[AllenFrost]

I found this community while searching for information on shearing sheep.  I sheard my ewe today and now her two lambs will not stop bleating.  It's getting to be dark and they are still bleating as well as the ewe.  I saw that someone else wrote that the lambs possibly do not recognize the mother and are pretty upset.  Mother is also not getting nursed and is also upset.  I hope we all get some sleep tonight, including the neighbors.
I have 20 acres of land in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina which is part of the Appalachian Mountain range.  I have five sheep, a flock of Dominique chickens, a vegetable garden, shiitake mushroom logs, 130 blueberry bushes, grapes and a fruit orchard.  I was raised a city boy so much is new to me. I am learning by diving in and doing things, asking neighbors for advice and reading a lot of books and online blogs.
I'll be slaughtering cockrels in a few weeks, so that will also be a new experience.  I love the life out here and would not want to go back to the lonely city.
I hope to get lots of good advice from this online community.   

[Bangbang]

Hello AllenFrost, 
Big welcome from Aberdeenshire,
Lots of quality help here from good caring people, and lots of laughs too.
 

[Bionic]

Hi Allen,
I am sure you will like being a member of this forum. Lots of people with a diverse set of knowledge on here.
Welcome from a sunny but misty Wales
Sally

[Rosemary]

Yep. the lambs may not recognise mum. We keep ours shut in for a while after shearing until they are mothered up again. The noise is incredible.

And welcome from Carnoustie 

[Fleecewife]

Hello and welcome from Southern Scotland 
 
If your ewe and lambs haven't settled back down, shut them up together until the lambs have fed.  Not only will the dam look different, she will also smell different, but she will be really upset that her lambs appear to be ignoring her.
 
Your place sounds wonderful - an ideal existence 

[chrismahon]

Welcome to the forum AllenFrost from Central England. I have been to North Carolina, just after the gales took all the tops off the trees back in 1988 I think. Opposite side to you I went to a Naval Base where my friend worked, visited a plantation, went to a Po Folks diner -served drinks in old jam jars, got completely wrecked on Miller Light and then got woken up early morning by a woodpecker knocking insects from the street light shades. Lovely place actually, but Georgia was a shock on the way up from Florida.

[in the hills]

Hello and welcome from Powys, Wales. 

[tizaala]

Hello Frosty, welcome to the site , good to have you on board, we want to see lots of photos of your activities and animals please, I'm an Englishman living in Wales, I'll be safe enough as long as you don't tell the Welsh.

[deepinthewoods]

hi from cornwall

[FiB]

Another hello from wales  Your part of the world does sound lovely.  I'm also a city transplant, and have found the folk on this site amazing.  Enjoy.

[Lesley Silvester]

   Hi and welcome from Sunny shropshire in the middle of England.

[Bert]

Hi from the Isle of Mull ( Scotland)

[sabrina]

Hi and welcome from Gamrie in the North East of Scotland. 

[Fowlman]

Hi from the marlborough downs. 

[Mammyshaz]

Hello    and welcome from Durham in the UK. It sounds a lovely setup you live in