Number of laughs caused by watching 28 lambs running around loose in the quarter-acre barnyard: I already lost count.
Tuesday, March 13
Tuesday Dose of Cute: Farm Dogs and Little Lambs
Number of laughs caused by watching 28 lambs running around loose in the quarter-acre barnyard: I already lost count.
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What great pictures and what wonderful livestock guardians all the dogs are! I'm glad everything is going well for you guys for lambing season! :)
ReplyDeleteGet some sleep, those babies won't starve, despite what they tell you! LOL!!
Hi Candy,
DeleteYeah, it's funny how the end of lambing (which means the end of my nightly 2am or 3am hikes down to the barn) always coincides with the time those bottle lambs stop needing that middle of the night feeding. ;)
I'm having so much fun watching all four dogs with the lambs this year. Daisy and Bert (aka Nurse Daisy and the Nanny Bear) spend most of lambing season with huge grins on their faces - when they're not passed out from exhaustion (or all the excitement). ;)
Of course that would be Daisy and Bear. Poor Bear gets called Bert half the time now. :)
DeleteSuch nice photos---especially Lucky Buddy Bear surrounded by his beloved lambs! Do you ever use the "lamb bar" bucket with the nipples for bottle babies? They take care of themselves so you are free to do other things.
ReplyDeleteI love hearing how well your lambing has gone this year. The weather helps so much. We are late lambing this season---they start next week with the exception of a few early-birds.
Thank you for sharing the experience. If only we could bottle what watching the lambs run around feels like! Can't hold back a smile, can you? No matter how often you see it.They're spring loaded it seems when they suddenly pop up off the ground. I read that it is called stotting.Love seeing Bert,as usual and look forward to the donkey operation day story.
Hi Dominique,
DeleteStotting - what a great word! I've never heard it before. We usually call it bouncing sickness - and thankfully we always seem to have an epidemic. They do seem spring loaded, don't they? Too cute. :)
I haven't used one of those lamb bar buckets, but I may have to look into it. These three ravenous little beasts are getting pushy!
Gosh - you must be so very tired!! I don't know how you manage. Well done - and thanks for my dose of cuteness today - the Happy Meter is full : ))
ReplyDeleteIs your curly pup a Komondor without dreads? I've been trying to figure that one out! Great pics! : )
ReplyDeleteGood eye! Marta (aka Marta Beast) is a tri cross: Great Pyrenees (which is what Daisy is), Komondor, and Anatolian Shepherd. She is goofy as all get out, sweet as can be, a fierce protector, and truly unique! She's also in desperate need of her spring shearing - before she finds any more mud puddles. :) You can see more photos of her here.
DeleteGah, my head has exploded from the cute...the dogs, the lambs, the dogs and the lambs. It's too much! What a wonderful thing it must be to see/hear it all in person. Sleep deprivation, not so much--THAT I don't envy you!
ReplyDeleteI just wouldn't know who to cuddle first! Lambs, big dogs, less big dogs, big preggo sheep...and I know there are baby donkeys nearby, too.
ReplyDeleteForget sleep, you're tired from cuddling.
Also, I'm sorry if that sounds lewd.
Oh, what darling photos!! Thank you for sharing them!! -Marci
ReplyDeleteSusan, is it possible for you to post a short video of those baby lambs and the dogs hopping around and interacting? I'm not sure I could survive the cuteness but I would LOVE to see them in action.... Thanks for sharing your life with us. I long so much for an internship on your farm....
ReplyDeleteWish you could post video of the racing lambs, they are so fun to watch! And 3 sets of triplets! Oh my!
ReplyDeleteI third the request for video footage. Those of us living in baby lamb-deprived big East Coast cities need some fun too, all we get to see are the baby rats (who are not without their own measure of cuteness) rustling in the garbage bags on the curb, and baby pigeons (who are without a doubt the most appalling-looking infants ever spawned) squalling loudly in poop-covered nests.
ReplyDeleteBear looks lamb deep!
ReplyDeleteOh how I love these lambs! I'll have to get pics of our farm's lambs up soon too!
ReplyDeleteSo cute! Hope you catch up on your sleep soon.
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