Last Sunday our ewes were scanned for pregnancy, we were very nervous before hand, due to fact that during late November 36 of the hunt's hounds had become out of control and charged through our flock of pregnant ewes. Now we usually have the rams late anyway as we don't want the lambs to die of the cold, but he had to stay even longer this time, as we feared that some of them had miscarried.
However when they were scanned all but two were pregnant albeit all of the lanbs were different sizes, which means that some had not miscarried and the ones, who had were covered again.
When looking through our records we found out that one who wasn't pregnant did not give birth last year and that the other (a Ryeland) had complications at birth last year and had suffered a ruptured uterus when pulling the lamb out and the uterus lining clearly hadn't been able to repair itself for the embryo to implant in it.
Never mind, BRING ON LAMBING
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