Sharing is Important

There has been an amazing turnaround in O3's demeanor! He has suddenly taken to the bottle with gusto, sucking perfectly to drain his own and often most of the others' milk bottles! He is ALIVE!

No longer the lazy boy, skulking in the corner he is the first to the door when humans arrive, he mountaineers accross bodies lying on the floor and is sniffing everything that arrives to drink in his experiences of the world!

Meanwhile O4 had an adventure last night - he was borrowed - abducted by aliens it must have felt like - who took him away in a car to a sheep somewhere far off who wanted to be his mother.  Unfortunately for the sheep he was too well bonded to his mates in the polytunnel, so he came home in the morning and is now wondering whether it was all just a dream.

Sharing livestock is quite common here - there is a bull share scheme for the islands to cut down on the cost of having your own bull. Unfortunately the fella who arrived last year, has not produced the goods now spring has arrived. He was apparently young and inexperienced and now at calving time the crofters have been left with not a lot of bang for their buck. :/

Back in the polytunnel , while sniffing is still popular, licking is now also the done thing.  The lambs will toddle around, investigating their surroundings, often with a little pink tongue poking out to catch any scents in the air, or perhaps at the ready for closer inspection of things.