Wednesday, 17 October 2012

What did I tell you?


Babies come when they're ready, not when the book says. My grumpy ewe gave birth early this morning, on the tail end of a horrendous rain storm, to a single ewe lamb. It was an easy birth, my only contribution was to put some iodine on the lamb's navel, then back away from a seriously hormonal new mom giving me the hairy eyeball and stomping her foot.

I just hope her daughter doesn't inherit her mother's temperament.

5 comments:

Colette said...

Congratulations Sheep Granny xx

Anonymous said...

All baby animals are cute but lambs have more than their fair share.

Congrats. Hope all the rest are as easy.

Accidental Mick

Maria said...

Congratulations to you and the ewe! on the first lamb. oh dear, what a pun.

Seester said...

Ok, not your most "in focus" picture, but still pretty cute. I'm curious though, why does the ewe still have raddle chalk marks all over her? Does that not wash off?

Hazel said...

Congratulations to Grumpy! Hope the rest of the births go as smoothly.