I've been wondering, and many people have been asking me, how we will know if Aoife & Beatrix are pregnant? So... I 'goggled': "how do you know when an ewe is pregnant?" Basically, my five minute research yielded no great answer to my question. Many sites stated it was "difficult" to determine if an ewe is pregnant without "ultrasound or other medical equipment." Another site stated you will know if your ewe is pregnant if she does not go back in heat. Well, that doesnt help me much either, as I don't know what an "in heat" ewe looks like. Another website stated a ewe will be visably "pregnant" about six weeks prior to full-term gestation. On another website, I came across the "Sheep Gestation Table/Lambing Date Calculator." This table was some-what informative as I figured out the typical gestation period for a sheep is 145 days. If Aoife or Beatrix got pregnant today... we could expect baby lambs around our 11th wedding anniversary (mid-April.) We got Ace (0f Base- as I like to call him- sorry, I came to age in the '90s) in the middle of October. If they started 'gettin' busy' a week or so later, we could see lambs as early as the middle of March. So, to answer the question of "How will we know if Aoife & Beatrix are pregnant?", I will answer with: We should have a good idea if they are pregnant by February or March, as they should be visably pregnant. If we do have baby Tunis lambs in the spring, this is what they will look like (see below):
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