According to Calico the cat, there is something quite, quite wrong with this photograph. She should be on the inside and the lamb should be outside. But the lamb, who is a matter of hours old, got a bit cold outside and had to come into the Granny Annexe to warm up a bit. I got to lamb sit while Mum went to move a few sheep so that lamby, his sister and his mum could move to a pen nearer the electricity socket and so enjoy the delights of the heat lamp.
In the meantime lamby got to sit by the wood burner, which was why I was babysitting him - Mum didn't want to come back and find he'd caught fire (or been eaten by her dog). A couple of hours of snuggling in the warm and a belly full of milk and he was back outside with his family, firmly ensconced under the heat lamp.
Oh poor little thing, you can see every rib in the first picture. Glad he warmed up and was able to go 'home'.
ReplyDeleteBless 'im - he does look a vulnerable little scrap. A bit of tlc, some mother's milk and a few days in this fantastic sunshine should see him right.
ReplyDeleteVery sweet, but he looks to small for his lambskin coat. Didn't you have a size to fit?
ReplyDeleteVery sweet, but he looks to small for his lambskin coat. Didn't you have a size to fit?
ReplyDeleteDear little soul. He does look rather chilly Mags. Off for a catch up now as the hols have played havoc with my blog-reading. Happy Easter to you x
ReplyDeleteAwww aren't they small and little and baggy at first. When you see them boucing around the fields they look so woolly and roly poly it is easy to forget that they don't start off like that.
ReplyDeleteWhat a poppet.