[colliewoman]

Born during the Grand National, May I present to you....
Neptune!

Little ewe lamb too
Her mother is a Shetland x Castlemilk Moorit and her daddy is a grey Katmoget Shetland
Second ewe is ready to go any minute

[jaykay]

Congratulations  She is a little sweetie 

[kanisha]

congratulations!

[in the hills]

  What a winner

[Brucklay]

Ah so great to see - this is what my wee shetland x castlemilk will grow up like - wee lamb is so sweet I do love little black lambs - she looks perfect

[Fleecewife]

She looks big and healthy, and a happy mum too     Lovely 

[Mammyshaz]

  very cute

[Rosemary]

 

[Herdygirl]

Lovely photo colliewoman

[colliewoman]

Paranoia setting in already though
Mum doesn't have very big teats/udder and I'm wondering if little one is getting milk.
From the fact the isn't hunched, isn't cold and is trying to bounce around already I think she must have had some, but i'll offer her a drop more in a bit anyway.
I figure her milk will come in big style now she has dropped the afterbirth and has settled down to eat

[colliewoman]

Oooops!

Forgot to add, thank you everyone

[Mammyshaz]

Try not to worry too much CW sit, observe & enjoy.
Some of us ave little boobies, others big boobies, so long as the milk flows the baby can take it's fill. As you say baby is looking content. 

[deepinthewoods]

yay!!

[jaykay]

Noooo - don't go feeding her. Let mum get on with it.

Size of udder or teats has nothing to do with amount of milk. Plenty of flat chested women successfully breast feed. She won't let you draw any milk. If the lamb is happy, she's getting what she needs, no reason on earth why there should be a problem.

Seriously I'd have concluded my first Shetland to lamb had no milk cos I couldn't draw any, wasnt feeding cos I never saw it happen, nor did I ever see the lamb poo. But the lamb was fine so clearly all those things were going on.

A hungry lamb is obvious. It cries lots, is obviously miserable and unsettled and is hunched up with an arched back and seriously concave (not the normal thinness of Shetland lambs) sides.

This lamb of yours looks fine, try to relax and let nature get on with raising lambs.

[colliewoman]

I've just used the lamblac I mixed on the dogs food!
They loved it.
Thankies all, common sense tells me she is fine, and would at least be shivering or hunched on a cold night if she hadn't had a belly full. OCD on the other hand tells me all sorts of other things
Fortunately I have a back up team this year (you lot) to run it past before I cock up
One more check in an hour, them if everyone is still grazing I'm off to bed