Two weeks before City Farm’s Fifth Annual Sheep Shearing Shindig, the three bred ewes were due to give birth.  Last week, Juniper and Poppy each had two males, and Clover, the oldest, got more  tired but didnt freshen.  Every day (and night) anxiety increased, and it was feared that she and her offspring might not make it.  Yesterday, Kayla and Kate tried for hours to induce labor and by reaching inside Clover to pull the babies out.

Along with Sequoia, the Farm’s Education Director, some friends of Kayla and Kate came by and brought them supper.  I showed up with beer.

When I got up this morning, this text and pictures greeted me:

Though three lambs were expected, it looked as if she only had two.  Fortunately they were ewes. The plan was to bottle feed them and raise them as tame sisters who would take direction and affection and lead the other sheep.

I put together a greeting card for the lambs and their wonderful caretakers and left it in the Farm office on my way to meet Jesse and crew for the first day of work on the Ag-Ec project. Then I came back home to copy the card to this blog. While doing so, this arrived from Kayla:

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