'All in the family'

Ron Dunmyer helps Julia Barnett, 5, feed Archie, a 2-week-old lamb, at the Dunmyer residence in Lemoyne. (Photos: Enoch Wu/Sentinel-Tribune)

LEMOYNE — Farm life can often take some twists and turns. It is more than a bit unusual as two little lambs became “All in the Family” for Ron and Linda Dunmyer.
On the morning of March 8, Ron Dunmyer was tending his flock of sheep and found one of his ewes, a 2-year-old, had given birth to twins. However, this ewe instead of caring for her lambs, was rejecting them.
“Luckily I was there,” Ron said.
Linda explained sometimes a ewe will literally throw their babies, stomp on them and eventually kill the young lambs.
The Dunmyers quickly removed the lambs from their mother and in short order made the decision to bring them into their home.
They are not penned up nor caged inside the home.
“Most of the time, they just roam the house,” she says. “They have flourished in the house and they would not have in the barn.”