Sunshine is old enough to do 4-H this year and wanted to do a lamb. She has cousins who have been very successful with their lambs and had good experiences, so she was excited to try it. I, on the other hand, hear the horror stories from my sister about all the things that can go wrong with sheep and I am not so excited! It is amazing what we do for our kids in the name of teaching them responsibility and the importance of work. Sunshine does a good job getting her chores done and she is pretty responsible, but it always creates more work for me when she gets a project! Maybe I should say it creates more work for Jared:)
Anyway, we got two lambs on Saturday morning and the first thing they did when we got home was get out and we spent an hour chasing them. Sunshine threw herself in front of one of them and got trampled, but she remained in good spirits and Jared finally got a hold of one. The other one came right over once his sister was in captivity. They aren't very smart, which is a plus for us! The rest of the weekend went smoothly and I was starting to enjoy seeing them out the window and the kids have had fun petting them. Then this morning happened.
Sunshine fed them and forgot to wire the fence shut when she was done. The lambs can't get the gate open from the inside so we are assuming that our sweet lab Kobe pushed it open for them. I looked out the window to see him chasing them around the pasture. He was in heaven! Of course, Jared wasn't home. So, Sunshine and I spent forty-five minutes chasing sheep.
Eleven weeks until the livestock auction:)
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