Sheep! Lambs!

My stint of feeding the sheep and lambs is nearing its end. You can see that it is a highly technical procedure. The triplet lambs get bottle-fed twice a day. They nurse from the mother but since she may not be making quite enough for all three, the evaporated milk is an important supplement. After two weeks, two of the lambs are on board with things and come running up to me. The third one, the smallest one of course, is a little butthead and I have to catch him to feed him. Fortunately, catching him isn't difficult since he follows his mother closely and all I have to do is herd her into the pen and he'll tag along.

Besides the six ewes and nine late (that is, little) lambs, I also have to feed 21 lambs and I think 15 or so ewes that are kept in the upper field. In the video, you can see the lambs going into a creeper pen. The openings are too small for the ewes. Some of the lambs are now almost too large to get in there too. Waiting for them inside the barn are green alfalfa pellets and brown concentrate pellets with corn and other grain and molasses. They all go nuts for the brown pellets, thus the literal feeding frenzy as the lambs all try to push at the same time into the one opening that is still large enough for them.