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[Thomas Simmons]

Well, my dear old Marilla finally gave birth - 152 days after the observed breeding! (I'm so glad everyone decided to wait until I was homebound from snow to start dropping lambs!)

Thanks to Joan Horak for coaching me through this one:  Marilla's water broke at 3:00 pm this afternoon; the front hooves of the lamb were sticking out at 6:00 pm, and in spite of all the grunting and pushing, that's pretty much how things stayed until 7:45 when the head finally came out.  She was pushing maybe a 1 1/2 minutes apart for a LONG time, and 15 minutes ago we finally delivered.....A HUGE ram, with two horn buds that i swear are bigger than his hooves! 

For those of you who bought some of Dan Kennedy's PEI flock, Marilla was one of those ewes.  She is 4H, about 85% dark, with blue eyes and a thin "mustache" that connects her muzzle patch to her two eye patches.  She was bred by Levi, a 50/50 4H ram with brown eyes.

The ram they produced must be 85% - perhaps 90% - dark, but with very white legs and *blue* eyes.  He hit the hay and promptly stood up and started checking out everything in the barn!  Marilla is still fat, and i'm wondering if I'm going to find another little one in an hour or so;  and these horn buds are so huge - and both parents so strongly 4-horned - I'm wondering of these are really fused bases and there are more than two horns here..hmmmm......

thom
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