lambs

[chlomar]

I live on a farm at the moment, for a few more days at least. Yesterday at 7:23am we got a call from John, one of the sheep partners. One of the many very pregnant ewes was starting to give birth! We leapt out of bed and ran down to the barn.  M

Comments

[lucubr8r]

Awesome! What an appropriate way to welcome spring.

[sonatanator]

That's how they come out, sure, but I hear when they go in, they look like lions.

[sylvansafekeepe]

Yay baby animals! Especially cute ones!

[philochoros]

Spring is icumen in.
Lhude sing baaaa.

Great story and images, but left us hanging:
what did they name the "boy" ?

[playfulfordian]

Apparently there's a rule that all Icelandic sheep born in the same year have the same first letter in their name. The assumption is that the letter for this year is "U".

The first lamb that was born before these two was named "Uh-Oh" (mom was "Stompfoot").
These two lambs were named "Unicorn" (white) and "Ucalyptus" (black).

There is a llama that lives with the sheep. It's name is "F sharp".

[chlomar]

Nora got to meet all of these fine folks, in case that wasn't obvious from her post. Last night two more appeared! I don't know their names. They didn't have names last night because they were born after 11pm and no one woke up the girls who name them. But they probably got names this morning.

[sylvansafekeepe]

That is sort of awesome.

[womenfly]

Wow! How very cool. What a wonderful thing to be a part of, Chloe! Thanks for sharing it.