Catching a Lamb

The best time to catch a newborn lamb is when it's less than a few hours old. After about 12 hours, they can outrun humans. So, when a ewe has lambs in the pasture, I have a short window of time to catch them and bring them to the barn to dunk their umbilical cords in iodine and give them a squirt of vitamins and minerals. This morning, Price (Esther's twin sister) had a set of twins in the pasture. Of course, she was in the far section of the pasture. So, I found myself walking backwards with about 18 pounds of cyring lambs and a bleating ewe circling me. No one was happy.