“We started about the tenth of January,” Todd Taylor says. He explains that the 2020 lambing season had a slower start as he didn’t have many ewes bred to lamb early. Then, during the second week of February the floodgates opened and “it’s been six or seven ewes a day and most of them are having twins and triplets.” Since the influx in births in early February things have been hectic for Taylor but he says “it’s been pleasurable so far other than a lot of work and a lot of sleepless nights.”
Taylor is the Shepherd at UW-Madison’s Arlington Agricultural Research Station and he has been a sheep producer his entire life. Josh Scramlin recently visited Todd at the Research Station to check in on the lambing season. To hear their full conversation, click the play button below:
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