Last night, by the light of a torch, we assumed that the two lambs on the ground belonged to Domino as they were being licked by her. Although, to be fair, Cieste was standing around near mother and lambs.

When I went out to see the lambs early this morning the girl was being head butted by Cieste and I didn’t know what to do. Jeremy suggested I wait and keep an eye on the situation and then I saw that Domino was feeding the head butted girl, “Floppy”, whilst Cieste was feeding and licking the boy lamb. All was well we thought.

Then within an hour of feeling happy and content that each ewe had a healthy single lamb and, almost in front of our eyes, Domino gave birth to twins in quick succession.

So it seems that Cieste had, indeed, given birth to twins last night and Domino had allowed the girl, Floppy, to feed from her swollen teats until her twins arrived late this morning. (I hope you are keeping up because all this is very confusing and quite upsetting). So, at this point we took Floppy away from Domino and took Cieste and her boy lamb and Floppy and put them in a sheep pen in the barn.

Cieste is continuing to head butt Floppy and refusing to feed her so we are now resorting to a bottle and hoping that Cieste will accept that this is her lamb.

Meanwhile, out in the field, we heard and saw Little Miss Pretty straining in labour and within seconds she stood up and a lamb emerged from her rear end, and slid onto the grass.

She began to lick the lamb and we watched it breath and wriggle. click below

The big lambs, less than one week old) are sturdy and happy and always together with their sibling and mothers, Pinky and Perky. Click below

Three more lambings to go……here’s hoping no one else will need a bottle – anyone fancy doing the night feeds?