Please welcome the smallest viable British Soay sheep ever born on our farm –OR119-360. Is it any wonder we named him “Peanut”? Here he is the day he was born — all 1 pound 15 ounces of him: [Note: click on any picture to see a bigger version] We may eventually give this little guy […]
In our first five years of breeding British Soay sheep (2006-2010), our lambs’ birth weights ranged from 6 pounds 12 ounces all the way down to 2 pounds 5 ounces – quite a large spread. The largest lamb was almost three times as large as the smallest lamb, yet virtually all were healthy, and although […]
Now comes the fun part, working with our lambs instead of endlessly talking about them! I already used up the “every picture tells a story” line, so let’s just say one of our cooperative new lambs and my trusty digital camera will show you how we work our newborns. Remember the Lambing Kit? As soon as our first lamb arrived, the […]