what's new in the sheep shed this week?

We had all the lambing ewes scanned a couple of weeks ago. This tells us how many lambs they are having and helps us to feed them appropriately. Those having triplets need to be fed well through the last couple of months before lambing, those having twins need some extra feed gradually increasing towards their expected lambing date, but those having singles do not really need any extra as the lamb can get too big and then lambing is difficult.
We have seven expecting triplets and we put these plus some older ewes in the back field after the scanning as there was quite a lot of fresh grass on it. They were also enjoying the ivy that we cut off the wall for them (see pic). This soon changed after all the rain and by the beginning of this week we had to bring them into a shed. They now have a lovely dry straw bed but can still stand out in the rain in the yard if they really want to!