Lamb tour
Posted: Tuesday, 10 April 2007 |
Please don't expect excellence! I took photos with an all-purpose camera in the early morning in dusky byres - and my subjects wouldn't hold still!
I'm so glad the three yows decided to lamb during the daytime! I still checked on them via the camera all night but we didn't have to get up and lamb anyone!
Hmm. His head looks a bit big...
How did you get so dirty little lamb??
"Me first! It's my turn to sook!"
Zeb hides out in the cattle byre
Some of the older lambs in the big pen in the nissen
Dinner time!
Update: Sheep #9 has delivered two fine lambs - one yow and one tup. We had to lamb her though. Both of us believe that these hard lambings are due to the strange incident that took place not long ago and freaked out all of the sheep.
I'm so glad the three yows decided to lamb during the daytime! I still checked on them via the camera all night but we didn't have to get up and lamb anyone!
Hmm. His head looks a bit big...
How did you get so dirty little lamb??
"Me first! It's my turn to sook!"
Zeb hides out in the cattle byre
Some of the older lambs in the big pen in the nissen
Dinner time!
Update: Sheep #9 has delivered two fine lambs - one yow and one tup. We had to lamb her though. Both of us believe that these hard lambings are due to the strange incident that took place not long ago and freaked out all of the sheep.
Comments
What a bonny dog! But I keep looking at the wee lambs and thinking, *future rugs*....sorry...*blushes*...it`s me profession..... *adds an "awww" tae be politically correct...;)
Hermit from Sanday
Coloured ones make nicer rugs! I have just got a chart from the Fudge Company shop in Lerook, and it has all the colours of Shetland sheep and their names, including combinations. Moorit and shaela were my limit, but now, to have such knowledge at my pawtips! (don't forget the mintsauce in a few months, TGMITN)
Flying Cat from dribblingalloverthejoint
Do you tan lamb/sheep hides?? Do keep in touch!!
Michelle Therese from Moooo! and Baaaah!
I'll get my spinning wheel out...oh sorry. They are just beautiful.
Vera from Boston, Massachusetts
We are going to surprise one of our dear friends with a lamb for his birthday. But we'll present it early so he can tell us when he wants it in the freezer. I plan on handing him a jar of mint sauce with a bow on it hehehe! I tried spinning once...all I did was create endless dreadlocks!!
Michelle Therese from Mainland Orkney oan the fairm
Rastafarian sheep...
Flying Cat from in a spindle
spinning is like everything - you canna just try it once - practise makes better results - where wid we all be if we just tried it once and then gave up? (no smut intended) (actually no one wid be here) (sorry that thought popped into my head)(please do something about the brackets - TWS are you there?)
scallowawife from reading instructions
Well Michelle, if ye ever get oot this way tae Sanday, ye can hae a go o` me Ashford spinning wheel. It took some very kind wifie actually showing me, afore I could pick it up meself.
Hermit from Sanday
So...I traded my quiet cabin in the Alaskan woods for the howling winds of Orkney and life on a farm. 
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