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Article: COUNTING SHEEP: NEWBORN LAMBS KEEP THIS FAMILY HOPPING.(CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 30, 1997
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Byline: LIZ SZABO, STAFF WRITER
WITH NEWBORNS dreaming just next door, Robin and Tom Freeman often sleep with one eye open, listening for the cries of their new arrivals on a monitor beside their bed.
They have welcomed 35 babies just this year - the newest lambs born to Gum Tree Farms.
``It's just like listening for a baby,'' said Tom Freeman, 50, and a father of two grown children. ``There's a big difference between an ordinary `baa' and a `Baa-ahh! Come help me, I'm having a baby!' ''
With their menagerie growing by the day, there's rarely silence for these lambs. The Freemans' flock of nearly 100 sheep live side by side with four ...