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Louisdog

Joined: 22 Mar 2005
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Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 09 4:17 pm Post subject: What are Cade lambs called where you live?
Not sure if this is livestock or chat really. Just wondered what people call mollies where you live? All I have found so far is Poddy lambs in Australia, this stems from a chat with an American who knows them as Bummer lambs (unless he'd codding me ) Any advance on mollies?

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 09 4:24 pm Post subject:
Mollies here in West Wales too.

Louisdog

Joined: 22 Mar 2005
Posts: 716
Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 09 4:26 pm Post subject:
Ah yep should have said, I learned the term when I lived in W Wales. Perhaps they are different round by here, haven't seen any advertised yet, hmm.

gil
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 09 4:28 pm Post subject:
Orphans. Also 'pet lambs'.

Pilsbury

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 5645
Location: East london/Essex

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 09 4:28 pm Post subject:
ok for townies what are cade lambs?

Louisdog

Joined: 22 Mar 2005
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Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 09 4:32 pm Post subject:
Ones you have to bottle rear. Orphans or where the mother has rejected them.

gil
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 09 4:33 pm Post subject:

Lambs that aren't being brought up by their mother, for one reason or another [death of ewe; ewe refusing to mother the lamb; or ewe having three or more lambs, and only having two teats being unable to feed all the lambs, so you take one or more away and bottle feed]

Main feature is that you have to bottle feed them, which is charming at first, but a complete pain when you have many. Once they are taken from their mother, she won;t want them back, so you have to bottle feed till they can be weaned onto only solids/grass.

Louisdog

Joined: 22 Mar 2005
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Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 09 4:37 pm Post subject:

gil wrote:

LMain feature is that you have to bottle feed them, which is charming at first, but a complete pain when you have many. Once they are taken from their mother, she won;t want them back, so you have to bottle feed till they can be weaned onto only solids/grass.

And then they are a blinking nuisance forevermore as they have no fear of you and think you must be entering their field to feed or pet them! One of my semi-cades jumps up at me like a dog would (well like my unruly mutts do anyway) which is a pain as you get covered in mud or worse

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 09 4:50 pm Post subject:
lambchop,mutton, brisket........... Actually ours are called Baby, Spot and Egg.

Louisdog

Joined: 22 Mar 2005
Posts: 716
Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 09 4:54 pm Post subject:
Cute How did the name Egg come about?! Our original two were called Fly and Mo (FlyMo) as we were planning to keep them as grasscutters, but we ate them in the end so Mutton and brisket would have been more apt

milkmaid

Joined: 04 Jan 2007
Posts: 551
Location: western isles

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 09 5:18 pm Post subject:

she's cute

i've heard sock lambs and they are called pet lambs here
mind you i have 2 ewes who are fantastic mothers and are really easy ,they don't tend to mug me ,when we blue tongued in the village a few of men asked if mine were penned ready and were horridifid to see that they were not pened to jab ,they had some hay and it took a grand total of me and 3 men watching

and 6 minutes to do them ,a lot longer than it took me to do other peoples

these are mine

and a couple of them when they grew up,before the males went to the hills in the sky,with my oh going to feed them only a handfull to keep them hefted

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Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 09 6:01 pm Post subject:

The daughter in the photo chose Baby (who was the lamb we thought would die that night), Small son chose Egg (I call him Eglet as a pet name. "Come under my wing and get a cuddle you little Eglet" and Spot was, well...., spotty.
Baby was unable to stand the first night, and so I stuck her inside my jumper (which was tucked into my trousers) to warm her up and then fed her by penning a ewe to the side of the lambing pen and sticking Baby on the udder forcibly squirting the milk down her mouth to get her to have some colostrum.
Mum then decided she hated the thing and kicked it away, so it was tiny feeds every 2 hrs.

She's the fattest one out the three now. Theyreout during the day, but in at night.

SandraR

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 2346
Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 09 6:25 pm Post subject:
Not sure if it is the normal term used but I was asked if I would like some bottle lambs. Below three of my first four. 1, ram went in the freezer, another ram returned to owner as a pet, the two ewe lambs went on to be great mums and useful to have a 'tame' lamb in the flock.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 09 6:27 pm Post subject:
What breed are the black lambs with the white stripe? They are really sweet.

SandraR

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 2346
Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 09 6:37 pm Post subject:
Zwartbles. This is Annie (with friend ) with less than two weeks to lamb

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