Just to chime in, if nobody objects? I don’t live far from welshfarmer and also currently in the throws of lambing, though the farm is mixed, with a couple of hundred acres of arable. Other half is a partner in her parent’s farm business. I have a day job that actually pays, but help out as and when needed.
They’re lambing about 800 ewes at home, roughly split 1/2 and 1/2 between texel and welsh mule ewes, texels are about done, they live with us down on the good ground, the mules are normally on rented ground about 15 miles away at 1200ft, but come down to be lambed (all indoors) and get lugged back up slowly once spring arrives. Mules just starting properly now, 300 or so left at a guess.
All will be fed and fattened to be sold as fat lambs, mule lambs (crossed with texel/charolais tup) will come back down to finish too. Some of the best texel tup and ewe lambs will stay as replacements.
Today is a proper spring day here too, we need it, grass was starting to get a bit tight to turn them out on, but it’ll grow well if this weather holds.