18 Signs it is Lambing Season

1. The house is a mess because neither you nor your wife has time to clean it because you are both forever doing something with the lambs

2. You automatically get up at 10 PM, Midnight, 2 AM, and 4AM to "check on sheep" without the aid of an alarm clock

3. You have a 6th sense for that slightly different baa, or nicker that indicates a ewe is in need of assistance

4. That same 6th sense quickly identifies the most feeble of lamb bleats

5. You have been mistaken as someone with a drug problem because you have been caught in public with 2 syringes in your pocket from giving lambs vaccinations and BoSe

6. You fingers are permanently stained by iodine from dipping navels

7. Everything you find yourself tugging on you instinctively give a quarter-twist just as if you are pulling a breach lamb from a ewe

8. You spend more time in your barn then you do in your own home

9. "Two in the house", means you got two sick lambs trying to get better in the house and nothing too do with your own children

10. Your wife is out in the barn in a miniskirt because a ewe decided to drop a lamb just before going out to dinner

11. Your whole life is a set of numbers and acronym's instead of words, as in "let's see, #52 gave birth to #278 and #279 which weighed 8 lbs and 7 pounds, and need to be given 1 cc of BoSe and 1 CC of CD&T and weaned in 60 days..."

12. Telling your kids, "I am going out in the barn", means they might have to get breakfast, lunch and supper for themselves

13. You have given two lambs enigmas, another a feeding tube, and can keep two lambs nursing off bottles in in the same day (with no sleep...see #2)

14. Your clothes smell of lanolin...24/7...no matter how many times you wash them

15. Your kids are well adjusted with the cycle of life because they have witnessed so many lambs die while trying to revive them in your home

16. You have had to call up poison control because you have stabbed yourself with a hypodermic needle loaded with BoSe/CD and T

17. You have the local coyote hunters on speed dial so they can help get rid of lamb losses

18. When you see a newborn lamb, stained with blood and amniotic fluid and they look so frail and lifeless, bleat like a newborn baby, and realize you can help it live; EVERY hardship faced is worth it

18 Signs it is Lambing Season