| lambs etc. [message #15161] |
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Lambs? Lambs!!
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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| Re: lambs etc. [message #15184 is a reply to message #15183 ] |
Tue, 21 April 2009 20:07  |
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| Beauty/Anna wrote on Tue, 21 April 2009 20:05 |
I like tufty grass in great quantities..
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Surprisingly, I do too! LOL
At the moment it is all rather depressing, brown and bare. I keep having to control the serious Grass Envy problem I have. 
[Updated on: Tue, 21 April 2009 20:08]
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| Re: lambs etc. [message #15196 is a reply to message #15192 ] |
Tue, 21 April 2009 21:56 |
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| Ithilien wrote on Tue, 21 April 2009 20:55 |
| b_twin_1 wrote on Tue, 21 April 2009 20:11 |
Alpacas are non-seasonal breeders. So when they birth is entirely due to when the owner arranged the mating.... I would expect them to birth in spring-summer though over in the UK.
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Right. So when are YOURS due?
*waits expectantly with a pencil poised over her diary*
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*coughs*
Errr.... I let the male in with the females and let them go as nature intended this year. Ummm .... probably Spring time?
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: lambs etc. [message #15211 is a reply to message #15161 ] |
Wed, 22 April 2009 07:00 |
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Laaaaaambiessss!
*flail*
(Good hellhounds. *smooooshes*)
Smooshes!
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| Re: lambs etc. [message #15218 is a reply to message #15212 ] |
Wed, 22 April 2009 08:25 |
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| Mrs Redboots wrote on Wed, 22 April 2009 07:14 |
My brother is a shepherd, and has been very busy this year. Sheep are fools when it comes to giving birth - well, they're fools anyway - and if they can die on you, or produce a stillbirth, they will!
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Breed & genetics has a great deal to do with mothering ability etc. My merino ewes will run away at the first opportunity. The Drysdales will stand there and let me muck about with trying to get lambs to drink, ear tag etc etc. *loffs*
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: lambs etc. [message #15224 is a reply to message #15161 ] |
Wed, 22 April 2009 15:38 |
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Calves and foals leap and buck, but they don’t jump straight up, like a bounced ball, the way lambs–and fawns–do.
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Yes, they always make me think their feet have been clamped to the ground and then suddenly released, so that the planet almost throws them into the air.
If you want small and furry and cute, Ray took these today, while out on a dormouse survey:
This was a torpid male, still awaiting the call of Spring. Only a couple of weeks now and he'll be running around all over the place.
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: lambs etc. [message #15225 is a reply to message #15224 ] |
Wed, 22 April 2009 16:10 |
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| AJLR wrote on Wed, 22 April 2009 15:38 |
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Calves and foals leap and buck, but they don’t jump straight up, like a bounced ball, the way lambs–and fawns–do.
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Yes, they always make me think their feet have been clamped to the ground and then suddenly released, so that the planet almost throws them into the air.
If you want small and furry and cute, Ray took these today, while out on a dormouse survey:
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Oh my. *tries to control tiny animal squee*
Hibernation has uses. *g* Our research teams have to contend with lively critters. hehehe
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: lambs etc. [message #15227 is a reply to message #15226 ] |
Wed, 22 April 2009 16:52 |
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| Alannaeowyn wrote on Wed, 22 April 2009 16:46 |
I'm in the middle of trying to fiddle with my flock so I have a chance of white lambs, but this year everybody was black. Coal black. *sigh*
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Have fun with that.... *g* Black in sheep tends to be a recessive gene so unless you introduce outside genetics (white) then you will be battling up hill (given your lambs this year). We actually don't see much in the way of coal black here. What breed are your sheep?
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: lambs etc. [message #15228 is a reply to message #15217 ] |
Wed, 22 April 2009 17:39 |
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| Krystolla wrote on Wed, 22 April 2009 05:14 |
Kittens also do the sproinging straight up in the air that lambs do. For kittens I think it's the beginning of learning to pounce, there's only a week or less of popcorn kittens before they want to land on something when they come down.
They also have a goofy straight-legged gallop for enticing play. In the beginning there are no brakes so the gallop careens into furniture or other kitties until wiping out. I had complete sympathy for the bouncing-off-furniture section of dragon raising in DragonHaven.
Sigh. Now I need to think really hard about litter box training or I'm going to volunteer to foster another litter.
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Popcorn kittens! I hadn't thought about it being pre-pouncing - we always assumed their nervous systems were still maturing.
I love the way kittens chase each other, or their tails, or whatever, around and around and around and around... and then slowly subside to the floor in a furry pile and fall asleep, all at once.
I wouldn't give up my cats for anything, but I do miss that bouncy kitten stage.
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| Re: lambs etc. [message #15229 is a reply to message #15224 ] |
Wed, 22 April 2009 17:40 |
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| AJLR wrote on Wed, 22 April 2009 12:38 |
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Calves and foals leap and buck, but they don’t jump straight up, like a bounced ball, the way lambs–and fawns–do.
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Yes, they always make me think their feet have been clamped to the ground and then suddenly released, so that the planet almost throws them into the air.
If you want small and furry and cute, Ray took these today, while out on a dormouse survey:
This was a torpid male, still awaiting the call of Spring. Only a couple of weeks now and he'll be running around all over the place.
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So that's what a dormouse looks like. I've always wondered. How adorable, and how well he'd fit into a teapot.
"The creative urge can come out in any form: in embroidery, in... cooking, in painting, drawing and sculpture, in composing music, as well as in writing books and stories... the artist's inner satisfaction was probably much the same." ~ Agatha Christie
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| Re: lambs etc. [message #15260 is a reply to message #15185 ] |
Thu, 23 April 2009 05:33 |
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[quote title=Robin wrote on Wed, 22 April 2009 12:09]If you can get a good leaping-lambs video PLEASE post. I like it when they use their mums as ski slopes too.
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| Re: lambs etc. [message #15266 is a reply to message #15229 ] |
Thu, 23 April 2009 06:43 |
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| anne_d wrote on Wed, 22 April 2009 22:40 |
So that's what a dormouse looks like. I've always wondered. How adorable, and how well he'd fit into a teapot.
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Yes, dear little things aren't they. And they move like greased lightening when they're awake. And I'm informed that experienced dormouse wranglers/wildlife workers always work with sleeves rolled up...
Toggle SpoilerA husband and wife team, both experienced in this type of work, were going through a wood checking nest boxes and finding a heartening number were in use by the occupation signs. They came to one that had a mum and three well-grown youngsters who promptly took off in all directions. However, when they'd walked home after the survey, the wife noticed an itching between her shoulderblades. She apparently immediately put two and two together (lots of dormice + my jacket sleeves are long), rushed into the bathroom and stood in the bath* while her husband helped her to disrobe and - lo and behold - a very irate dormouse popped out from its nice nap between her t-shirt hoodie and jacket!
*Standing in the bath because if it had dropped out during her hasty strip, it couldn't then have got out of the bath and run away into the house.
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