First lamb of the new decade has arrived!

MoneyPenny our trusty Teeswater Romney ewe, delivered a 13# single ewe lamb yesterday morning, bright and early as they always seem to do, 12:48 am.  This is our Romney ram Edgar's first lamb ever, and this little gal is a 3/4 natural colored Romney x 1/4 Teeswater.  She is strong and spry and mama has already broken out of the lambing pens to take her outside for the day.  I tried a couple times to put them back in the pen, but Money was so perklempt about being inside, I just gave up.  Mama knows best anyway.  It is a mild day and our sheep are well seasoned and they need to be tough here in the forest with the Michigan winters.  I like the lambs outside as much as possible unless the weather is too cold+wet, or too harsh with cold winds.  This little girl was sold before birth, so we will not name her. But she has already found her popcorns, and is bouncing all around. MoneyPenny is our strongest mother thus far and I trust her 100% to monitor her lamb well. We won't have anymore lambs for the next few weeks.  MoneyPenny was out of schedule because we took her to the artificial insemination clinic back in September.  They did a fresh collection of sperm from Edgar while he was there as well, and inseminated Money right there.  Lily also went but didn't take. Money delivered on schedule to the dot.  About 8 hrs to spare from exactly 147 days from time of insemination.  That was just an experiment for us as an invitation from our vet.  We don't do AI in our flock, and will probably never do so again.