LambLac Scented Heaven

Today I woke early to the deafening noise of the dawn chorus. After a quick snooze and some brekkie, I headed out to find O.A.P. (a maturer ewe) in labour. We watched her give birth to two lambs which was an amazing experience, before moving her into her own enclosure with her new lambs.


Unfortunately, due to mastitis, O.A.P. has barely any milk and so we quickly bottle fed the two lambs with some colostrum formula to give them the vital nutrients and enhance their immune development (as per natural colostrum).


We grabbed the shears and went to the bottom field to dag (remove the wool from a sheep's back end) a rather mucky ewe. That meant catching her first which was no easy feat! After lunch we filled in some holes in the road with scalpings unloaded from a trailer attached to a land rover (which I got to drive!). We then tube fed the ewe lamb and I took some photos of the grazing Hebridean sheep. Tonight we are going up to Cobstone hill to check on the cows and use the bat detectors. Hope we find some good stuff!