whotheheckami: (Lamb)
whotheheckami ([personal profile] whotheheckami) wrote2006-02-06 07:04 pm

First lamb of 2006!


Sorry about the quality - I took it on my phone in a dark barn

First Lamb First Lamb

The first lamb. A pure-bred Dartmoor lamb.
Born on Sunday to one of our best young ewes. Mother and Lamb are doing well :@)


[identity profile] sneerpout.livejournal.com 2006-02-06 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I said: "Aaaaawwwww!"

Tom said: "Mmmmm PIE!"

[identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com 2006-02-06 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Awwww!
BTW, how are the rest of the piglets doing?

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/frag_/ 2006-02-06 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
awwww .... aren`t lambs ace?

[identity profile] adela-terrell.livejournal.com 2006-02-06 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
awwww

I name thee Mint Sauce!

[identity profile] adela-terrell.livejournal.com 2006-02-08 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Minty for short if its a she! Araminta from Moondial was my favourite childhood heroine.

[identity profile] nimstar.livejournal.com 2006-02-06 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
He is just too georgous :-)

Can he be my Lewis?!?

[identity profile] whotheheckami.livejournal.com 2006-02-08 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I may already have your Lewis

He's a 6-month old ram lamb who was born abnormally late in the season. Sadly, he has had to be isolated because he's too small to run with the other ram lambs who would but him to bits and too old to remain with his Mum and all the other ewes. He's in a stable on his own, but has other sick, lame and weary sheep alongide him. We haven't a clue what we'll do with him, but for now he's Lewis.

I'm going to have to photograph him now aren't I? ;@)

[identity profile] nimstar.livejournal.com 2006-02-09 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
Ohhhhhhhhhhh

*cries*

I WANT him!!!!!!! Reckon I have room for him in my one-bedroom central London flat???

*cries*

Can I "adopt" him and send you hay?? (or whatever he needs!)

[identity profile] whotheheckami.livejournal.com 2006-02-20 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
You may not need to send him hay!

I don't know if you saw the post where I mentioned sheep showering? Well Lewis went through the sheep shower along with all the other male lambs (tups) who are older thn him. They all got a thorough soaking which sufficed to wash all their smell off them and make them all pretty miserable. When we turned them back out into the field they were more concerned about finding food, drying out and keeping warm than fighting each other.

Lewis seems to have settled down very well and I check on him and his mates at least twice a day. He's certainly holding his own and has even been seen initiating some hot ram-on-ram action! You've befriended a gay sheep!

[identity profile] nimstar.livejournal.com 2006-02-20 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Well they certianly start young don't they, I blame the rural North Walian life meself....!!

Glad Lewis is doing well :-D

What bribes do I have to offer for a piccie of Lewis??? (preferably not doing the gay thing!)

[identity profile] whotheheckami.livejournal.com 2006-02-20 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll see what I can do. A *hug* will be fine :@)

[identity profile] nimstar.livejournal.com 2006-02-20 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Lesseeee....

*HUG*

Hmmmmmmm don't know how to make font big so shouting it in caps will have to do!!!!


(PS there were some fabulous typos in that just now before I checked it! Doh!)

[identity profile] frandowdsofa.livejournal.com 2006-02-06 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Far too young for rosemary and garlic - grilled crusty on the outside and pink inside with flatbreads and cucumber salad dressed with mint and yoghourt.

[identity profile] abigail-42.livejournal.com 2006-02-07 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
So when are they allowed out to frolick and gambol in the fields?

[identity profile] whotheheckami.livejournal.com 2006-02-07 08:11 am (UTC)(link)
Well one of the two lambs born over the weekend was born in the fields and will stay there unless the weather takes a really nasty turn. Mint Sauce will stay in unitl the 20 or so other ewes have lambed and then they will go out.

[identity profile] arachne.livejournal.com 2006-02-07 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I think they have to be 18 before they're allowed to gambol.

[identity profile] abigail-42.livejournal.com 2006-02-07 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
And presumably no frolicking before 16 either!

[identity profile] whotheheckami.livejournal.com 2006-02-08 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
*groan*

[identity profile] snowyfeline.livejournal.com 2006-02-07 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
that'll be a 'it goes baaaa... that is not my cow'
thing, then?
only i can't see the picture and im going home in roughly an hour.
x

[identity profile] whotheheckami.livejournal.com 2006-02-07 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
That will be me trying to get you a better picture then ;@)

[identity profile] snowyfeline.livejournal.com 2006-02-07 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
~smiles~
i can now transport them via memory stick and play with them on my programs at home... *bounce*
so any pictures emailed i can play with from the comfort of my mattress...