Okay, so I shouldn't be too surprised because it's all my fault! Back in the spring, our first lamb that was born was a ram lamb to Tweed. He was a single lamb, and then got the added benefit of eating from his older sister's milk because she lost her lamb after a couple of days. By the time I got to the field to band (bloodless castration) the ram lambs, "Juan Fatram" was just too endowed for it to work. Juan went into the freezer in November, but apparently not before he'd developed good relationships with some of my ewes.
This afternoon, when Ashley was out feeding she noticed a funny little bunch of fur out in the grass. She came and got Charles who called me just as I was getting in my car to come home from work. The lamb is doing all right, but her mother, Cathy Gale, has rejected her. Cathy had a second lamb but it looked to have been stillborn. Cathy doesn't have a very good mothering record - one stillborn, twin rams, one ram and one bottle ewe lamb, and now one stillborn and one bottle ewe lamb.
The new ewe lamb looks like a skunk with a white stripe on her face with black on the sides, so her name started out "Skunk" then went to "Flower" and finally settled on "Flora".
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