Three bottles of warm milk are ready for our hungry cade lambs.
Leonie carries the bottles, her steps quickening as she heads toward the poly tunnel.
One of Lucy's ewe lambs stands waiting, hunger shining in her eyes.
Leonie is intent on making sure every lamb leaves with a belly full of milk by the time she is done.
Once a cade lamb, Stumpy the ewe still hurries to the bottle, only to be turned away time and again.
The key is to satisfy the hunger until it fades away. Pushing some lambs aside so others can eat misses the point; arriving with plenty enough milk for every lamb works.
Picture the ewes and lambs nestled together on one side of the tunnel, creating a gentle, living tapestry.
We have one full cade lamb (no mother) and three half cade lambs (still with their mothers); one of the three half cade lambs has a poorly eye.
The lambs that grew up naturally are eagerly nibbling at their first solid foods.
The key to caring for cades during lambing is to keep them safe and encourage them to eat heartily.
Sam is caked in mud, darting circles around us with wild glee, always choosing the busiest moments to stir up chaos.