Lucky Little Lambies

Mum and Dad have been keeping a mother ewe alive for weeks now, giving her injections etc and trying to keep her standing so that she doesn't die.

She was having twin lambs, which apparently can cause problems in sheep - a disease called Pregnancy Toxaemia (or commonly Twin Lamb Disease).

Well it was coming close to the due date of the little woolly nippers, but it didn't look like the mummy ewe was going to make it. If she died during the night, then it meant the lambies died too.

So tonight mum and dad had to make the difficult decision, and they shot the mummy. Dad went to work quickly and got the baby lambs out of the mum's body, and here they are... happy and healthy!



If mum and dad didn't care, the could've let the ewe die a couple of weeks ago and write off their losses. But they didn't. Now they have two little lambs to feed every 2 hours. I hope their hard work pays off and these little guys grow up big and strong.