If I recall, Sheep have two "horns" to the uterus. And like many animals with
such an arrangement, one can maintain a pregnancy in one horn while 'expelling'
a pregnancy in another. Nature's redundancy can be helpfull this way. Many
rabbit breeders I communicate with indicate that the need to rem
Hi, Mary, friends of ours had a Dorset who lambed twice, 17 days or one
cycle apart. They knew both lambs were hers for sure. Both were
healthy. I have heard about that happening to other ewes also. Rare but
not impossible.
Please keep us posted on the ewe's condition.
Peg Haese in chilly SW Wisc
Breeder Friends,
I hope you can help me with a strange problem. I have a ewe who gave
birth to a large (6.75 lb.) and healthy single ram lamb on March
13th. Her earliest possible 5-month due date was April 1st, so this
lamb was 18 days premature. My ewe had no milk at all. After
keeping th