While dogs and cats are known to have large litters, sheep not so much. So when Ashley Rice returned to Prohibition Vineyards in Saanich to find five lambs with her ewe Abagail, she was shocked.
Rice had just finished picking up her children from school and running errands when she decided to check on Abagail in the pasture, knowing she was pregnant and about to be giving birth soon.
“We knew Abagail was our last sheep. We were waiting for her to have her babies, everyone else had their babies like a month ago,” said Rice.
LISTEN | Saanich sheep delivers quintuplets:Ashley Rice from Saanich’s Prohibition Vineyard talks about her surprise to find that one of her ewes delivered quintuplet lambs.
After driving to the pasture, her son Jackon said, “look, three lambs!”
Her daughter Scarlett followed up with, “look, four lambs!”
When Rice went in for a head count, she said she was astonished to find five lambs. At first, the kids didn’t …