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Thanks everybody, your making me blush.  We're only doing somethingb we love. Anyway, the sheep will be collected on Friday, there are 3 wethers (castrated males) and 2 females, they are quite big apparently, but then folk haven't seen our Elsie and Doris!  It also looks like we have a male guinea pig coming on Sunday, somebody who can't cope anymore and at a later date 3 bonded rabbits, one with 3 legs. I'd better catch up on my sleep now, because summer looks like it will be busy! |
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Here are photos of the new sheep, we have identified 2 of the boys, we will be trimming their feet tomorrow so will find out who number 3 is then, its not obvious because they have been castrated. These are the 2 definate boys, we've named them, Issac(left) and Noggin ( right)  sheep-3  sheep-4  sheep-5  |
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Lovely sheep - so glad there are folks like you in the world. People just make you so angry when they treat animals as some form of disposible plaything. |
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Not knowing much about sheep farthing, can I ask - are they OK health-wise? They look fine, apart from their feet as you say you are going to do those. |
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Aww bless I do like sheep, I really need to move to a farm! |
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look at those lovely faces |
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They sheep are not in very good condition. The vet had a look at them today and thinks they are starting to develop pneumonia, so they have all had an injection. We can worm them tomorrow, but must hold off doing their feet and vaccinations til next week. Noggin is quite poorly and very thin, in fact they are all quite thin. They do however now have names ( we think we have sexed thm, but didn't want to stress them out too much) So meet, Issac and Noggin, Zog, April, and Ester, |
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I am very sorry to hear they are not generally well farthing. Shows how looks are deceptive with our woolly friends. Hope they start on the road to recovery soon. |
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Noggin seems very sore and stiff this morning, we are not sure if he has arthritis or it is just that his feet need trimming. He is not strong enough to push his way into the feeding trough, which may explain why he is so thin. We are going to have to risk putting him through the stress of trimming his feet, even though it is against the vet's advice. Then if he is still sore I will ask for a metacam injection, to see if it helps, it will confirm whether he has pain somewhere. One good point, he was chewing cudd this morning which implies his stomach is at least working. April is still breathing quite heavily, but the others semm more settled today. I get so frustrated, these were supposed to be pets, and they seem to be in a worse state of neglect than livestock. The owners lived in a huge house, with 4 cars outside and yet couldn't afford to get the vet out to look at them! |
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Is there no way those neglectful owners can be prosecuted? They should at the very least not be allowed to have any more animals. That makes my blood boil. |
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