Some of you may remember my joy a few months ago at finding and aquiring 4 Castlemilk ewe lambs, well heres an update.
They are just lovely, such a pretty animal, so sweet looking, they have atracted a lot of comment localy and much finger and camera pointing from the popular path that runs beside my bottom parks. i did make a point of telling the local keeper that the wee brown horned beasties in the strath where sheep not deer, so no shooting them pal. As for behaviour, when i was heptivacing them i found them to be cuddly and very funny, funny cos when i got in the pen with them they put thier heads down and hid from me, arse in air "I cant see you so you cant see me!" more of this trait in a moment.
I write today cos of todays hillarity. In the months since they joined my Cheviot Ewe lambs they have been easy and straightforward, like the white blobs (they are brown blobs so the cheviots are now the white blobs to my glassless eyesight). Today in the snow was the first time they behaived diffrently. In the snow they hid head first in a crack in a wee cliff in my bottom park, a crack only large enough to get your hand in and no more, all four, one on top of the other, in a heap. So they had thier arse out in the snow but thier face was in the crack, so that seemed to be ok. That was funny enough, but when i went down to feed them this afternoon they had displayed the first sign of thier Moufon sheep/goat ancestry. They were half way up the cliff, the 4 of them on a coffee table sized patch of green. how they got up there is beyond me, (not beyond them though). they just looked down at me in a way that reminded me of a Manx ewe my neighbour used to have, she habitualy ran with lambs up the side of the barn and stood on the pinnicle of the roof when dreching guns or heptivac needles were around. The brown blobs appeared like magic when the bucket came out, though i did not see how they got down. this could be a sign of things to come.
Got to say though even by sheepie standards they four wee brown blobs are brilliant, thier entertainment value alone make worth the money.
Topic: update on Castlemilk sheepies (Read 6468 times)
