Frenchie's Lamb!!

Hi Folks --
It's official - we now have the last lamb of the season.

This morning bright and early, Frenchie (one of the CVM ewes) "hatched" a darling little black lamb, and the critically rare breed's numbers increased by one. With something like 500 pure-bred registrations nationwide, this is a Big Deal for our farm. My granddaughter (who is the actual owner) is over-the-moon excited about the new addition. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have changed Frenchie's opinion of people (dislikes them completely -- always has, and probably always will) and she has no interest in a mere person being in the lambing jug with her and the lamb. So we will lay low until jug time is over and then I am sure New Lamb will be handled and halter trained to a fare-thee-well. Personally, even though I am spinning Tunis fleece like mad just now, I am thinking how nice that black fleece is going to look with the grays of the other CVMs.

Thinking of ewe (and the new lamb!) -
The Shepherd