Happy Days

This is one of the quads born two days ago. They are now residing in the orchard next to our house. Yesterday we took the biggest of the four off of the ewe (it was very strong and drinking the lions share of her milk) we've adopted him onto a ewe who'd only had a single lamb.
The difference in the remaining three overnight was very noticeable. The weak one who's legs were previously unsteady and wonky had straightened out and strengthened.
Today we had another single born so we took the smallest lamb off the quad ewe and put it in the adopter with her new mother. So now instead of a quad and two singles, we should have three sets of twins. Much more manageable for us and the ewes.

This evening when I was bringing the ponies in Running Girl (my eldest daughter aged 10yrs) spotted a ewe lying on her own. On closer inspection she was lambing but wild as can be. Between us we got her in and I did a flying rugby tackle to catch her. She had a lamb presenting correctly but I could see its nose, tips of two hooves and a large floppy purple tongue. This didn't bode well.
After a lot of pulling and easing and manipulation of the ewes lady bits, I got the enormous lamb out. It was very floppy and wouldn't put it's tongue away. But I resusatated and poked straw up its nose and got it breathing. We both felt very pleased with ourselves and knew that she wouldn't have landed the whopper on her own and that much longer and it would have been dead. I felt in up to my elbow and couldn't find any more. My daughter declined the chance to feel in as that would be 'yukky' and 'ickky'.
We have put her in the adopter in readiness for any triplets born in the next 24 hours. But you know what sod's law is like, we're bound to get a run on twins and singles now....