Just for Bright - our first lamb was a little Ewe, and she went back to the farm when she'd grown up enough. I did try to get her housed with a lady that "took sheep In", but I couldn't get a movement order for her. It was a time of some disease I've forgotten the name of and it was "animal lockdown" And the 2 boys we had at the next house, the children persuaded the farmer not to send them to slaughter, when they went back. And he didn't, which I'm sure of, because a year later they broke through the fence, and frightened my brother out of six months growth, when he looked up from reading his paper to see 2 wooly mammoths peering at him through the French doors. they'd popped home for a visit.
Well that's because it is all on here, take a read of carol's sheep story, it starts off as a couple of Lambs destined for slaughter, the ending is fantastic so I won't spoil it for you. I have read it 3 times now just to make sure it remains the same.
That's prime English pasture finished lamb, the black faced hooligan sheep round me were down to £15 not so long ago.
I think I've sent you something I wish i hadn't. New lambs need colostrum - first milk or they'll surely die. Not the other stuff !!!
I don't think you could get that when I had them, they got watered down cows milk that had to be boiled first for some reason, fed in tiny amounts, survival rate was less than 50/50 but some did survive.
It's a bit of something, go shopping for than and they'll think your Jack the ripper I've just realised I've been sticking my tongue out emoji when I thought it was laughing emoji - I need my new glasses!
Could you not just say they all survived Alan, I am starting my tour tomorrow and would really need some happy thoughts, not being worried over lambs starving to death without their mothers.
Did you ever get the hen chicks from the market? I remember they had hundreds of them hatching in a big box and you could have as many as you wanted for 50p, I got a load of ducklings once, two survived, I think it would shock most people how much dies on the average farm.
People used to buy up the little fluffy hatchlings and carefully take them away to feed them live to snakes.
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