Little black Soay sheep on display in the play yard
I just can’t resist sharing a photo I was lucky to get a few days ago. Most of our lambs are now in a sunny high dry area of our farm with their moms, and are moving off to pasture grass a weeks’ worth of lambs and mothers at a time.
How the lambs love to eat, and then play, and then nap, and then repeat the set endlessly all day. Just as I walked into the sunny play yard, our three black British Soay lambs decided to take a nap together, with one of the rams’ twin sister (a pretty little greyish-brown ewe) nudging at her brother (presumably, I can’t read their tag numbers on the photo) to wake up and play with her. I laughed out loud at the middle ram lifting his tail as though to say, “see, I really am totally black!”
Hope your May days are as gloriously sunny and entertaining as ours are right now.
Soay lambs at play and at rest
That’s all for now …