Sheep and cold wet weather not a good mix

There are a lot of ways for a lamb to end up as a bottle baby. Their mother gets sick and they are orphaned. They are born with a physical problem, or the mother’s body doesn’t produce enough milk. There’s so much that can go wrong, sometimes it amazes me that it ever goes right. We started lambing last week, and so far we’ve had three sets of triplets, too many babies for a single ewe to raise…