Since I began taking photos and videos of each orphan lamb after they were born in April, it has developed in to a record of their journey. As they have grown up and I have gotten to know each personality, I have been more aware of their value as friendly sheep that love to meet people and of their destiny as domestic farm animals. I am still adding each lamb https://www.facebook.com/sheepstars?ref=hl
Lambs become orphaned for various reasons. The ewe mother may have disease of the teats like mastitis and cannot feed her lambs or if she has triplets, she can only feed two. Sometimes the mother will day after few days of the lamb’s life or she may just not want to be a mother. In the wild, a lamb may be accepted and adopted by an ewe that has not lambs of her own but this does not happen generally with sheep with lambs of their own.
I would hope there may be possibility of preserving some of these precious personalities for education purposes as although we primarily raise sheep for the food industry, all animals are sentient beings with relationships and are individuals. I will try to crowd fund to try to secure their survival in a flock share but if this will not be a popular idea then it will remain a record and tribute of a personal study of sheep. I have looked after many animals and species and am always aware that there is a time to part for various reasons but having imprinted it is particularly difficult this time to just allow them to go to their destinies. Georgie and Dot have already gone to market and this has been painful. I am still in mourning. There is a chance they may be kept for breeding but also for fattening.
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