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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Bionic on March 19, 2013, 03:03:18 pm
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Meet Taffy. He was born at 2.10am this morning. Mum lambed quickly and has been looking after him well.
He suckled soon after he got to his feet but we were a bit concerned for him about an hour after he was born so put the heat lamp on him and gave him a dose of Kick-Start.
This pic was taken at lunch time today.
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Congratulations! :thumbsup:
He looks a very nice lamb, too. :thumbsup:
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fantastic, lovely looking lamb :excited: :excited:
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Hurrah!! Congratulations! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :trophy:
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Well done Bionic and husband on the birth of your little wooly. Like the name too - any reason for it? :thumbsup:
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Well done to all concerned :thumbsup: Great feeling, eh!
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:thumbsup: Well done you, don't get too attached now will you
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Congratulations :excited: . You will always remember that first one :relief: .
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Lovely little lambie :)
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Well done Bionic and husband on the birth of your little wooly. Like the name too - any reason for it? :thumbsup:
Well the year letter is T and we are in Wales so I thought a Welsh name was appropriate. Taffy means David apparently.
So his pedigree name would be Esgair Gwyn Taffy
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sounds posh in the long version :D
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congrats, strong looking lamb it always a very exciting time even when you have many years under your belt. I have a shetland named taffy he,s been with me for a few years now.
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Yeay - well done Bionic. I expect you're spending every minute out there gazing at him now :thumbsup: :thumbsup: .
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"Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief;
Taffy came to my house and stole a side of beef
I went to Taffy's house, Taffy wasn't in;
I jumped upon his Sunday hat and poked it with a pin" :thinking:
I'm Welsh (mostly) and when we moved from Wales to Shrewsbury, my new step-dad used to recite this frequently. Dafydd is actually the Welsh form of David, but the river through Cardiff (I think - could be Swansea?) is called the Taff. Perhaps the two were combined to make the character's name in the rhyme? Taffy is also the American word for toffee ;)
He's a lovely looking little lamb, well done you! :thumbsup:
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Smee, I hope my Taffy isn't going to be a theif although he has already stolen my heart ;D
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awww :love: congratulations the funny thing is no matter how many you have you still get that buzz about little lambs :excited:
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Dafydd is actually the Welsh form of David,
Is it?! Learn something every day eh? I heard the name and liked it so much it's why I named my Muscovy drake Dafydd the wonder duck (although the wonder duck part came later!)
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Not to be confused with 'dafad' - which is the Welsh word for sheep ;D :sheep: :sheep:
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Congratulations!!!! :excited:
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oh congratulations, what a cutie :love:
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He is very cute Sally, congratulations. glad this one went well :love: :sheep:
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I missed this yesterday ...... congratulations ...... will be up to visit :wave:
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"Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief;
Taffy came to my house and stole a side of beef
I went to Taffy's house, Taffy wasn't in;
I jumped upon his Sunday hat and poked it with a pin" :thinking:
I'm Welsh (mostly) and when we moved from Wales to Shrewsbury, my new step-dad used to recite this frequently. Dafydd is actually the Welsh form of David, but the river through Cardiff (I think - could be Swansea?) is called the Taff. Perhaps the two were combined to make the character's name in the rhyme? Taffy is also the American word for toffee ;)
He's a lovely looking little lamb, well done you! :thumbsup:
The Taff is the river that ends up in cardiff. Never call someone from Swansea a Taffy (they are a Tawe if anything), they won't thank you for it!
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Linda,
drop by any time
Sally
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What a handsome lamb - you must be feeling pretty good now :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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He looks like a very good lamb, perhaps you could enter him in some lamb ram classes this year and see how he shapes up.
Could be a keeper.....?
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I should hope so. Sally purchased her ewes from me and used my unrelated rams, so there should be some good ones. ;D
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Buffy, I wouldn't know where to start with a show but I guess its always a possibility.
As Karen has said I got my ewes from her and used her rams too. She has some good stock so there is the chance he might be a winner. Let him grow up a bit before we put the medal round his neck :roflanim: .
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He's lovely Sally. It's true that feeling comes back everytime it's lambing time. I'm getting so excited about ours kicking off I can't tell you :excited:
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He's lovely :sheep: :sunshine: . I'm getting envious with all these lambs born. We still have 10 days to go and :fc: the worst of the weather is gone by then.
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That's excellent news - congratulations! He looks a real cutie :love: