stinkygoat (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} stinkygoat) wrote,@ 2008-02-10 23:09:00 |
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Nature gives, and Nature takes away
sometimes brutally.
We got up this morning early, to go to the Sunday boot sale in Carmarthen. Upon going to check the sheepies we found Ewenity in the field with only one of her lambs.
We spent the next couple of hours searching all nearby land where it might have got lost, but there was no sign. We can only conclude that it was taken, by a fox or a hawk I suppose, those being the only likely threats to anything round here. For such things to even take lambs in rare, although it is possible when they are newborn and tiny.
Even so, I've never seen a fox on this place in 10 years I've lived here... but whatever happened, that little lamb is gone without trace, and only a few hours after coming into the world, poor little bugger.
Both mums and lambs will be shut in the stables from evening until morning from now on, until the lambs are definitely big enough not to be at risk. Ewenity really doesn't like being shut in, but she'll have to get used to it. We can't risk any more lambs being taken :(.
sometimes brutally.
We got up this morning early, to go to the Sunday boot sale in Carmarthen. Upon going to check the sheepies we found Ewenity in the field with only one of her lambs.
We spent the next couple of hours searching all nearby land where it might have got lost, but there was no sign. We can only conclude that it was taken, by a fox or a hawk I suppose, those being the only likely threats to anything round here. For such things to even take lambs in rare, although it is possible when they are newborn and tiny.
Even so, I've never seen a fox on this place in 10 years I've lived here... but whatever happened, that little lamb is gone without trace, and only a few hours after coming into the world, poor little bugger.
Both mums and lambs will be shut in the stables from evening until morning from now on, until the lambs are definitely big enough not to be at risk. Ewenity really doesn't like being shut in, but she'll have to get used to it. We can't risk any more lambs being taken :(.
