We've been calling this small mixing pen the "cat corner" (there's a litter of kittens behind that big fan ;-), but I also called this the "pen of confusion" the other day. I was filling water buckets and noticed things were a little crazy and a couple lambs in this pen were probably not nursing off the correct moms. I watched for a minute and sure enough they were all swapped around.
It's not normal for ewes to let other ewes lambs nurse and two of the lambs are a couple days older than the other two so I was concerned the smaller ones were not getting enough to eat. I pulled the lambing book to check ear tags so I could figure out who was supposed to be where and guess what!
The two moms are sisters :-).
It's definitely not an ideal situation, but they seem to be making it work. These are their first lambs so I'm sure they are happy to have each other company and support and between the two of them, they've got this motherhood thing :-D.
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