This morning I released the cade lamb onto the paddock, initially she looked estranged then when she found her footing began leaping; I believe this is what we call playtime.
The weather is pleasant and mild, but if rain comes I'll bring her inside, she has to return to the farmhouse for bottle feeding anyhow. She hasn't been introduced to last years cades yet. Whilst walking about the paddock, I took some pictures of with my bridge camera.
A mother ewe and her lamb enjoying the sunshine upon the farmhouse paddock.Last years cade lamb, we named her Donna, after Donna Birrel.Herdwick ewe is in lamb, although she has no bag yet, her lamb/s will be half Herdwick, half Teeswater.This lamb was birthed from a Charollais tup and a Herdwick ewe.Pedigree Herdwick pictured previously is not this lambs mother.Cade ewe lamb enjoying fresh salad from higher areas of the paddock.
After such an interesting life, with meaningful correspondence fleeced as if I pre-existed, it's hard to release from longevity of despondent boredom with mundane hobbies.
Jackdaws surround the farmhouse, not long are they gone.
Sam the sheep dog, I let him out of his kennel to stretch his legs, trusted he enters the poly tunnel, invades a mother ewe lambing triples, and begins licking her lambs; how insane is this?
Charlie making sure the triplets get their colostrum, they can't walk yet, very small.
Charlie came and made sure the three lambs had chance to suckle their mother ewe, triples are hard to lamb, without their cleansing being licked clean by a sheep dog.
The weather is pleasant and mild, but if rain comes I'll bring her inside, she has to return to the farmhouse for bottle feeding anyhow. She hasn't been introduced to last years cades yet. Whilst walking about the paddock, I took some pictures of with my bridge camera.
After such an interesting life, with meaningful correspondence fleeced as if I pre-existed, it's hard to release from longevity of despondent boredom with mundane hobbies.
Sam the sheep dog, I let him out of his kennel to stretch his legs, trusted he enters the poly tunnel, invades a mother ewe lambing triples, and begins licking her lambs; how insane is this?
Charlie came and made sure the three lambs had chance to suckle their mother ewe, triples are hard to lamb, without their cleansing being licked clean by a sheep dog.
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