Used Omlet outdoor rabbit run Width 2.2m Height 2.05m Length 3.1m vgc.

[ubereglu]

What a difference being hungry makes then! They sound greedy, especially Buster, (cheeky lamb!). Glad they're doing well though!

[Lesley]

It's still a bit hit and miss with the bottles - 2 now take all their milk and the other 2 have to be coaxed............they are now on 2 milk feeds a day.

 

Two new boys.......

 

All four together - much easier than introducing hens!....or dogs!!

 

Cassidy drinks his from the jug.....

 

Jazz and Buster....

[The Dogmother]

Awww, those two new boys are gorgeous, look at their k"Ooops, word censored!"bly knees!

 

Has Cassidy knocked his jug over yet?

[TheGirlsMum]

I always love your threads Lesley, wish I was able to do as you are, so living the dream through your eyes

[Valkyrie]

Ahhhhhhh! Cassidy's tummy is getting round! Hopefully he will make a good dinner eventually. Runs away before things are chucked at me!

 

[Lesley]

I won't be chucking things at you!!

 

Eight halves of prime grass fed lamb is what they will be..........hard to take them off to the abattoir though - especially after they've been hand fed

 

Cassidy hasn't kicked the jug over because I don't usually put it down for him (only to take that photo) - he still has to be coaxed into drinking it.

[The Dogmother]

Bless him!

 

Personally, I don't have problems eating animals I've reared, but I can see how people might. The lamb your rams produce is always brilliant, Lesley

[ubereglu]

They're sweet and look like they're doing really well.

 

I particularly like the photo of Jazz and the lamb, very funny!

[Lewis]

Aww

 

I can imagine how hard it must be to take them to the abattoir, was talking to someone about table birds a couple of says ago - I really like the idea and want to do it, just know when it comes to it I'l be putting it off for a few days.

At least you know exactly whats gone into them and they've had happy lives

 

I always love your threads Lesley, wish I was able to do as you are, so living the dream through your eyes

Ditto

[Old Speckled Hen]

Me too. I could manage table birds, DH would neck them but nothing with big eyes and four legs. I have just returned from Morocco where ALL the birds are intensively reared. The Moroccans call them "Electric Chickens" and you see them on sale in the markets crammed into cages and they are weighed live when you buy them. Broke my heart

[Lesley]

How sad

 

Once these lambs are out on grass and become boisterous they won't be nearly as cute

[Valkyrie]

Hmmmmm roast lamb!

[Lesley]

Hmmmmm roast lamb!

 

Shhhhhhh - they might hear you!

[The Dogmother]

Watch it Koojie! I'll be in the queue to size them up.

 

Can't help doing that when patting the piggies either

[Valkyrie]

[mostin]

Very cute, but mmmmmmmmmmm mint sauce, bahhhhh .

 

I am still trying to work out if it was morally wrong of me to sit plucking a chicken in the sun the other day as I watched all my other chooks happily play in the sunshine. They even ran around my feet as I was doing it , talk about the circle of life .

[The Dogmother]

I tend to find that once it's in yer mouth, all agonising goes out of the window!

[mostin]

I tend to find that once it's in yer mouth, all agonising goes out of the window!

 

[Lesley]

Absolutely beautiful weather here so we moved the cows and sheep on to the next paddock so that we could bring the lambs to the lambing barn where they will have more room.

 

Lauren mended the swing and was quite happy - despite the pain from her collarbone - Jake found a stick so he was happy and the dogs were as happy as ............well, dogs in cow poo I suppose

 

 

First two lambs to move......

 

 

The two dogs obviously think the same as you lot!

 

 

Next two.....

 

 

 

The lambs are not impressed by Tali's attempts to be friends.....

 

 

All four in their new home......

 

 

We've made a small area of grass available to them during the daytime and they've been gambolling all over the place - even little Cassidy who is doing well on three and a half legs now! Three take their milk from a bottle on the bottle rack and just Cassidy being held and bottle fed - he suddenly decided he couldn't drink from the jug Jake named the fourth lamb so he's now Lamb Chop.

 

They will all have their Heptavac vaccination this weekend - they have to be over three weeks old.

 

We were talking to friends in the kitchen last night whilst I was making the milk for the lambs last feed when we noticed that Tali was very quiet - we called her and she appeared at the gate to the utility room looking like she had a very serious habit - nose all covered in white powder......she'd been head first in the lamb milk bag

[Lewis]

Lambs are very cute

- Cassidy is still going strong then ... if a little but awkward

 

Look at her

 

 

...Tali was very quiet - we called her and she appeared at the gate to the utility room looking like she had a very serious habit - nose all covered in white powder......she'd been head first in the lamb milk bag

Teenagers eh

 

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Trouble is, if my daft yellow muppet is anything to go by, the teenage phase is a long one

 

Lovely lambs Lesley, I am really quite

 

Sha x

[Lesley]

Look at her

 

Not so funny when Buster tried it the other way - and succeeded - when I was too slow getting the bottles in the rack

 

Don't tell me that Sha! - it's still funny at the moment....... don't know if it will stay funny. Watching her stalk the cats every day is just so hilarious - she really thinks they can't see this great yellow lump prowling around

[Snowy]

Love that pic of Tali, the look on her face as well ... thinking "if I can just get my bum through as well ..." Looks like it was a lovely day on the farm

[theherd123]

Wonderful Lesley!

 

Spring really has sprung on your farm and what a beautiful sight it is too

[Valkyrie]

Lovely piccies Lesley. Lots of lambies in the fields around here too. Seeing them plus the weather - makes me all cheerful - that and seeing a brimstone butterfly - summer's coming!