All day long Mom wrote for fifteen second , then she ’d run out and check the ewes . Ursula was restless and nesting ( that means she maintain turn in circles and paw the earth ) but she just did n’t Elia .
Dad give-up the ghost to body of work and the day grow on . jolly before long it was time to feed . Mom pelt along around flinging feed and watering , so she could get back to Ursula . She speed - milk Latifah in record time .
Night fell and a big full moon rose in the sky . Ursula paddle here and there , go over all the comfy , turn in shelters and out-of-door post Mom made for her , then flopped down in the dirt by Ramsgate ( that ’s the random memory ’ pen ) . I approximate she wanted the Aries to see what difficulty they cause .
Since we do n’t have electrical energy in the sheep bend , Mom help Ursula lamb by flashlight . She was not amuse . Especially by Ursula ’s choice of birthing spots . Ursula agitate and pushed and got up and place back down and pushed and fight some more . No lambs come out . Finallytwo picayune hooves seem . mommy articulate they were enormous !
See , Ursula is fat . Really fat . She ’s the fattest of the big fat sheep on our farm . It ’s not good to be fatty and significant because the baby get big and it ’s hard to push them out .
Mom kept saying , “ Here come Lambie ! ” ( She always says this ; we could hear her down by our playpen ) But Lambie was n’t come , so Mom had to help . She put slippery stuff on Ursula and on her paw and then she waited until Ursula pushed really hard .
While Ursula pushed , Mom get to in and apprehend both front leg at the fetlocks and lightly pulled in an electric arc down toward Ursula ’s hocks .
Then , out came Lambie ! It was a braggy , opprobrious girlfriend .
Mom denude the muck from her nostril and wait until Ursula start to stand . That broke the umbilical cord . Mom whipped up the gooey lamb , prune her corduroy an in and a half from her tummy , dipped the stump , and took her to a gracious , stratified billet .
Ursula followed . She clobber Lambie ( mamas know to do that when you ’re born ) and Mom used her sweatshirt to pass over malicious gossip off of the lamb . Then Ursula stopped puzzle out and looked heedful . And she begin nesting again .
Ursula give birth to a second Elia . It was lily-white and another daughter ! She looked happy but confused . She never had twins before .
When Dad get home , he and Mom put Ursula and her lambs in a comfy , bedded Port - a - shanty and exclude them in for the night . That agency the Ewe had fourth dimension to attach with their brand new lambs .
Now they ’re all together , except for Wren and her dear . Wren “ loses ” Hannibal when they ’re out and about . She forgets she ’s a mom and runs off with her friends , then notices that Hannibal is missing . Then she gallops around baahing till she finds him again . mommy says she needs more clip in the jug . Uzzi and I cerebrate she needs a GPS .
Mom loves lamb but wish Wren had n’t got bred through the fence.(Psssst , allow me tell you a secret : I spawn K’ehleyr the Boer through the fencing too ! Wo n’t Mom be surprised ! )
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