Charlotte, our Leicester Longwool, has had her lambs, finally. The first week of June is very late to be lambing, but at least it should be nice and warm with plenty of grass. Should, I say, because this week has been more like March than June with cold, wet and windy weather striking us hard.

We got Charlotte in December, but decided to breed her any way to keep her from potentially going barren. We crossed her with my nephew’s fine Cotswold Ram and have been fortunate to get twins–one ram lamb and a nice ewe lamb. We will keep the ewe lamb to breed back to a Leicester or Cotswold ram to continue and grow our wool flock. The ram lamb will be castrated and become next Easter’s Dinner.

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