Frank, Sometimes us humans must come to the rescue and that's wonderful. I love it. I know what you mean about those cute darling little creatures now belonging in a house. It may be necessary to do in a house with confinement but not as a normal practice. I have hatched and reared my chickens in the kitchen one year. Kitchen grease and feather dust. What a mess. I felt my kitchen was tared and feathered. I had 50 in boxes with plastic liners and paper and screen tops. They were clean abut what a mess. All these beautiful critters belong on the farm not in the farm house. It was great to do it just once. Now we have the outbuildings with electric for when they get older till Summer. BUT.. how cute they are... Barb in Pa.
Barb, we had our chicks in the guest bedroom in a huge plastic tote with a warmer mat under it, shredded paper that got changed twice a day, and a screen top. It still smelled a bit "fowl" in there. We don't get many guests . . . .
I started with totes and fish tanks, but I kept them with me till they were much too big. They wouldn't fit in them anymore. I had 50 in there. It was just bad timing for me. No more of that. I now have my out building with electric. That is what has changed for me. Happily, Barb in Pa.
oh Frank I'm just melting! My favorite lamb ever was a bottle baby. I do know of farmers who will go to some unpleasant extremes to get a ewe to take a lamb, hope yours just accepts her. But if she doesn't, all the work of bottle feeding her will pay off in a sheep who thinks you are mom & will follow you like a puppy, not a bad thing
Too cute. She'll be kicking up her heels and getting into things in no time. I'd forgotten it was lambing time. I'll have to be on the look-out for lambs in the fields
I'm so glad your lamb found a new mommy, and I bet your mom is pretty happy about it, too! Next month is calving time here in Central Texas. I'll try to get a photo of a new calf, but the mamas are pretty protective and I don't want to get a mama mad (as we say in Texas, "if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy".)
Oh that is good news Frank, I'm so happy for the little lamby and the Mommy. I'll bet the little furry guy is growing quickly!
May the cutie live long and prosper! I hope she'll have plenty of love from her adoptive mother and lots of fun with the other lambs. Concgratulations on a job well done.
Been many years since I helped Grand-father bottle feed lambs. And glad you was able to get mother to have a new baby.
Success - I'm really pleased that another ewe took on the little orphan Frank. Now it can grow up thinking it's a sheep and not a human.
