2 months
Just like the countdown until Christmas the countdown to lambing has started for our flock. By now our ewes are three months pregnant and at home eating hay. For sheep the gestation period is about 5 months or 142-152 days on average. We always plan to lamb in January since lambs born around this time are the perfect size to use for 4-H, no matter how stupid it may seem because it generally is the coldest time of the year. We have developed a system to make sure that lambs born on colder days don't succumb to hypothermia or pneumonia that I will discuss in posts when we have started lambing.
Countdown to Christmas: 35 days
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