Free Lambing Record Template: Printable PDF & Excel

Keep ewe IDs, individual lambs, birth outcomes, assistance, fostering, losses, and weaning in one place. Download the blank sheets and use them in the barn or in a spreadsheet. Free. No email required.

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The PDF and workbook use the same meanings. Secondary CSV files: births, rearing changes, losses, and weaning.

A ewe with three young lambs in a straw-bedded pen. — A ewe and three young lambs in a pen on the family’s operation.

What one row means

Each birth row is one lamb. The birth ewe stays the birth ewe even when the lamb is fostered. Record litter size as reference information in the birth event or season summary; never add a repeated litter size from each lamb row. Count lamb rows when checking totals.

Give every lamb a birth outcome: Alive, Born dead, or Unknown. If a lamb is found dead and nobody saw the birth, record the finding in the loss log and leave the birth date and birth outcome unknown.

Use the rearing-change log for foster dams, bottles, or later transfers. Use the weaning log for one lamb at a time, with its birth ewe, date, status, measured weight, and unit.

Completed examples

These are fictional examples showing how the linked logs work.

Birth date	Birth ewe	Lamb ID	Birth outcome	Rearing	Notes
2026-02-02	83	83-A	Alive	Ewe 83	Twin; birth observed
2026-02-02	83	83-B	Alive	Ewe 91 from 2026-02-02	Twin; fostered after birth
Unknown	97	97-A	Unknown	Not applicable	Found dead; birth not observed

The rearing log repeats the birth ewe for 83-B and records the change date and foster ewe. The loss log records 97-A’s date found, observations, and Unknown cause. Finding a dead lamb does not establish its status at birth.

Temporary IDs are fine. Write the temporary ID on the birth row, then add the permanent tag beside it when it is applied. Keep both references so later weights and weaning records can be found.

Record what you observed

Write “no assistance observed” or “assisted by Sam at 02:10.” Record a measured weight with its unit and time. Write what you found and when; leave the cause unknown unless it has been established by a responsible source.

Keep the sheet. Make the next note easier.

“Ewe 83 lambed twins at 6:30 this morning. Both alive. Helped the first.”

Ranch.Bot can prepare a dated generic note linked to ewe 83 or a group for you to review before saving. Later, find that saved history instead of searching through loose sheets. It does not currently provide automated fostering management, lambs-per-ewe calculations, or sheep-specific reproduction reports.

See sheep record keeping in Ranch.Bot

Ranch.Bot is built and tested on a working commercial sheep operation. The template is designed around a simple distinction: when a lamb is fostered, we still need to know where it was born and who raised it.