🩵🩷 LAMB SPAM 🩷🩵
Tess is getting used to the bottle routine now, but is still nervous of quick movements and strange noises. I’m sure it won’t take her long to be as chilled as Snickers, who has now mastered the art of running on a tiled floor. Hopefully, they can go outside for a little play today. 🩵🩷
Gosh! It is wicked here today! You know it’s windy when the Floofs are having their fleece parted, and the wind blew the claw clip out of my hair. And now it’s raining as well. Hope the remaining girls keep their legs crossed tonight! No wonder there’s a Sheep Grazier’s Warning! 😬😕
Aargh! We thought we had missed it but we hadn’t and there is more coming. Good luck everyone who is lambing. 🤞🙏⚡️⛈️
Dottie was just as happy and at ease to welcome Baby number two. 🩵🩷
I thought twins may have freaked her out a bit, but not at all. It seems she’s a natural Mum. 🥰
Thank you everyone, for your love and support for Dottie over the past few days. It has been a worrying time and it was so lovely to see her lamb healthy babies yesterday and to give her another opportunity to be the Mum she was meant to be.
I got home from work and Geoff said she was in the far corner of the night yard, which is not usually a place Dottie goes. I went out to see her and I was pretty certain she was in labour, as she a little agitated and making quiet little baaing noises and licking her lips.
She was looking for her spot, so we walked her to her pen and she started the usual nesting behaviour and was pretty soon in full on labour, all the while making the same sound she is making in the video.
The first lamb presented head and toes first, but upside down, which I have never seen before. She was in a very heavy sac which I don’t think Dottie would have removed in time as it broke at her rail end as she ventured into the world, but was still covering her face and was difficult to break through. I quickly removed the sac from her face and gave her to Dottie. It was so beautiful to see the bond between them.
The little boy followed quite quickly but again was helped into the world as he had one leg back. Dottie let me assist without hesitation. She was the perfect patient and as you can see is totally smitten by her babies. She talked to them the whole time and is still doing it, although not as much now. It was a beautiful moment, and I’m so glad I can share some of it with you. 🩷🩵
This is the first born little girl. 🩷
🩵🩷Incoming Lamb Spam🩷🩵
When the gates open and anyone can go anywhere….. 🩷🩵😂
Don’t hold your breath anyone, she’s going to keep us waiting until tonight I suspect. All the pre-lambing discomfort is there, but nothing physical happening at the rear end. She was making the strangest little sound this afternoon and if you listen carefully to the first few seconds you can just hear it. It had been going for a little while before I got the phone out. It’s like a teeny tiny horse whinny. 😂🤷♀️
If Callie won’t come to the mineral mix, the mineral mix goes to Callie! And she loves it. 😋🩷
Callie has to be in the mood for Twiggies, and today, all she wants is to close her eyes and enjoy some ear scratches. 🩷
“I’m tough. I take my Molasses straight, thanks, Shepherdess!”
“Yep. Me too”, says Honey. 😎😂🩷
Thank you everyone for the love and support over the last few days. It is much appreciated. 🩷
As always farm life has to go on as other little hearts are dependent on us.
I think Dottie was feeling a little sad this morning. I don’t know how much sheep understand, but she seems to watch more of what is going on than most, and this morning, during feed time, I caught her just staring at me. I went and picked her a couple of the last Delbard roses, but she didn’t want them. All she wanted was some scratches. Some reassurance after a difficult few days. A bit of therapy for both of us, I think. 🩷👑
HRH was being a little perverse this morning. Maybe the yucky, drizzly day, but she was a bit grumpy. 🙄
“Well, yes! If you force me to, I’ll eat your stupid Rose! Hmmm, I may even enjoy it!” 😂🩷👑
Every morning Dottie and Cal are in the yard waiting for breakfast, except today.🙄🙄😂
There is sound.
I managed to find a couple of very small Roses this morning and wondered how the Queen would react. The first was a David Austin, so I thought that would be okay but the second was a Rugosa and I haven’t tried her with those before. This pink variety does have a beautiful fragrance and apparently, it was delicious. Phew!! Keeping Her Royal Fussiness happy can be quite a task! 🙄😂👑🩷
“Here you go, Dottie, I’ve picked you some more Pinkie roses.”
“I don’t like Pinkie roses!”
“But you gobbled it down this morning.”
“Well, I don’t like them now! Take them away or I shall butt you into next week!”
And I’m afraid she would, hence why I’m on the other side of the fence. 🙄 Her Royal Haughtiness is in a mood today. 😬👑😂
Hey Dottie,
Would you like to try a “Pinkie” rose?
“Hmmm, yes, I think I like that one.”
“Great. I’ll go and pick a few more.”🩷
Sooooo…. Is Miss Muffin pregnant or not? A beep, beep, beep says No! A long screaming “Beeeeep” says Yes!
Sound on!!! 🤣🩷
The crunching noise just says she’s starving!! 😂
The old girl came to help me feed out this morning. It was a slow process, but we got there. Sheba is fifteen and a half now, so doing well for a Shepherd who was due to be shot before she was even twelve months old. She was bought to guard Greyhounds but was “not aggressive enough”. Sadly she learned the art of “chasing”, so we have had fourteen years of carefully handling that. She has had one run in with a Tiger snake that I found her throwing in the air like her toy rope, so she is always supervised outside on warmer days!I don’t want to face that again! 😳 Both she and the snake survived. 🙄 How much longer she has, we don’t know as her legs are not great now, but I’m sure she’ll let us know when the time has come. Until then she is enjoying just mooching around in her twilight farm years. 🩷😊
No Roses were wasted this morning, as Party Boy put his little hoof up and said, “Please may I have it?” So of course, I obliged. ❤️
I think Dottie has some competition in the Rose Demolition Stakes!! 😳😂❤️🌹
