We started our official lambing this week, carefully planned to coinside with warming weather and spring growth. The maidens from the AI program have started, and so far, despite planning, we have had two sheep graziers alerts, with howling winds and sleet. I believe the snow on the Tinderrys was very pretty, but our perspective was coloured with a vision of tiny lambs suffering. The young ewes are coping ok, but we have lost a few lambs. Fox predation is an ongoing problem,