We are not usually given to cute animal stories - but this one did attract our attention. In what must be some kind of a record, a ewe gave birth to six lambs in a State-owned SOGETA farm at Ain Dick, 20 km from Rabat. The first reports surfaced on on Tuesday in the daily Le Matin du Sahara et du Maghreb.
The six-year old ewe had a normal pregnancy and had not been given any hormonal treatment.
The lambs included two males and four females. However, one lamb was still-born and the fifth died five days after birth. We are happy to report that the four others are faring well.
The fecund mama sheep is of "DS" race, a synthetic race created in the late nineties from genes of the "D' man" and Sardi races. We couldn't help wondering if this makes it a SarDine?
Researcher Ismaïl Boujenane, teacher at the Rabat-based Hassan II Agronomy and Veterinary Institute, had the idea of combining the two races genes. Boujenane won in 2005 the Grand Prix Hassan II for invention and research in agriculture.
The lambs are very similar with a white hide and a black snout. Cute, huh?
Tags: Morocco Fes, Maghreb sheep!
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