Okay, all you sheep folks out there...pleeeease, you've got to get involved with my blog this time and LEAVE COMMENTS, SUGGESTIONS, IDEAS...!! Last year, we found the perfect place to buy bulk feed for our critters...while there several months ago, I met a super nice guy that raised Kahtadin and St. Croix sheep. He was filling his containers at the same time as we were, when our conversation turned to our animals. I'm always asking questions about different farm animals, so we hit it off discussing sheep, mules, chickens...Long story short...he explained that when lambing started, he always dreaded when a ewe produced triplets. Apparently, two are best and the third had to be bottle fed for optimum growth. I mentioned that our sweet pygmy nanny goat, Blossom needed a buddy to share her pasture with and he offered one of the next triplets born. Welllll, that happened 3 weeks ago and as of Wednesday, 2/18/09, we're now bottle feeding and raising a very cute, baby lamb. She's snow white, but she reminds me so much of a baby deer...we've decided on the name, "Doe"! I'm feeding her twice a day now and she weighs about 15 pounds. PLEASE BE SURE TO POST ANY COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS ABOUT THIS TYPE OF SHEEP OR ANY OTHER, FOR THAT MATTER...this is my first lamb, EVER, so I need input!! I'll be posting pics soon!! Thanks ahead for any info!!
Who knew I'd be a moma again at 52 (53 next week!)?? Yes, we've been given 2 more lamb babies this week from a friend in Knoxville! He called on Wednesday night and said that he'd had 2 sets of triplets born...one set on Tuesday and the other on Wednesday. Due to the circumstances that I've posted before, lambs grow better when there's just two...I said yes, of course, so now we have 3 babies. I met him near Knoxville yesterday, (Thursday) and picked them up. Doe is the first of my "herd"...3 months old and growing like a weed and now, Ray and Me-Me! Get it...Doe, Ray, Me...!! Ray and Me-Me are soooo tiny and soooo sweet! Ray is the black and white spotted male and Me-Me is the white female! Since they're only a couple of days old, I'm feeding them a bottle EVERY 4 hours, yes, that's day and night! Oh, how I've forgotten nightly feedings and HOW WONDERFUL breast feeding was!! These babies are still fragile with their digestion and there's alot that could go wrong, so PLEASE wish me luck!! I'm one that gets really attached to these critters around AWESOME ASS ACRES and I don't want to lose one! I've posted pics (that's normal for a proud new mom, right??), so let me know what you think!!
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