Mrs Jacob has had a lamb!

We had given up on any more lambs this year, and have been busy fretting that perhaps Harris had fried his swimmers when he got caught in the electric fence. If that was the case we would have to eat him and get a new ram. But then this afternoon I went up to the cow and sheep field to see what the cows were up to (as we were about to move them). I saw a little black thing that I couldn't quite work out what it was. Then I realised it was a little lamb! We had a quick look at it and it is a girl. Black with a white spot on her head.
Other years Mrs Jacob has had twins. Both boys. She is quite old now, so maybe 2 was too much.
She is somewhere in this photo. Honest!

Maybe more will arrive. Sheep gestation period is 5 months and they come in to season about every 3 weeks for a certain part of the year. It is 8 months since Harris went back in with the ewes after his accident, so it took Mrs Jacob 3 months to get pregnant. It doesn't seem terribly likely that others will have taken so long to get pregnant. But you never know, or perhaps November was just outside their mating season.

We have also sheered two of the sheep. Harris and Little Miss Suffolk as they are both a year old with super thick fleecy coats and they were too hot poor things. We may do some others or maybe not.