Saturday, June 27, 2009

2009 lambs


I have eight lambs that are being raised on goat milk. Ivanna is the oldest one. She is huge and old enough to be weaned, but I have too much goat milk not to feed her. Ivanna lives in the pen with the milk goat, Lollipop. Ivanna gets to roam the back yard and eat weeds. She does a good job of it too. The other seven lambs are now in a big pen where the horse used to live. The drink their milk from a bucket (yellow that had laundry detergent in it) that has eight nipples and tubes that go down to the milk. They are a motley bunch. They were given to me by a neighbor and all had problems. Ivanna's mom didn't have enough milk for her. Nogie had white muscle disease and a dislocated shoulder (that is fine now). Bielie and Yamyen were premature. I am not sure on the others now - but all are growing and eager to eat. They sure can make a big racket when they see or hear me.

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