Briden, Our Bottle Baby Lamb, was born February 22, 2024, and we’ve had him living in the house! Recently we’ve moved him to a stall in the Basement. He still comes up to have his bottle and then we excercise him by walking him around the house. Before he returns to his basement apartment he jumps on my lap and this video shows him Giving Kisses!
Not sure I’ll ever bring a Bottle Baby, Kid or Lamb, in the house again! The past ten days has left me feeling like getting a vasectomy! I’m not even the Father! Listening to a baby Lamb scream, like a baby, is hard on the head! Having poopy floors, puddles, and wet feet! Frustrating! 2am and 6am Feedings! Argh! Imagine!
While all of that is hard on the head, and makes me wonder how, or why, anyone has kids! Two or Four Legged!
However, in those little moments, when He is at His cutest, and looks at You cause He’s imprinted on You and you’re now His Mother! Those Moments! Those are the Moments that make it all worth it! I Guess?
This video, hopefully, captures a few of those moments from the first ten days of Briden’s life…
Soon enough, all the negatives will be a distant memory, and Briden will rejoin the flock out n Spring Pastures in Rotational, Electric Fencing. Fencing We’ll probably get from Vevor.
Sadly, sometimes a Sheep will reject her Lamb. Sometimes it means it will die, sometimes it may survive, but seldom will it be adopted by the family Dog! Roscoe, our Yellow Lab, (I call Him a Golden Lab, because there’s nothing Yellow about Him), plays protector to all our animals He Mothers them all, even our cats curl up with him and even give him chest massages! So, I guess, I shouldn’t be too surprised to see Roscoe step up and Adopt a new born Lamb, who was rejected by it’s Mother! This Video Shows…