Spinning Lambs

 Well there's wool on it and it smells like Mum... maybe we need to turn that wheel to get the milk out?"

LLeyn Lambs

Two Lleyn ewe lambs doing what cade lambs do best - downing a bottle of nice warm milk! Lleyn are a Welsh breed, renouned for their easy lambing and great mothering abilities. Like most bottle reared lambs, these two were both one of a set of triplets. As sheep only have two teats triplets do better if one is taken away and fostered, either by another ewe with milk to spare, or humans (who can quickly become their slaves!)

I actually bought three Lleyn lambs, the third has been fostered by one of my Wensleydale ewes who sadly lost her own lamb.

Lleyn Lambs

Bought three Lleyn cade lambs today, one to replace the lamb lost by my white Wensleydale who is absoluteley heartbroken and trying to steal lambs from every other mother in the flock. I wouldn't have thought of keeping Lleyn, and only got these because they were the only lambs I could find for her... but having discovered them I was taken by their good looks, beautiful fleece and sweet temperament, before I'd been told about their practical qualities such as easy lambing, hardiness and ease of keeping. Perhaps I will keep them as another breed to give me a smooth, fine fleece... will see how they grow up!
The one below is wearing the skin of the Wensleydale lamb that died. A sheep will usually only accept a lamb if she believes it to be her own, and of course she relies much more on her sense of smell than sight. This little girl was quickly taken by the keen-to-be-mother.