Well next door where the photo of the cria was taken (earlier post) there are also three ewes who have been pregnant. Two days ago Lee-Ann had noticed that one of them had given birth and there was the addition of a lamb. Well today when Lee-Ann and I were going for a walk around the block, wine in hand, I noticed that the other ewe had just given birth and there were now two additional lambs (we missed it by only minutes). The ewe was concentrating on cleaning one, but the other lamb, being ignored was getting headbutted by one of the others everytime it tried to stand up.

So after watching for a few more minutes to see if the lamb was OK – and obviously its mother had forgotton about it, Lee-Ann went to the people that own the animals down the street to inform them of this.

By the time we got back the little abandoned lamb had attached itself to the cria “sherry” as its mum. Anyway when the owner got there she picked up the weak little one which she said had not even had a drink yet. But after a bit of nudging by the owner the little lamb latched on to it’s real mum, so all ended OK.

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