It's nearly lambing time ... wooooohooooooo!

The month leading up to lambing this is just THE BEST TIME of the sheep calendar year. One of my favourite times because it's when I get quality time one-to-one with my girls.

My days have a new routine, I start early in the barn before the school run checking the water troughs are clean, and feeding breakfast to the girls. Lunchtime check again ensure everyone is happy, poop a scoop and then fill all the hayfeeders again after tea.

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Safely sheltered in the barn nestled in the straw with Queen B, Bluebelle and Ruby listening to the gales and rain battering the outside I feel so lucky that I get the chance to be a part of this amazing babydoll family.

The personalities of the mums varies hugely. The years of cuddles and my hands on approach create a close bond with "my" original 8 girls, they'll let me trim their faces and bodies, the girls who joined us and were "new to me" this autumn that are still getting to know me, I have to be careful not to stress them so we're building up contact daily and it's going to be interesting to see how we get on. 

This year, to keep stress to a minimum, I've divided the barn into sections - there are 3 bonded mini groups because in a confined area, the girls can get cranky and head-butting, barging and is not what heavily pregnant sheep need. 

I miss Star, Olive and Lexi who didn't hold their pregnancies this year. The silver lining is they are with their daughters Humbug, Liberty and son Monti from last year so that's always great to see.

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