Is it Sad ?

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.:)
 
carol brown said:
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.:)
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That is the kind of sheep stories that I like to hear.
 
Ind spark said:
Watching emmerdale farm, didn't see any sheep or chickens
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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.
 
Alan22 said:
I have had a few, not many that survived to be honest, had an orphaned roe deer fawn for a couple of days, it didn't make it either, are you sure you can trust that postman didn't just find it wandering about the road?

Did you know roe deer fawns have eye lashes about an inch long.
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If you have any more Alan, They need omentum....mama's first milk or they'll die.
 
Alan22 said:
I have had a few, not many that survived to be honest, had an orphaned roe deer fawn for a couple of days, it didn't make it either, are you sure you can trust that postman didn't just find it wandering about the road?

Did you know roe deer fawns have eye lashes about an inch long.
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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 !!! :p:p:p
 
carol brown said:
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 !!! :p:p:p
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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.
 
Alan22 said:
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.
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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.
 
bright_Spark said:
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.
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People used to buy up the little fluffy hatchlings and carefully take them away to feed them live to snakes.
 
Alan22 said:
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.
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OMG :eek::eek::eek:
 
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