Little Lambikins

[Hazell B]

Sweet little things, lambs. They're the sole reason the word 'gambol' exists. Everyone likes to see them appear in the fields in spring, then on the menu in summer

Having spent sunday afternoon helping pull them out of sheep's rear ends, I'm not so keen on them any more

Until then I'd never been there for the birth of anything. One of my friends, ever keen to make me take up farming, had insisted on teaching me about lambing on his flock. He thought I might find baby lambs cute .....

They're gormless, really loud (until you want them to bleat so you can find their mother, then the blighters shut up ), always under your feet, almost impossible to bottle feed and far too big to fit easily through a sheep's cervix. They are also incredibly slippery when wet

Still, I enjoyed my kebab on the way home :

Ever been present for a birth, animal or human?

[schmenke]

...Ever been present for a birth, animal or human?

Yep ...and plan to be present for another one in April

[Hazell B]

Does that mean congratulations are in order?

[schmenke]

Ta!

[EuroTroll]

Ever been present for a birth, animal or human?

I've seen the birth of pigs. Seemed relatively uncomplicated. :\ I've also seen a pig meet its end in the old fashioned way, through a knife. A far more enduring memory.

Congrats, schmenke! :

[Eki]

Ever been present for a birth, animal or human?

So you were a Birthday present for that lamb?

[martinbalmer]

Ever been present for a birth, animal or human?

Yes... We all have, haven't we :

Yep ...and plan to be present for another one in April

Congratulations

[Eki]

Yes... We all have, haven't we :

Which one was it in your case, nitromaster?

[martinbalmer]

Which one was it in your case, nitromaster?

Both : I was out in the garden earlier in the year and some chicks hatched out very close by.

[ian959]

Look on the bright side Hazell, you have endured one of the worst tasks on a farm (well, outside of running around a dity great field tying to catch a stupid bleating sheep with half a lamb hanging out of its rear end anyway).



Although trying to get a calf out of a cow when its the wrong way round is a bit of a bugger. Suckers are also slippery and that final almighty tug before you consign cow and calf to the abattoir is guaranteed to have you, calf and cow flying with the greatest of ease across the barn to land with an almightier thud in a collective pile of straw, dung, blood and god knows what else (and you of course buried 'neath it all).


Yes, been there, done that...