Photos of Lambing

My Favorite Picture I took from lambing

I totally forgot to tell you guys about lambing during Easter break 2011. I spent 2 weeks in Staffordshire, England (about a 5hr drive from Edinburgh). It was a lot of work but it was definitely worth all the effort. The days were from about 7am-6pm w/breaks for breakfast and lunch. My friend Cristina and I went together and had an amazing time. The farm also had beef cattle, horses, a few chickens and ducks, and a pig. The farm was beautiful and I loved the family. They were all amazing and treated us as if we were family. We had the tastiest food and I gorged myself on the homemade meals. I never was a breakfast person but while lambing I fell in love with the standard meal of toast, baked beans, and poached eggs. Not to mention the days we had poached duck eggs which are the best eggs ever!

My last meal at the farm yum!

While lambing I also got to help out with a calving! The calf was huge and took forever to get out even with two guys pulling. Now the actually lambing was great as well! Getting to actually help the ewes give birth to there lambs was an amazing thing. We did everything from feeding the sheep, tail docking and castration w/rubber rings, moving the sheep, and delivering lambs. So here are some pictures from my sheep EMS. Hope you enjoy!

Silly Newborn

One of their pretty horses

Newborn's Cute Nose

Garden flowers

Typical Oldtime Lamber Pose

Playing on mommy

Juvenile Bird that couldn't fly that became my friend

Butterfly

Mom's love for her lamb

Beautiful mane

Loved that tree

Enjoying a meal

Delivering a lamb!

Tending to the new lamb

That cat's awesome

Giant single lamb

Helping out with my first calving

The calf the next day!

Ewe giving birth

Such great views

Egg basically with no hard shell so fun and squishy

Older lambs out with their mothers