Near the beginning of August Rambo has to move away from his ewes. This year he moved up to the farmhouse paddock with this year's two ram lambs (known as wethers as they have had the chop - not actually achieved by chopping anything off!). He has actually been quite calm, for sometimes at this time of year he will be headbutting everything in sight. This is the reason why the wooden fence posts in this paddock now have the protection of an inner electric fence. He has single handedly destroyed the sheep shelter too.
But today was Rambo's big day. The day when he went back in with the ewes. All we had to do was to separate this year's three ewe lambs from the adult ewes and to separate Rambo from the wethers. The operation went fairly smoothly- the only problem was that at some point Rambo would need to pass the three ewe lambs and we would need to encourage him to ignore them! Easier said than done.
As you can see by the photos, everything was soon sorted. With Rambo introduced to the ewes today, it means that the earliest possible lambing will be mid March 2018. Our Easter holidays start at the very end of March, so hopefully lambing will happen while we are not at work. Two years ago three ewes lambed within 24 hours of the earliest possible date. But Rambo must have slowed down a bit for last year we had to wait a couple of weeks and one ewe was a whole month behind the others.
Let's hope that this year lambing is a bit kinder to us and is over quickly. And let's hope that Rambo produces the goods.
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