We separated the ewe and tup lambs this week. The tup lambs are now getting a bit frisky – although it’s unlikely that the ewe lambs are in season yet, we’d prefer not to take the chance of out of season pregnancies. It was a bit strange looking at the fourteen ewe lambs and seeing […]
Wallace has been badly lame. He’s had three different antibiotics and an anti-inflammatory / painkiller. He gets better for a few days then gets lame again. The vet thinks it’s a spinal abscess. Otherwise he’s fine – gobbling down his bottle and some cake. Not sure where we go from here. It’s not looking good, […]
Wallace and Winter, the bottle-fed lambs,are now on three feeds a day and are taking 500ml at each feed. They are also nibbling a wee bit of cake and eating grass. Wallace has had a double thumbs up – not only is he no longer destined for the freezer but he’s now going to be kept […]
Wallace and Winter, the bottle-fed lambs, continue to do well. They are now five weeks old and will be reduced to three feeds a day from today. It looks like Wallace will be going to a nice pet home, once he’s weaned. We moved the four gimmers and the wether to some grazing that we […]
Every year our lambs race up and down these humps in our ‘Home’ paddock. It makes me smile every time I see it.