The Doerksen family raises 450 ewes on their Mountain View Acres sheep farm located south of Hwy #3 between Killarney and Boissevain, and this spring's lambing season held one surprise after another! Carleen Doerksen says they don't lamb all 450 at the same time but rather rotate lambing season throughout the year. "We kind of have three groups of ewes and they lamb every three to four months," explains Doerksen. "So, they're all staggered groups and so we're lambing every three to four months. Not every ewe is lambing that often. They lamb every eight months." So, over the last go-round they saw 165 ewes lamb with a final count of 350 baby lambs born - in 3 weeks! Do the math and you can see there were a few multiple births in the mix. Doerksen says they had three sets of quintuplets, 18 sets of quadruplets and the rest were mostly twins and triplets. "It was good, very good. And the lambs were born nice and big, which like, of course, can be harder on their moms. But sometimes when you get those quints, they end up being quite tiny. And for the most part, they were they were good size. So, we were happy with that," she adds.