Little Miss Mouthie and Sunday Rose

Little Miss Mouthie is thriving.  She is putting on approximately 115g per day, and now weighs 6.31kg.  After lunch she goes out into the driveway paddock for some exercise.

She usually manages to draw quite a crowd!!

Meantime at 2 1/2 weeks of age Sunday Rose has decided she's old enough to play with the big kids, she leaves mum Sherrie far behind and hangs close with her older 'cool' friends.

New Lamb

On Saturday evening, my neighbours from down the road arrived with a little (well BIG really) ewe lamb, whose mother had walked away as soon as she was born.  She was found in the shallows of the dam!!

She gave me a bit of worry at the start but is looking much better now.  They had named her Maggie (as in Maggie Simpson) because of how well she latched onto the bottle.  They live about 10 kms south of us, and Maggie has the biggest voice I've ever heard on a lamb, so I call her 'The Mouth from the South', or Mouthie!!  She weighed 5.38kg this morning, which is pretty impressive for 4 days old.

She is 6 days younger than Sunday Rose, and they are both out of Merino mothers, by Dorset rams, hopefully they will be good pals a bit later on :)

Lambkins and Crias

Nothing cuter than lambs and crias, here they are today enjoying the sunshine :)

Jade is 14 months old now, past the cute cria stage but still a sweetie and a favourite.

Jemima is such a funny girl, she loves skitting about, running and pig rooting all over the shop!  LOL!!

Lambs heading out to do some exploring:

Whatchya'll doin'?

We're checking out the yards!!

Nope, not me, not guilty, wasn't even there!!  LOL!!

Llamas, Ody chillaxing:

And Mehitabel, in her Maybelline pose!

Rapunzel and her mum, Red Riding Hood:

Tibbs and Voodoo are very interested in the lambs, although Tibbs is not keen to get as close as Voodoo!

Our youngest cria Wolfgang is thriving and his light bright blue eyes mean you cannot help but look at him!

New Friends for Sherrie

Sherrie is our lone Merino ewe.

At the moment she is keeping company with a very handsome young Dorset ram, but he'll be going home (down the road) again soon, and then she's back to being on her own.... with 30 or so llamas and alpacas!!

But in a few months she'll have some company, when Milly, Molly and Mandy are big enough to be out in the paddock on their own.  They are second cross Dorset ewes.  The lady I got them from has 60 bottle babies at the moment!!  She makes me look quite sane really ;-P  She is looking for more people to help her out... by taking some babies with them when they leave - 3 is plenty for me to look after!!

Milly (Right, age 4 weeks), Molly (Centre, age 3 weeks) and Mandy (Left, age 2 weeks)

Very hard to get them to stand still for photos!!  They just keep walking towards me in case I have a bottle!

Milly (L) and Molly (R)

Dolce Died

Our little lamb Dolce, crashed overnight, rallied yesterday morning, and by lunch time we thought we'd rounded the corner, but she crashed again yesterday afternoon and we were powerless to stop her slipping away.... very sad :(

Kiki and the Blue Wrens, Freya and Ninja and new bug Dolce

Kiki spends a lot of time chasing birds, red brow finches, sparrows, blue wrens, they all need to be seen off, mostly the birds hide in the trees, which Kiki thinks is just not fair!!

When they arent being harrassed by Kiki, the blue wrens spend a heap of time knocking themselves out on the mirrors on the car!!  Not that bright!!

Wonders will never cease, Skinny and Kiki in the same bed!!  To be fair, it is Kiki's bed, and Skinny is almost never out of it!!

Today I went to Canberra to do a little shopping, it was nice to catch up with Freya and meet Ninja.  Rubbish shot of Freya, but the cat looks good!!

A better shot of the 2 of them, Ninja is a big purr bag, but plainly loves Freya more than the rest of us!!

And when I got home, I found a lamb in the laundry.  Apparently the neighbours had found her beside her dead mother and thought their kooky neighbour (me) might like to try to save her.  They phoned, spoke to Eddy, who took her in.  She's had a rough start, but is very keen to get on in the world, wish Dolce luck, she'll need it.  Now set up in the laundry with towels and heater!!