I'm feeling much better now

 

....Thank you for asking.

I've been doing lots of this which has really helped.

Here I am with my brothers. I'm going to catch them up one day.

posted by Fran on Pearl's behalf.

Triplets

I tried but couldn't come up with a catchy title for today's post. Anyhow, here they are, from left to right,

                                                          Amber,Umber and Pearl.

Here is Umber, he is the one with the  dark socks.

And this is Amber, he is a little lighter than his brother.

And here is our little Pearl.
 She is smaller than the boys who are both voracious eaters. We are trying to make sure that Pearl gets enough to eat without being muscled out by her stronger brothers.

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She's holding her own though.

Three's A Charm

We were over on Vancouver Island yesterday and came home to find Dandelion had triplets ! She had them all on her own and did really well.

Here they are this morning, their first trip out into the outside world.

So far so good. We've never had triplets at Periwinkle before but she seems to be feeding all three quite adequately so we're not going to intervene at this point. Much better that they are fed by their Mum than a bottle. Two boys and a girl. We're thinking Amber and Umber for the boys and Pearl for the little ewe lamb.

There will be more updates so do check back !

Happy Easter

It's not Easter without some lamb pics !

Here is Marmite and her twins, Indigo and Violet. This picture was taken a few days ago

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Here they are today. A bit bigger and nibbling on some leaves.

Here are all the lambs together.

 (Hard to get a picture of I'll tell you

They don't stand still long enough.)

Here are the twins, Ochre and China. They love to snuggle up together.

And this is Violet. I think she's part monkey !

So Happy Easter from all of us at Periwinkle !

Double DOUBLE Trouble !

So when I left to help out at Seedy Saturday we had one lamb, Sienna.
When I came back, Cashew had given birth to twins. They were very small and weak. She was on her own as Simon was away in the afternoon too. Our power was out so I ran down the road to our neighbours to use her phone to call him home. We got them eating, a boy and a girl, but we were quite concerned about them. The girl was particularly TINY and the boy had something up with his leg, (we think Cashew may have stood on him by mistake).

But all is well so far, (day 3). Here is the little ram. His name is Ochre. His leg is fine now and he runs around no problem.

Here is the little ewe, her name is China. She's a little fighter and has been gaining weight since Saturday.

Aren't they sweet ?

Later that evening we were out with Cashew and the twins. We had put Marmite in the camera barn so we could keep an eye on her when all of a sudden I heard a new born lamb crying. Marmite had given birth to black twins. They were very lively and she licked them off and they were up and eating within minutes. A very different scenario to Cashew's twins.

Here they are on day 3 out and about in the orchard.

And a photo op with the shepherd.

Marmite is keeping a close eye on them !

And one last one of the littlest members of the flock.

I just love the kneepads

First Lamb of 2010

Here she is !

   Brand new, with her Mum, Humbug.

We decided on colours as a bit of a theme this year. Her name is Sienna.

Both Mum and daughter are doing great. Humbug is a very good and patient mother.

Sienna is very curious and met her first monkey puzzle tree today.

Hello from Quatchi

He is wearing his Olympic red mittens that I made him. The pattern is courtesy of Pogknits who came up with them and posted a free pattern.

 
 

They are  the most popular souvenir from the games so I thought it was fitting our little office mascot should have a pair of his own.