[Jacob-list] Lamb size

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To date about 2/3 of my little flock's ewes have lambed.  I  use a marking 
harness to record breeding dates and keep a log of gestation times  for my ewes. 
 This year most (but not all) of my ewes have gone a  few days longer than 
their individual averages and longer than my farm  average.  (In fact one beat 
my longest recorded gestation by 3  days.)  In addition, most (but, again, not 
all) of the lambs have been  larger than I'm used to (as I suppose one might 
expect with longer  womb-time).  I'm sure this could be attributed to any 
number of factors  from diet to weather to pure coincidence, but I was wondering if 
anyone else was  seeing this trend.
 
-Dan
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