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 Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | I grew up on a small family farm and so I should be used to waking up to farm animals in the house, but this morning it caught me off guard when I turned on the bathroom light and discovered a day-old lamb in a box on the bathroom floor. She was the smallest of triplets and didn't get anything to drink from her mother, so Dad fed her some colostrum yesterday and then this morning found her not doing well so he brought her in the house to warm up. Then he bought a bag of milk replacer and sent it home from town with me so I could feed her at 11. I got an ounce or two in her between 11 and 2, then at 4 when he got home, she was ready for more! She's already graduated out of two boxes and I brought her downstairs with me so she'd stop crying in the bathroom. Dad has already decided that she won't go back outside until at least Friday when it warms back up, so we have a house lamb for the time being. I think she could be my new traveling partner - I mean after all, every barrel racer needs a dog AND a lamb on the road, right?
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Location: Southern Pennsylvania | Haha. Go for it. Christy Loftlin has a pet pig. Miss princess sparkle is a pretty cool pet from the pictures. Oh and pictures please? |
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Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | Sorry for the delay on pictures.....internet decided to be a pain right when I was uploading them. I am actually thinking I might take her to the barrel race Sunday and see if anyone wants to buy her for their kids because I know what a pain bottle lambs are when you have to be gone. But we couldn't just let her die, we had to try and save her. |
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| Our neighbors had sheep and since they worked we always got lambs to take care of. We had one who broke her leg so she was with us for a while and everytime someone came to the door she would get so happy and run to the door to see who it was. If only they stayed cute ! |
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Location: Kansas | cutnrunqhmt - 2014-01-22 7:55 PM Our neighbors had sheep and since they worked we always got lambs to take care of. We had one who broke her leg so she was with us for a while and everytime someone came to the door she would get so happy and run to the door to see who it was. If only they stayed cute !
if only they stayed cute (and small) is right! |
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Location: WV | I have a soft sport for a lamb. I showed them in FFA and loved it. Mine would follow me to the bus stop, ride in a truck, come in the house like it was their own and cry like a baby when I got to far away. The funniest thing was one never liked my Aunt much and every time she would come inside the fenced area and she would have her back turned to him, he would pounce on her. There was just something he did not like. (animals have a good judgment of character) Hope you find him a home. |
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Location: Iowa, LA | Cutie pie!!! |
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| I love when they are little and cute like that!! :) My family still has a couple hundred ewes and when lambs get too cold, my mom pops open the door to the cooking stove that is fueled by wood. The lambs are wrapped up in towels and sit on the open door until they dry out their lungs and get warmed up ...
DISCLAIMER - No lambs were baked during these incidents - 
My little bunch is down to about 20 but I still love the babies! what a great 4-H project!! |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Awwww thats a cutie.... I have raised Boer babys out here, they are alot of work, you need to have some time on your hands to do them right and then they become so attached to you. |
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Location: stray dump capital of the world | Awwww....that is precious. I've hauled with bottle feeding kittens before but never a lamb. |
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Location: Kansas | Southtxponygirl - 2014-01-22 9:21 PM Awwww thats a cutie.... I have raised Boer babys out here, they are alot of work, you need to have some time on your hands to do them right and then they become so attached to you.
That is so true. Raising little ones is definitely time-consuming and then before you know it you have a 100-pound farm animal chasing you around looking for its next meal! LOL. That's why we're considering selling her pretty cheap if there is someone around here who wants a bottle lamb. We had a blast raising them as kids but as adults we all realize that they're really not a smart project financially. Dad thinks we'll have to feed her two bags of milk replacer ($25 per bag) and it will be a while before she's worth $50.
She is sure cute though, and right now she's standing in her box talking to me. Our two inside dogs are pretty intrigued by her.....I think they really want me to turn her loose so they can herd her (they both herd the full grown ewes when we're outside). |
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| Awwww!!! When I was little, my best friend's folks always had 3 or 4 in on the front porch when it was cold - they are so sweet!! |
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Location: Jersey Girl | Aaaawwwwww too cute!! |
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Location: Kansas | Wiggles has a name and a new hobby......watching Family Feud. My brother put her picture on his SnapChat story with the caption "Doesn't everyone watch TV with a lamb?"
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| We are bottle feeding a calf right now. They are sweet but they do grow up. Our name is money my husband was determined to sale her but when he got to sale he couldn't let her go. |
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| rodeowithjoker - 2014-01-23 9:35 PM Wiggles has a name and a new hobby......watching Family Feud. My brother put her picture on his SnapChat story with the caption "Doesn't everyone watch TV with a lamb?"
LOVE this!!! |
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Location: The birthplace of Honest Abe | I love the one pic where she is giving you the stink eye LOL
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Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | Griz - 2014-01-24 5:27 AM rodeowithjoker - 2014-01-23 9:35 PM Wiggles has a name and a new hobby......watching Family Feud. My brother put her picture on his SnapChat story with the caption "Doesn't everyone watch TV with a lamb?" LOVE this!!!
She seriously laid there and watched an entire episode of it, even when Dad Brett and I got up and went to the other side of the basement to play Monopoly. It was hilarious because she never took her eyes off the TV. I think she liked the noise.
We're hoping we can take her outside some today so she can run around more.....inside we have to watch her closely because she's NOT potty trained LOL. |
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| My mom raised and trained working stock dogs when I was a kid so we always had at least 30 or 40 sheep. We had one old ewe who would have triplets every year, but only half of her bag worked so one lamb got kicked out every year, and became my project. We could have culled her, but she was a sweet old girl, and her lambs were a great project for me as a little kid.
My first bus driver still tells a story about driving down to our place early in the morning to pick me up for my first day of school (I was the first one on the bus as we lived over an hour from town). "Lamakins" (who was getting rather large by this time) had bailed over the fence and followed me onto the bus. She ended up having to wait over 10 minutes because this lamb would NOT let me out of his sight and the second I tried getting on the bus he would barge in with me... My mom was embarassed at the time, but I was Mable's favorite kid forever after that.
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