The sheds are now all mucked out, disinfected and bedded down; the gates and hurdles have been set up so we can get in and out easily with an armful of lambs and we are ready to go.
We were going to get the ewes in this evening but as the weather is so beautiful, we thought we would give them one last night at grass and they will come in tomorrow. Bringing them in early just means they will eat more of our rapidly dwindling feed stocks, which are down to the bare minimum after the long and very hard winter. Bringing the sheep in too late means lambs born outside that would be vulnerable to predators and changes in the weather in the first few hours of life. As usual, brinkmanship rules.
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