Sheep Mathematics

Caridwen is a sheep math wizard, or at least an A student. She can count to three. Not only does she feed all three lambs but if she has only two she goes in search of the missing one. The way this years' lambs are running and bouncing around at very young ages keeping track of three at once is a big job.

Last year when we made up sets of triplets we separated them and fed the lambs with creep feed and the moms some grain. Caridwen is a big strong ewe and looks like she is feeding all three for now. So we're just going to watch and wait and see how she does. We can always separate her and feed her and the lambs extra of she starts to lose body condition.