Raising Shiloh & Lilo

29/06/2022

It's been a while since I last posted on here!
The other day Fred the shearer came to take all our woolly coats off. I wasn't happy about it at first but now I feel so much better and cooler. Dolly was lucky because she self-shed this year so she didn't need doing! Here's some pics of us before Fred came and after.... 🐑🐏

Love Lilo Smol 💕

27/12/2021

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas! Here's some pics of me with my brothers and sisters. For Christmas we got a yummy lick tub!🎄❤️🐏🐑

Lilo Smol x

17/11/2021

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17/11/2021

Just some pics of me and my brothers and sisters. ❤️

Lilo Smol x

07/07/2021

I do love annoying the dogs! 🐑💕

15/06/2021

Me and my sisters 💖

14/06/2021

This is my new baby sister Nova, look how tiny she is next to me in the first photo! I look very serious because I still find Nova a bit scary, it takes me a while to adjust to new things. I still find the man scary when he's not got my bottle! Mummy is the only thing that I don't ever find scary and she loves that. She calls me her baby smol. 🥰

Nova took a while to accept her milk bottle as she was used to feeding from her sheep mummy who passed away. She's getting there though as mummy has been super patient with her (apparently the only time she is ever patient is with us sheep!). I also saw mummy spray Nova's tail with purple as it had been banded when she was first born which means the bottom part is now dead and will soon drop off. Farmers do it to help with flystrike and my brothers all had their tails docked at a couple days old but Dolly and me have full tails. I'm not sure why Dolly has but mummy asked the farmer to keep mine which is why it's still long and bushy!

Mummy also put some spot on stuff along Nova's back as that helps keep flies away. She already did mine, Dolly's and Otto's recently so just the other boys left to do! And she has been giving Nova pen & strep antibiotic injections everyday to help her legs just like she did for my sister Shiloh and me, which seems to be working. I occasionally hold my front leg up now and again but mummy and the man suspect is due to having joint ill when I was teeny weeny. Mummy is keeping an eye on it though in case it starts to get worse or causes me pain. If it does then I'll need another course of injections and loxicom so I hope not! 🤞

Anyway, must go and sunbathe for an hour and then shout for mummy with my brother Niko once it gets past 10am. We have her wrapped around our little hooves!

Lilo smol xx

24/05/2021

My big brothers!
Otto, Niko, Theo, Dexter, Bambi and Eko 💙

30/04/2021

Me and my sister Dolly 🥰

Dolly is only 3 weeks younger than me and sadly she lost her brother the day mummy went to collect her. He had an accident and Dolly missed him so much, she kept calling for him. So mummy gave her a home because she said she's close in age to me and I would benefit from having another lamb to help me move outside with our big brothers! Mummy wanted me to live in the house forever but the man said it's not a good idea because the "sprinkles and puddles" I leave are getting bigger by the day! 🙊

I was very scared of Dolly at first and hid behind mummy's legs. Now we're the best of friends and Dolly follows me everywhere! I'm not clingy so I do my own thing but if Dolly can't find me she shouts like my big brothers do. She loves mummy too and we do everything together now, even the man says she is adorable!

We have our own annexe next to the house now and can go in the caravan whenever we want. Mummy sometimes naps in there with us. 😴
She doesn't want me to grow up, she keeps telling me never to change, whatever that means! She also says my name is Lilo but she only ever calls me that if I'm ignoring her, otherwise I'm Smol. 🥰

26/04/2021

I'm 10 weeks old and already down to just 2 milk feeds a day! My brothers didn't move down to 2 feeds until they were much older so mummy is super proud of me. I love my creep (lamb pellets) and hay but I also love munching on the grass when the sun is shining. My brothers didn't start eating solid food for ages and Eko, my biggest brother, wouldn't touch grass or hay until he was around a year old! 🙈 Mummy says he didn't realise he was a sheep because he was brought up in the house with the dogs and cats.

Obviously I'm not a sheep, I'm a princess. Which means I can follow mummy everywhere, do whatever I like and get away with absolutely anything. I'm such a clever girl too and I'm never noisy or annoying 😇

My big brother Arlo had to leave us to join my big sister Shiloh which made mummy sad. He was always the kindest sheep and I did love staring at him when he was sleeping because he had the funniest baaa. He was very independent but loving just like me, I hope I look as beautiful as Fuzz when I'm grown up. Mummy and the man always say how handsome he is.

Anyway, I must go, I have a new sister who I'm currently terrified of but she seems to love me and keeps following me despite trying to get away from her! It's exhausting work being this cute and mature.

29/03/2021

I love riding on the mower with mummy just like Shiloh used to! ❤️🚜

29/03/2021

"Mum, these tiny things are still not as cute as me!"

08/03/2021

Today has been exhausting and scary. Mummy and daddy said they thought I wasn't going to make it as I have been suffering with bloat on and off the past week but today I got really bad and couldn't stand properly. Mummy tried everything under the sun to try and release some gas from my belly and eventually managed to by using a method she was reluctant to use but was very pleased she did!

One of our favourite farm vets came out too and gave me a full check up. He said that what mummy did was the right thing as I probably wouldn't be here otherwise. Daddy also helped lots which mummy is pleased about as he kept a super close eye on me. Hopefully my tummy will get better now but the vet gave mummy another injection to give me in case I need it tomorrow but hopefully I won't. 🤞

I'm very hungry but I can't have lots of milk in one go because it will make me a balloon all over again so I've got to have "little and often" which I'm really not pleased about one bit! I'm sooo tired as it's been such a long day so I think I'll have a snooze now that mummy has stopped cuddling/annoying me. 😴❤️

01/03/2021

I've been super busy lately! I did have joint ill in my knees like my sister Shiloh so mummy had to jab me with a needle everyday for a week and add some medicine to my milk too. Now I'm as sprightly as ever and don't sit still! I spend most of my day following mummy around now and can keep up really well. This month is birthday month because it's been Otto's and Niko's birthdays already and it's my daddy's birthday today and my brother Theo's birthday this Sunday!

I have taken a liking to cat and dog biscuits which mummy says I shouldn't have as they will make me poorly. She keeps putting my lamb feed in front of me instead but cat biscuits are so much tastier! Mummy says that Shiloh was exactly the same and used to try eating the dog and cat biscuits instead of her own food. We are very similar 🥰

Anyway, I must dash and have a few more tinkles all over the floor - need to keep mummy busy!

Oh and happy birthday to the man who keeps calling himself daddy! 🎉

Lilo x 🐑

21/02/2021

Today I ate some big girl feed (mummy says it's called lamb creep) for the first time! 😍

19/02/2021

My name is Lilo and I'm an 8 day old orphan ewe lamb (3/4 Rouge 1/4 Texel) just like my sister Shiloh. I have lived with my new mummy since I was 2 days old (exactly 1 week tomorrow) which means she hasn't slept in her own bed or had a full nights sleep for this long too! 😆😴

Mummy loves me sooo much, she's struggled since losing my beautiful sister Shiloh and is hoping that I will help ease the pain a little, although no one could ever replace her of course. Shiloh is one of a kind, just like me and our big brothers but mummy says that she senses Shiloh in me and sometimes accidentally calls me by her name. I'm flattered because I know how special she is to mummy and I know that she loves me just as much. 🥰

I am still super tiny for my age, the tiniest lamb mummy has ever seen apparently! I'm a little weak on my front legs just like Shiloh which mummy is worrying about but she's doing everything she can to strengthen my muscles despite wanting to wrap me in cotton wool 24/7. Daddy says she has to let me walk sometimes but I don't like walking, I prefer to be carried everywhere and get cold easily, so mummy normally gives in and scoops me. 😇💖

08/10/2020

07/09/2020

My tiny little Princess, I could write a whole book about you and how perfect you are. You have taken my whole heart with you to heaven and I'm completely broken. I can't believe you fought all this time and then got taken from me so suddenly and unexpectedly. To say that I miss you is an understatement, I'm lost without my tiny little adorable shadow calling out for me, snuggling me and following me everywhere. Your cute demanding, sassy little personality made me smile more than I think I ever have and I feel so blessed to have met you and to have been able to call you my daughter. You would have followed me to the end of the world and back and I would have done anything for you my little angel. If I could have one wish I would trade everything I have just to have you back with me. You were my reason, my light at the end of the tunnel, my little ray of sunshine.

Some people call me crazy for falling in love with a lamb and giving you a voice but those people don't understand what it's like to love someone regardless of their species. Love has no limits. You're not just a lamb, you're not just a number on an ear tag, you're my daughter and you made my world so much brighter and happier. I'm just pleased you weren't loaded onto a lorry, squashed, filthy and scared and then killed, just so that selfish people can buy your tiny precious body off the supermarket shelf for their Sunday roast. You were and still are loved more than you could ever possibly imagine. You mean the world to me and I'm so proud of how far you came. I gave you a voice because that's what you deserve. You're the best little thing in the whole world and I miss you more than I could even begin to describe.

I know my babies in heaven will take care of you until we meet again my darling. It's your big brother Shadow's birthday today so wish him a happy birthday from mummy. I love you so much my perfect little princess. 💖🐑 ###############xx

05/09/2020

So, because I quite like the taste of dog biscuits and mummy keeps saying I can't have them, she has given me my own little tub of skinny chips (hay) to munch on instead! The man who calls himself "daddy" said that me and mummy looked funny earlier because she was sat eating "human chips" and I was sat next to her munching away on my skinny chips! 🍟

I also met lots and lots of people today and followed mummy around like her little shadow the entire time! I kept up too! She says she's so so so so so proud of me and tells me a thousand times a day how much she loves me. I'm her little princess 😇🐑

03/09/2020

Mummy says I've been a bit of a diva lately. I like to shout when I don't get my own way (quite rightly so!) and I'll shout the second mummy is out of sight, because she shouldn't keep wondering off without my permission. Today she tried mowing but I insisted on helping so she had no choice but to let me go for a ride too! I also keep eating dog biscuits which mummy says is very very bad for me so she now has to take them up whenever the dogs aren't eating, to stop me getting to them! I'm not happy about this because I like them, they're yummy! But mummy is a spoilsport. I must say I'm feeling a bit icky tonight, I have a dodgy belly and my nappy's are pretty stinky! Mummy says it's because I've been eating things I shouldn't but I don't see how eating paper and dog biscuits designed for dogs, not sheep, would make me have a poorly tum?! Think mummy being silly. 🐑

31/08/2020

Me and my best friend Luna 💖 She was born with just one eye so she's extra special just like me 🥰

31/08/2020

Luna is my one eyed sister. She's only a baby too and was born with just one eye. We're the bestest of friends and I love licking her ears! 😄😍🥰🐑🐈

30/08/2020

I made mummy SO proud today because I RAN after her!!! 😍😍 I didn't just walk, I RAN! Mummy couldn't believe it. I guess my new medication is working! 🤞🐑💖

27/08/2020

Today mummy took me to see farm vet Greg as my legs aren't getting much better. He's worried about the long term damage to my joints as it's highly likely I will have arthritis and need to be on medication for life. He asked mummy if she wanted to keep me or let me go (the cheek!) and thankfully mummy said she can't give up on me because I'm her baby and I want to live 🥰 (too right)!

So now mummy has to inject me with a super powerful antibiotic (much stronger than the last lot) every day for as long as she needs to, maybe a month or more. She also has some pain relief to give me every other day but this can be added to my yummy milk. Greg gave me two ouchy injections today and made me bleed both times! He told mummy he felt bad because mummy never made me bleed once when she injected me all those times. She wonders if it's because I'm calmer when it's just me and her. I'm such a brave girl, I hardly flinch when mummy gives me ouchy antibiotics. 💉

Mummy also squealed like a weirdo when vet Greg and the nurse brought me back out to the car because I shouted "muuuuuum" as soon as I saw her in the distance! I can recognise my mummy from a mile away, she never knew this! I gave her lots of kisses when she scooped me because I think she missed me when I was gone for 10 minutes. I don't blame her, I am a babe! 🥰

25/08/2020

Shiloh meeting some of her big brothers - Otto, Theo, Niko and Arlo... ❤️🐑
Once she's a little bigger she can meet my big boys - Eko, Dexter and Bambi! 🐏

21/08/2020

For the first time ever Shiloh managed fo follow me a little today! 😃 I'm so proud of her. ❤️ She was wobbly but she did it!! 😍🐑 (Her little tail wag at the end when she reaches me is just too adorable 😍🥰)

20/08/2020

Day 5 on antibiotics (halfway through the course) and this little lady seems to be standing better but holding her front right leg up more. I'm worried the antibiotics aren't helping but once she's finished the course we'll know more. I'm so worried that this has caused long term damage in her legs and the vet will suggest euthanasia. 😞 I can't give up on her. She's such a fighter and she wants to live! My German Shepherd Elsa had a doggy wheelchair as she had CDRM so as long as Shiloh isn't in any pain, I think this might be something to consider for her too. 💖🐑