Spring Break in North Devon

We have just started lambing here at Spreacombe.  The maternity unit is indoors, as it gives us better ability to attend to mothers, day and night.  We have a large pen of expectant ewes and a series of small pens for the newly lambed mothers to bond with their very young lambs.

After we are happy that ewe and lamb are both well and that the lamb drinking milk we move them back outside as soon as possible.  This frees up space in the lambing pen but more importantly sheep prefer the outdoors to indoors.

 All this means that by Easter we hope to have baby lambs in the fields.

In the woodland I notice that the primroses are starting to flower and the birds are beginning to chatter. There are a pair of Canada geese on the pond; I haven’t yet seen if we have any other mating birds in that area. The owl box in the barn housed……pigeon last year. All rather an anti-climax but just goes to show that you can’t control nature.