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Life on the Farm:  Spring, Lambs & Bottle Lambs

3/21/2016

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The first spring flowers are starting to bloom and every time I turn around it seems like another lamb is being born. 

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There's Ivy with her big ewe lamb.

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And Jasmine with her little boy.

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Honey, my Tunis-Leicester cross with her ewe lamb.  And Kiri, with her big girl.




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Here's Kristie with her lambs - 2 of of the 3 are now completely on the bottle.  Oh, the fun and aggravation of bottle lambs!
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The lambs are so sweet and love to be petted.  They are also incredibly cute but cause Kristie distress because they follow us instead of her.  They twine around our feet every time we go in the pasture, making walking very difficult.  And then there's the making of formula, warming bottles, washing bottles - oh, the fun of bottle babies.  I really am so glad that spring is here!

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Life on the Farm:  Here Come the Lambs!

3/14/2016

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Kristie was the first with lambs this year: triplets!  She had 2 ram lambs and a little ewe lamb last Tuesday morning.  They are all doing fine now despite being what I call "slow starters" - it took them awhile to learn how to nurse given Kristie's cow-like udder and teats.  The little girl never got the hang of it so is now a bottle lamb.  One of the boys will nurse but needs supplemented with a bottle too.  They stick close to mama but already run to me for milk when I walk in their stall.

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Life on the Farm:  Waiting for Lambs

3/2/2016

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Even though I'd rather sleep in (or go to bed early,) I find I really don't mind the early morning  and late night checks on the pregnant ewes.  The ewes are usually lying in their shelter, chewing their cud.  Things are quiet;  lambs will start arriving any day now.                                                                                    Kristie and Jasmine are looking pretty big; they'll have at least twins, possibly triplets.

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    Mary Longhill

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