It could have been worse. The better news? All the lambs are robust and cute and cavorting around the play yard, and it doesn’t get much better than that in the shepherd’s world. Here’s hoping your lambing season was as rewarding and fun as ours was! [table th=”0″ colalign=”center|center|center|center|center|center|center”] 2014 Saltmarsh Ranch British Soay Lamb […]
No sooner had I first posted about the ewe/ram lamb coin toss than my brother Jim started firing off emails to me on the finer points of odds-making, including an old game show involving cars and goats. Ordinarily I would ignore anything that concerned goats rather than sheep, but I decided to throw down a […]
Remember the notion that the larger the dataset for lambs, the more likely the split will hover around 50%? And the corollary that as the dataset grows, the percentage of ewe lambs should move towards 50% whether it started above or below that figure? Here are the numbers for Week 4: [table th=”0″ colalign=”center|center|center|center|center|center|center”] 2014 […]
Not long after I put up the post about gender odds in British Soay lambs, it was pointed out to me that since history is no predictor, what’s going on this year? So far, the numbers are not good, but it’s still early in the lambing season. I thought about putting a daily tabulation here, […]