At day 145 Rory decides to go into labor conveniently in the late afternoon, shortly before I am heading home from work. Tom was in charge that Friday. By the time I got home she had just delivered her 2nd lamb and was busy cleaning it up. But then another came. Three on the ground, we are scrambling to get them nursing then another water bag appeared. OMG a 4th on it's way. The first three were girls, the last a boy. It was a challenge making sure they all had there first drink of milk and knew where to find it. There were lambs everywhere, hard to keep them all straight. But they are a nice variety of colors, don't you think? Now to figure out how to take care of all them.
This is the first time we have ever had a "litter" of this size. Singles and twins are the norm, at least once a year we have a set of triplets. But this is insane. There is definately a little supplementing of food that will have to happen.
This is a picture of Rory taken two days before.
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