lambing

I thought that new building they call a lambing shed might have been a place where they were manufacturing the stuff, but it looks like nothing more than a regular lambing shed.”

Death of a Dentist Beaton, M. C. 1997

That, and of course, the mache, when it's in season .... which is only when the lambs are 'lambing'.

One For The Table: Mache is the New Romaine 2009

Cook was talking about lambing which is how he has spent the past few weeks since the end of the tour to South Africa and Saturday's departure for the trips to Dubai and Bangladesh.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

Most farmers are lambing by the end of March, said Mark Morgan, a farmer in the Llanthony Valley.

Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom 2011

Andropov had told his young colleague to keep the conversation flowing, so Gorbachev held forth about the spring lambing season, the record grain harvest, his work on a long-planned irrigation canal.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

The measure of success is the lambing percentage – the number of lambs per ewe.

Back to the land: from London to sheep farming on Eigg 2011

 All records indicate they would have been in Syria around 3BC.  Luke also mentions that the shepherds were watching their flocks by night, which would indicate lambing season.

Five Christmas Controversies | myFiveBest 2009

For farmers in the Black Mountains, spring means lambing: an arduous, 24-hour vigil that lasts for up to eight weeks, leaving many of the protagonists looking as if they've just been released from a POW camp.

Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom 2011

I love all the lore about the tree: that carrying a double hazelnut in your pocket prevents toothache; that hazel twigs used for divining should be cut on Midsummer's Eve; that hazel twigs entwined in a horse's harness would keep it from being enchanted by the fairies; and that the tree's catkins (or lambs 'tails) were positioned around the kitchen fireplace at lambing time to help with the births.

A life less ordinary: Tobias Jones Tobias Jones 2010

While the majority of urban dwellers would not know about silage, lambing season, or anything else to do with farming or rural life, neither frankly do many who live in the country.

One law for townies and one for country folk | Barbara Ellen 2011