Sentence examples for first lambs from inspiring English sources
Ewes have their first lambs at the age of three or four years.
She'd read somewhere that a Greek male is not a man until he has cooked his first lamb.
No lambs from the first lambing were retained as replacements.
The subjects were 20 Suffolk × Mule ewes and their first lamb(s).
After the first lambing, the ewes were inoculated with 103 cfu of Se in a healthy half udder.
Moreover, an earlier first lambing brings about a higher productivity of the ewe throughout its life [ 3].
For a particular combination of fixed effects (average flock, lambing in May, first lambing), these estimates converted to probabilities of 0.155 and 0.114, for L + and ++ dams respectively.
In some breeds such as the Rasa Aragonesa, even though females reach an adequate live weight at 12 13 months, the mean age at first lambing is 17 18 months [ 3], leading to extended unproductive periods.
Ewes experiencing TD or LPS showed more frequent postural changes and visible contractions and tended to show more tail-wagging in the 2 h prior to birth of their first lamb, than did control ewes.
LPS ewes also showed a longer inter-birth interval between first and second lambs than control or TD ewes.
The second lamb, which we had thought near to death, had been cleaned and was walking around confidently.
