Well............... we brought one of twin girls into the kitchen Saturday night which had managed to tuck itself right in the corner away from her heatlamp and was severely hypothermic.

Plan is always to get them warmed up, on their feet, feeding and back to mum asap...... but goodness knows if that is ever gonna happen seeing as she is gettng more and more covered in the smell of dog!
To be honest we didn't hold out much hope she would make it through the night but the Collie dog has been working her magic


Crackers standing vigil...... though at this point we weren't sure her intentions were completely honourable


Okay I give up.... you can have an old coat to sleep on.


What are you doing to my baby Dad?


Helping......... honest!!!!


Ok............... All clean Cracker.


No Really.......... all clean Cracker.


Erm............. Not quite sure about sharing my bed with the very odd looking puppy now it has come to life.


Yes........... That ends all clean too Cracker.


Ok I Officially Give up!!!
This baby is never gonna get back to it's momma anytime soon.


Night girls.

Well, THAT's a REAL AWWWWWWW moment!

........ Feel free to tell me how ugly the lamb is, is totally normal for the breed, they always look like the evil gremlins and believe it or not they actually grow up into pretty decent looking sheep lol.

Wonder if anyone can guess what she is?

I have absolutely NO idea what breed she might be (Jacobs possibly? What do I know! LOL), but she is GORGEOUS.

I SOO want one, or two, well actually ................

Think I'll have to get the hang of chickens first.

Brecknock Hill Cheviot? I've been looking, but it's not easy figuring out what the lambs might look like!

OMG . That is just too sweet for words . What are you going to do when wee lamby gets too big?

I would love a pet lamb. Don't think I'd lick it though .

That is too sweet for words!

Mrs C

That is the most wonderful set of photos I have seen! the smalls are asleep now but I will show them tomrrow,they will be thrilled!

What a lovely set of photos and a very tolerant sheepdog I might add! Sharing bed and board like that. Somewhere I have a photo or two of the pet lambs we bottle-reared when my kids were small. They shared the Whippet's bed sometimes, but he was good-hearted about it.

As for the sort of lamb. Ummm. Not Welsh Mountain as no brown blobs on the neck or bum. No idea - though I've just had great fun looking through the A-Z of sheep breeds. Not one I recognize from what's bred around here anyway (mainly Texel, Texel crosses, Suffolk xs, Beltex etc.) Um, I'll guess Ryedale though they're not meant to have any colour are they? . . .

Aw bless

Aaaawwwww

We once had to rush three kids inside after momma goat had them outdoors in -10C weather and they were frostbit by the time we found them. Quickly knocked together a pen about the size of a human baby's playpen. Touch and go for a bit but they all made it, didn't lose hooves, just things like the tips of ears.

Had some welcome help. A bunch of guys living in the house next door and when we had to be away for too many hours one of them would do the milk bottles. Said he didn't mind, growing up he'd have given anything if his baby brothers would have emptied their bottles that fast (that's after the first week when they were up and moving OK).

Bless.

I had a terrier cross that mothered any kittens it came across, and that was before she had any of her own.

when i was a kid we had a rayburn and the nearby farmer would bring round struggling lambs and put them in the warming oven in the bottom (with the door open of course) many mornings i would come down and have a new mouth to feed.No rayburn now but next door sometimes put an orphan or two in our croft so they are nearer the house so i still get to feed them -I never got to own one though -

Been a while since I walked through a field of sheep and had the bottle fed ones run over and butt me on the knees.

I've kept guinea fowl chicks in the warming drawer of an electric oven, so I have. They have enormous nests with over 20 eggs in, and the above dog was rather too terrier for their safety so when she found the nest I'd rescue some and bung them in there till the fella came who looked after them. They were The President's Birds out there, a bit like Swans here belong to Her Madge, and were wild.

Tastes nice, GF does. Amazing what you'd find on your BBQ, some Sunday's.

Often have lambs in my kitchen and occaisionally in bottom oven of Rayburn WITH the door open They go outside once they are mobile enough to start peeing everywhere!

Breed....mmmm .....is it a charolais x? They are often ugly and wrinkly when small

Not sure but that was the closest...... she is a southdown and although a tad smaller than usual is now catching up fast.

She is out with the other sheep now Pod, though the Collie Dog misses her.
We will probably end up keeping her as she is a southdown and we are intending increasing numbers of these in our somewhat mixed bag flock.......... I don't tend to make a habit of doing this with the weaker lambs but in these circumstances I have no problem........ temperatures were bitterly cold and the ewe was a first time mum who lambed a bit early and took a little while coming into milk and mothering up. She is milky now and looking after the other lamb well so I'm guessing she just took a while working out what to do.

The lamb is certainly vigorous now and gaining well so all being well, potentially she will stay.



I have some good news regarding Cas: she won first in our internal obedience competition at dog club
..................... was only a Novice test but she is only just over 12 months and up against dogs much older and more experienced than her.

Aw thats great news, brilliant when she is so young