One of Life's Little Coincidences

We had 2 ewes lamb today. One was anticipated, the other was completely unexpected. The first, the anticipated one, delivered this morning fairly easily, the second, totally unexpectedly delivered this evening thanks to some handy work by the local vet (Dr. Barry Downie from Bailey Vet here in Roseburg). Being a yearling and with a lamb in the wrong position, it had got part way out and couldn't get any further. I thought it was dead having spent almost 30 minutes trying to pull it. It's head had swelled, its eyes were bulging and its tongue was swollen and protruding from the mouth. I thought I saw a couple of signs of life before the vet arrived, but even he at first thought it wasn't going to make it. Anyway, it did. It's shoulder had locked and that's why it wouldn't budge. It was a rather harrowing entrance to the world for a small lamb.

The coincidence is quite fascinating. Last year my daughters named a set of twins - one called Mint and the other Bambi - they were the first twins whose birth we experienced after we arrived here. In fact here is the first picture of them on the day they were born.

It was Mint and Bambi that lambed today, hours apart from each other, both giving birth to boys. Sometimes life throws real curve balls at you.