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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: twizzel on April 28, 2014, 12:31:20 pm

Title: On a happier note- photo of my lambs enjoying the sun
Post by: twizzel on April 28, 2014, 12:31:20 pm
It seems to be a bit doom and gloom around here at the moment, it has definitely been at home- I lost one of my lambs a few weeks ago, and we've lost 2 calves in as many weeks :raining:

But on Friday I turfed all of my lambs out into the big wide world that is the field, and thought I'd share these photos of them this morning- they seem really contented :)  All tame lambs... now the hard work is done, just got to heptavac again in a couple of weeks and bring in to worm/flystrike throughout the course of the spring and summer :)

The first pic is some of the slightly older lambs, the 2nd is all 17 of them together :)

Title: Re: On a happier note- photo of my lambs enjoying the sun
Post by: SallyintNorth on April 28, 2014, 12:50:45 pm
Looking well, twizz!   :thumbsup:

Sorry to hear about the calves  :bouquet: - what happened there?
Title: Re: On a happier note- photo of my lambs enjoying the sun
Post by: twizzel on April 28, 2014, 12:55:01 pm
:D thanks :)

One had the most horrendous scour I've ever seen, we tried for 2 weeks to get her well but nothing worked so the hunt came for her (incidentally the day that my lamb snuffed it too- bad day!). The other was a heifer calving out in the field one evening last week, didn't get to it in time and it must have drowned during calving :-\ bloody great heifer calf too, typical :-[
Title: Re: On a happier note- photo of my lambs enjoying the sun
Post by: Cheviot on April 28, 2014, 01:06:02 pm
Hi,
Lovely pics, I have serious grass envy, ours is still yellow looking and short.
Regards
Sue
Title: Re: On a happier note- photo of my lambs enjoying the sun
Post by: ZaktheLad on April 28, 2014, 01:07:16 pm
They are looking great  :thumbsup: