lambing
Sheep birthing season
Lambing is the season or process during which ewes give birth to lambs, typically occurring in late winter or early spring on sheep farms.
The term also refers to the work of tending sheep during this period, which often requires round-the-clock attention from farmers.
We hired extra help for lambing season.
As a verb form, lambing describes the act of a ewe delivering her young or a farmer assisting with births.
Female ovine
- deliveryConveyance of goods
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- newbornInfant just delivered
- colostrumInitial postpartum milk
parturition · afterbirth · gestation · umbilical · suckle · lactation · neonatal · maternity
One who tends flocks
- flockAnimals gathered together
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
- husbandryFarm management practice
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
grazing · pasture · barn · hay · feedlot · herding · farmhand · rural
Freedom from wrongdoing
- purityUncontaminated quality
- gentlenessSoft, kind demeanor
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
new life · sacrifice · Easter · biblical · flock · shepherd · nativity · rebirth
ewe
Female ovine
colostrum · parturition · afterbirth · gestation · umbilical · suckle · lactation · neonatal · maternity · midwifery
shepherd
One who tends flocks
breeding · grazing · pasture · barn · hay · feedlot · herding · farmhand · rural · tending
innocence
Freedom from wrongdoing
- purityUncontaminated quality
- gentlenessSoft, kind demeanor
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
new life · pastoral · sacrifice · Easter · biblical · flock · shepherd · nativity · rebirth · hope
spring
Recoiling metal spiral
greenery · vernal · awakening · fertility · countryside · bucolic · idyllic · sheepfold · hillside · dawn
fleece
Wool still on sheep
- shearingCutting away fleece
- merinoFine-fleeced sheep breed
- breeding stockAnimals used for reproduction
fiber · lanolin · softness · quality · genetics · selection · bloodlines
- livestock farmingcattle ranch, dairy farm, stud farm, sheep shearing, pig farm
- reproductionreproduction, birth, baby, egg, sperm
- rural lifefarms, village, villages, farming, farmhouses
- Sheepewe, ram, merino, fleece, pedigree
- farmworkharvesting, farmworkers, planting, farm labor, crop farming
- pastoral lifeshepherds, shepherding, herders, herding, herdsmen
lambingslaughtering
Killing many violently
culling · butchering · shearing · death · weaning
- lambing seasonWhen sheep bear young