Lamb Confusion!

Sorry folks but I've had a mix up! The little stunner in the previous post is Ruby's tup lamb, but still a very handsome HST :o) Chris sent the photos to me without labelling them and made the wrong assumption! I'm home now and have sorted it!


This is my HST ewe lamb out of Sheilhope Gruna! She's gorgeous, very tall and leggy compared to the other lambs and with a tight crimpy fleece. She's a funny colour though: there seem to be white hairs interspersed in with the brown giving her a slightly frosted look.


I've called her Lunde after the Norwegian village I was staying in when she was born.

My little HST

Very quickly,since I'm in Norway and in a hurry... I missed the birth of this little beauty, but Chris sent me a photo. She's a keeper :o)

The Twins

To cheer me up Geherda produced these two little boys yesterady afternoon. Chris and I shut them into the little field shelter overnight and Chris slept in the lamb paddock to keep them all safe. Goodness knows how he will cope in the next few days as I have to go to Norway for work. I never thought that I'd be so gutted to have an expenses paid trip abroad!





Opinions on colour and markings anyone? Fawn(?) katmoget, yuglet, bersugget, sokket!?

Life - for a limited time only.

I'm so sad today. Robina's gorgeous little spotted lamb who was born yesterday is no more. Despite the fact that Chris and I have been checking the girls every four hours day and night, she must have been taken by a predator some time in the small hours of the morning. We suspect a fox but it could have been a badger, pine martin or even an eagle. There is no body, it is as though she vanished into thin air. Absolutely heartbroken and poor Robina just wanders around the field bleating for her lost lamb. I know that lambing outdoors is healthier but at this moment I do miss the security of locking the newbies in a building over night. I don't blame the predator, whatever it was, but I've been doing my best to look after them and now I feel awful. I suppose it was just one of those things. Chris will be sitting off tonight to keep watch over them all.

Did someone order spots?

Robina obviously took me seriously when I told the girls to have spotty lambs! Just look at this little lady! She was boinging about like Zebidee minutes after birth. I'm really thrilled :)

Easter Lambs!

Lambs at last! I'm so proud of these little cuties. After a couple of weeks of watching the girls getting fatter and fatter and milk bags stretching until some were looking ready to burst, the first lambs born to the Smali Flock have arrived.

The funny thing is that they were actually a surprise because when I checked and fed the girls at 7am, nothing was happening. Then when I returned at lunchtime I Gruna had her little ewe lamb dried off and feeding, while Gula was just cleaning off her little tup.

No one else has done anything yet, but I'm writing this and then heading back there.

Ewe lamb Smali Kate is a black krunet, or perhaps smirslet (please advise!). Or at least I thought that she was black, but looking more closely she could turn out shaela or another shade of grey. She looks silvery next to the skin. I'll have to wait and see! Gruna is a moorit and comes from a long line of moorit sheep so the colour and pattern are all dad!

Tup lamb Smali Bazil is a mooit/fawn (have to wait and see?!) bersugget katmoget. He's a socking lamb and a real explorer too. He was leaping around just a couple of hours after birth and mum Gula has to keep close tabs on him already.

Our friends Baz and Kate had just arrived to stay for the weekend when these two were born and Kate is also my little sister's name so Chris suggested that we christened them Bazil and Kate and it has stuck. So much for everyone beginning with A this year!

Lambs at last!

I'm so proud of these little cuties. Gula has a katmoget tup and Gruna a black krunet gimmer. This is from my phone. Proper post coming soon!