The Vulva

I'm still crossing my fingers that some of our ewes might be pregnant.  We are all first timers here and my girls are yearlings and slightly under size but we are still hoping to pull off the odd lamb.

Here are my latest suspects.  This is Cocoa who is my biggest girl at 96lbs.

This is her from above.  She's always been a bit wide but that bump looks more than just fat.

This here is Ugly Betty.  

She was named Ugly Betty because we have only two white ewes.  A pretty one and an ugly one.  We were calling her Ugly White for a while which made me think of Betty White which once combined became Ugly Betty.  Anyway, she is presently Dodge's (the ram) favourite.  He's been mounting her often lately so hopefully this means July babies.

Now I am going to post some vulva photos so if you find this hard to look at...well you've been warned.

This is Freckles vulva.  If you recall I mentioned in an early post that I thought she might be pregnant.  She is far too small to be pregnant at 68lbs so are hoping we are wrong on this one.

This is Cocoa's back end.

They say you can tell from the vulva whether a ewe is in heat or pregnant but truthfully I haven't a clue.  But to be honest, I never looked at their vulva's before I thought they might be pregnant so really don't have anything to compare them to.

This final vulva belongs to Caramella.  She was very flighty and didn't like me touching her back end or taking her photo back there.  Shy girl.

It's hard to tell in this photo but her vulva cups upward.  I've read somewhere that means something but I can't remember what.  Here's another attempt at a photo.

So there you have it.  If nothing else, these photos are a good recording of the progress of my ewe's changing vulva's.