Sheep Ranch Near Denhoff Gets a Big Surprise

It's a busy time of the year for many farmers and ranchers as cattle and sheep begin calving and lambing, but one set of newborns near Denhoff came as a big surprise to the owners. On Monday, Lisa Dockter discovered something she didn't think was possible. "I stood for a minute and boy my wheels were turning,: she says. She came out to check on her ewe and saw not 1, or 2, or even 3 little lambs.. but 5. A 1 in a million chance. "I, myself, had never heard of it," she says. And with over 20 years of experience, Lisa has seen it all, or so she thought. "It is kind of amazing you know, but for them all to be alive and up, that in itself is a miracle." The quintuplets are all happy and healthy, but they are small, about half the size of a normal newborn. So Lisa and her grandson bottle feed the littlest lambs, and even with 5 to look after, mom knows when one is gone. "When they're about to lamb and after they have lambed and things like this when you take one away [ewe makes noise] just like that they make that noise and you can be 50 feet away and hear that noise," Lisa says.  She will soon be hearing it a lot more often, because this is just the first set of lambs...more