"Here we go again! "

Every time Sue is going to England, I think to myself  : "ok I'm going to be relax and having a shorts holidays"

but like always never happens that way.

Very early in the morning around 7:00, I heard  Teddy crying for going outside, so I decided to put him out, when I was going to feed the horses I thought ,the horses had been playing with  Miracle's rug  again but  my surprise was that I found a little baby sheep between all the horses, so I run as fast as I could and the poor animal was totally frozen, so I took my jacket off and put it around him, immediately I brought him inside the house, in fact inside the bed, so I must say sorry to Sue about the dirty bedding but it was worthy believe me! hahaha!

I put the radiator on and took  some towels from the wardrobe and I try to warm him out, god knows for how long he has been in there without the b...... mum!.

So I decided to go to the vet in Chalus and they gave a  special milk for him and the normal milk.

 
 
 Once I was feeding him, I said to  myself ok it's time to finish feeding the rest of the animals, but when I was going to put Luna outside, I saw the same sheep hitting another white spot in the far field and I said "oh no! " she was hitting another little sheep, so I took a stick because Romeo ( the castrated male) was facing me again in the middle of the field. I was running towards Lili ( she's the bad mum!) and I hold the baby and I started running towards home with her, in this case it was a beautiful girl, and for my bad luck the baby made this particular noyse thatsheep do ...and Romeo came like a mad thing against me,so I was running as fast as my legs were permitting me.now I got a couple of beautiful reasons to be happy!

I'm keeping an eye on the sheep because you never know what is coming next in here!

Lucia Andrade

" Luna of Nearly Heaven"

Luna 02/03/09

by Lucia Andrade

I thought that today, it would be a day like any other but I was wrong, after a long and intense day, while my boss was night flying, I decided to accommodate all the  animals including horses, ducks, chickens and sheep into their pens slightly before the proper time.

While I was putting the chickens and ducks away, I looked towards the sheep field and  I noticed that one of the sheep was inside the pen when normally she always lives outside in the fields, that's when doubt entered my mind.

I saw that she was  having contractions, then I decided to come closer and tried to help her, but she started attacking me and like any human being if an animal is facing you, you tend to take a few steps back ("anyway that's what I do" ). After a few minutes I tried again without success.

After that  I decided not to mess around if she was going against me but to  my surprise " Romeo"( a castrated male sheep)  was there trying to  stop me,and also trying to mate with her ......."Males! ".
He was very focused on me so, I  decided to go for some food and try to put him out of my way ! 

It was getting darker and darker and there I was, scared with no one to help me with the poor little sheep who was still suffering.
Finally the sheep realised that she was needing my help so she let me go near her, I was with a pair of gloves, a torch and my jacket, after a long 15 minutes I managed to bring the little baby lamb into this world.

 " Romeo still around! " 

 

   Now my only problem was trying to bring them inside one of our stables, in which I put some fresh straw, an infra red lamp and food for the mum, it was cold outside and with the baby in one hand and the torch in the other on,  I tried my best to bring them over, it was quite difficult because I had to pass under the metal fence and then try to make the mum follow me.

At the end both were inside the stable and there I was sharing her first minutes of life, now I can say that  I have got another "Miracle" called "Luna"

  Luna = Moon

Lucia Andrade ( sorry about my english)