What a day this has been … a happy and a sad day. We had more lambs born today just before a storm hit our block. The mother “#9 Nickel had twins born outside in the shelter belt, she obviously cleaned them and gave them a feed, but when the storm hit she must have taken off for the barn with only one of her babies.
An hour later I went out to check on them all because I heard a lamb bleating; only to find the lamb lying next to a sheep, not Nickel it was Sugar the wether but he must have died in the storm. Oh… so sad… we tried all we could to save him. Anyway I picked up the lamb and took her to her mum, but because the lamb smelt probably of Sugar, Nickel rejected the lamb (head butting it when it tried to feed). So now we have to bottle feed the wee one, AND it’s a girl, and at this point I think the only girl out of the lot!
Oh such a shame but we will try to keep her going, she is in our house garage with straw, her mother’s wool shorn last month and a hot water bottle. She’s had a feed of milk from a bottle and is sleeping at present. It’s going to be a long……night as she will need feeding every 4 hours.
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