Feeding lambs
Until now I had seen a lamb being born in the field above Martin’s house in Voe – a tiny black bundle being licked clean by its white woolly mother.
I had also been to visit Vaila’s lambs and she fed one aged 3 days old from a bottle. Now animal-mad Cristina is here, so I arranged to go back to my prior landlords in Gletness and inspect their Shetland breed of new borns. When we arrived, we discovered that there are two lambs being fed from a bottle and their afternoon feed had been delayed for our arrival so that we could feed one each. The Cri got both of them. I’ve never seen her so happy!
