilly still prefers to observe....

Form an orderly queue
The first morning in the Big Green Shed! I had some extra help this morning, not least of all from Aila and Tilly but also Abbie, Alisha and a friend up from Edinburgh, Amber. We tentatively walked into the shed and spotted a lamb. As soon as we went...

The Lambing Crew
Today was a big day for Sand Farm. My brother has finished building an agricultural shed and today was the day we put the ewes into it. This is the first time in 49 years that there has been an indoor lambing and the first, ever, indoor lambing for Dad...