lambs..

[outdoorguy]

not really widlife but saw my first lambs of the year today... seems early to me??? james

[naturelover]

hi james welcome,yes that lamb is early.

[RobSutton]

Up here on top of the fells it will be the end of March or early April before we get any.

[Meta menardi]

I have always worked with the dates of, tupped firework night, lamb on April fools day. Sheep are in most breeds seasonal breeders, in that the ewe won't come into season till The Right Time, but some breeds are less fussy (Common quoted one was Dorset Horn), and the great thing about the sheep industry was that it was all based on the right time, fairly low inputs, but things like Easter lamb prices, intensive rearing and hormonal control of Oestrus waved their seductive robes across the sensible ways of the past, and now you can have baa-lambs anytime you want, but outside at this time of year sounds like what was known as a freak of nature, e.g. a hole in the fence when you thought the tup had finished and you had taken him out for a celibate winter by himself.

[Deerhunter]

Not that unusual really.

But as has been said most are in March.

I start third week of March

[outdoorguy]

there was at least ten lambs in the field i saw... just seemed a lot earlier than usual... maybe sheep like wind and rain to give birth he he ... james

[Deerhunter]

Oh yes !!

They love it !

[demicav]

I love walking past the fields and seeing the Lambs. I get a warm feeling, maybe because they're associated with Spring and brighter weather.