There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number six.
There are not sufficient amount of photographs for tomorrow Photo page.
This is my first baby of this year.
She was found yesterday in the middle of a road.
She is about 10 days old and is fine apart from a tiny wound on her leg, I presume from whatever took her out of the nest. I have called her April !! Lynne.
This is a photo i took of a Egyptian Goose at Attenborough Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire.
Vicky from Derby.
Here is a photo of Beryl the blackbird sat in her nest, I was quite a way from her when I took it so it has turned out ok. Val.
A boiling sea in the Shetland Islands.Island of Unst.Lindsay.
Unfortunately Minty’s Lamb died last night. We think that it had got water into it lungs when it was in the stream. How it got there we are not sure. Over the past few days a Buzzard has been flying above the barn. There is a possibility that it may have tried to take the Lamb, and dropped it as it was to heavy to carry.
There were another two single Lambs born in the night. When we went to feed this morning we thought that one Ewe have given birth to twins, but the Ewe was butting one of the Lambs away. At the far end of the Sheep pen we noticed another Ewe that was down, on checking her she had obviously just given birth, but her Lamb was no where to be seen. We then realised that the Lamb being butted was the missing Lamb of the Ewe that was down. We penned the Ewe and Lamb on their own so that they could bond.
As we can see that Thornton is going to finish up being a pet, we thought that it would be wise to have him castrated, as he may butt people when he is older. We cant have him butting our holiday guests. He could also start to butt Tass and Kye. Castrating Ram Lambs is any relatively easy procedure, with not cutting and at Thornton’s age, no pain. Just an elasticated ring is used. Until about ten years ago nearly all Ram Lambs destined for meat, were castrated. It was then found that castration slowed the growth of Lambs so a lot a Sheep Farmers have stopped the practice.