Bad start to the lambing

We've had a ewe with a calcium deficiency (sp?) for a few weeks and she's had treatment and is very weak, we knew she was full of lambs and that if there was going to be trouble it would be with her, well, unlucky us, she starts to lamb but gets into trouble and in the end produces three dead lambs, one of them being our first black one ever. And we find out that if she'd had lambed 24 hours earlier there would be three happy lambs, and the ewe would be more encouraged to get better.

So I dug the three graves and the ewe is lying in a pen looking like she's lost the will to live. Great start to the lambing season.

~Meggiewes~

The lambs are called Alnitak, Mintaka and Alnilam, strange names I know, but those are the names of the three stars in Orions belt.