Night Drop

Published February 8, 2011 – 9:50 am

When your pregnant ewes start lambing, they do so around the clock. A big ranch like this one will have many lambs being born at once. The easiest way to find them at night is to put them in large pens with lights and frequently wander through listening for mom and baby "talking" or for an ewe laying down birthing. On this ranch there were two 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week from December 'til your band was ready to head out sometime in March. One year we turned out 22,000 ewes and lambs in the spring. That's a lot of hard work, especially outside in the winter!

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