Megan's 2008-2009 School Year

New Lambs

    About a week ago, my sheep had 2 lambs, one boy and one girl. The boy weighed 10 1/2 pounds, and the girl was 11 1/2 pounds. The Mom had the girl first and I was so happy she had had a girl. Then we discoverd somthing terrible. We were trying to see if the mom had milk, and of course, my luck, she has no milk.

 The lamb was trying to eat, so Dad told me to go make some milk. We came in the house and I started measuring out the powdered milk, and Dad was digging around in the freezer. I came into the kitchen and went to the sink to get some water for the powdered milk when Dad said,"Lets try this first." He had saved some milk from a diffrent ewe and put it in a icecube tray and stuck it in the freezer. When we finished heating up the milk, we went to take it outside.

When we got back out to were she was, she had had the boy. The mom was cleaning up the boy. I picked up the girl and tried to feed her. Since she had not eaten anything yet, it was pretty easy to feed her because she was hungry. When she finished I picked up the boy and fed him some.

I'll try and get a picture of them sometime soon.