{"id":1017780,"date":"2022-03-11T02:25:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T02:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/11\/canadian-sheep-farm-welcomes-two-sets-of-sextuplets-in-one-week\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T02:25:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T02:25:45","slug":"canadian-sheep-farm-welcomes-two-sets-of-sextuplets-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/11\/canadian-sheep-farm-welcomes-two-sets-of-sextuplets-in-one-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian sheep farm welcomes two sets of sextuplets in one week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Canadian-sheep-farm-welcomes-two-sets-of-sextuplets-in-one-week.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.zype.com\/embed\/6229534257cb660001010a9b.html?api_key=wPVS5IQoMHNsQvfrGuKJ9spKSKCXxsjs0Bf1UVshCI5sUtrj&amp;autoplay=false\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 10 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> The owners of a British Columbia, Canada, farm said they were shocked when two ewes at the facility gave birth to sextuplets within just a few days.<\/p>\n<p>Lorraine and John Buchanan, owners of Parry Bay Sheep Farm in Metchosin, on Vancouver Island, said their sheep typically give birth to 2-4 lambs at one time, so they were surprised on Friday when one of their flock delivered what they initially thought were quintuplets.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thought, &#8216;Oh, she&#8217;s having quints, that&#8217;s pretty good,'&#8221; Lorraine Buchanan told CBC News. &#8220;We went out to the fields to check our other sheep and came back and she had a sixth one. We were surprised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The couple said they were even more surprised three days later, when a second ewe gave birth to six lambs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To have them close together in a week, we&#8217;re kind of shocked,&#8221; Buchanan told CHEK News.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 10 (UPI) &#8212; The owners of a British Columbia, Canada, farm said they were shocked when two ewes at the facility gave birth to sextuplets within just a few days. Lorraine and John Buchanan, owners of Parry Bay Sheep Farm in Metchosin, on Vancouver Island, said their sheep typically give birth to 2-4 lambs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1017781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}