Just a Couple Baby Pics
Not much going on here yet. We are on daily lamb watch, will go on the night watch in about 4-5 days.
Lambing continues at Clyde and Amber’s and for most part going good. They had a “springer” (a lamb born last spring) that had twins. She started off real good and was nursing both of them. Then for some reason, she booted one of them out. She refused to let it nurse and head butted it away when it came up to her.
Clyde’s 8 yr old grand daughter is living with them, so they gave her something to do. They took the little guy in the house, warmed him up and their Grand daughter started bottle feeding him. He is doing great.
Baby with adorable face markings
Mom and sister of the one above
The abandoned baby, it's mother and brother
Abandoned baby with the horse
The horse, Patches, is in the pen right next to the sheep pen. She was so attentive when the babies started being born. It seems she sensed something was not just right with this one. Yesterday I took this baby over to the gate for Patches to investigate. She was so soft and gentle while sniffing the baby.
As I was leaving, Patches started going crazy. She ran around the pen, bucked, whinnied, pawed at the fence and looked like she was contemplating jumping the fence. She watched the baby walking behind me and continued to carry on.
After we got back to the “staging” area, she never took her eyes off the baby. To watch interaction of other animals when babies are born is very interesting. We witnessed that when our calf was born. The cow pen had the attention of all the sheep and all 3 of our horses. The chickens even got louder than normal.
Catch u’all tomorrow
Cindy
