Our new babies

Lately, we have had some new additions to our farm family. Beautiful cuddly babies.

On Saturday we had a lovely girl lamb born to our ewe called Pirate (she has big black patches around both of her eyes). Both mum and baby are doing very well. The lamb has fitted right in to the gang of lambs that wander around together. They jump and play with each other and wander as far away from the ewes as possible. All the while their mothers keep a watchful eye. Winnie, the alpaca, is supposed to be the guardian of the flock but, sometimes he can be seen to be chewing on grass while looking in completely the opposite direction to which the lambs are heading. We haven't had a lamb taken by a fox in a while though so, he must be doing something right.

Our other babies are two calves by the names of Greg and Sean (named by the children, after friends of ours). It does seem quite silly to be calling out "Here Greg, here Sean" when I go out to feed them their milk. They are two weeks old and need to have milk twice a day. When they spot the orange bucket from which they suck their milk, they get very excited! I love their 'cuddles' and see them as a sign of affection when in actual fact, they are merely hungry! They will suck on anything within their reach. Even each others' noses. They have tried to suck on the dogs ears and noses but, the kelpie and collie were not impressed.

It is lovely to be around them as they are so gentle. Their eyes are big and wide. They bat their eyelashes when they are sucking on the milk teat. It really is gorgeous to watch.