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Article: Farmers have lambing season down cold Ohio's flocks growing despite the weather, as their keepers keep them warm and fed.
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- Dayton Daily News
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- February 13, 2007
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ELIZABETH TWP., Miami County -- On farms across the Miami Valley,
lambs are getting an especially wintry welcome into the world this
year. Lambing season -- when ewes give birth -- lasts from Feb. 1 to
mid-March at Ric Wallace's farm near Casstown. He's pleased with the
results so far, despite considerable snowfall and subzero
temperatures that bring out the heat lamps. As of noon Monday, eight
of his family's ewes had had 13 live lambs, with about 75 ewes yet to
give birth beneath the hulking beams of his bank barn, built about
1850. "One of these days, I'll come out and there'll be seven or
eight having lambs at once," said Wallace, whose family has raised
sheep competitively for 50-plus ...