Pictures! Pictures! And a video of bottle-feeding a lamb. :)

[anyjen]

Hello everybody!!

Well, as you may know by now, I'm back from my holidays. I can now reply to comments and posts again.... though I'm still waaaay behind on reading fic. ^^U

If you've posted anything since December 21st and I haven't commented on it, it's likely I haven't been able to find it. You see, Frank has been eating some posts from my f-list

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[imposterable]

OMIGAWWD. *__* sheep..
those pictures ALMOST turned my favorite animal from pig to sheep ;__;

It's a she, right? Are you gonna get another sheep when she grows up? :3

Hmm. She got shiny hooves #w#

[anyjen]

I have more! Wait until I've posted those! XD

Well, my aunt, who lives next door to my parents, has a sheep (a fully grown one, one that isn't very fond of people, I'm afraid), so Beba won't be lonely, and my parents are planning to make her breed sometime and keep her lamb/s, but we won't be buying any more. They're rather expensive (for us) and unless you bring them up since they're lambs they tend to fear people.

They were shiny in that picture because she was fresh out of the bath. You should have seen them when she just got home. They were positively filthy. ^^UUUU

[imposterable]

Lol sorry for the late reply ;__;
Just checked my mail and got over 100 messages (mostly LJ replies) and lol.. yeah. They should really make replies for anything go in the LJ inbox =__=;

Ehh. Lol that's what I usually thought of sheep: they're not fond of humans. Raising animals are expensive themselves, aren't they? Other than obtaining them. But true. It's like getting a puppy while it's young so it'll be more attached to you as it grows up with you.

Niiice. I want to do that if I ever get a dog :P That is, take a picture of it after a bath x) So that means you got to clean them up every day after a walk? That's a lot of work o_o

[anyjen]

Yup. There's the vet visits, and innoculations, and stuff, but the good thing about sheep is that they earn their own money. Every year in the Spring you can sell their wool, and according to what they've told me, after a single year they already cover what you spent buying it in the first place. :)

One more year, and you're actually earning money! Not much for a single sheep, but hey, what were you expecting? XD

There's no animal that will be instantly fond of humans. The younger they are when they're first exposed to people, and the longer they spend with people, the more fond of people they will be. Easy as that. :)

No, if she's been walking on grass or tiled floors she won't get dirty... the problem is when she steps on her own droppings. That's when her hooves get filthy, and when we really need to clean them. :P

[imposterable]

o_o
There's... wow. I really wonder how the vet's place looks like @_@ (really really curious. so much i can't say anymore...)

Ah. But doesn't it take a long time until they grow their wool? I keep imaging a poodle when I think of a lamb with wool o_o;

Haha.. my lil bro just poo-ed in his pants and stinked up the whole floor (bedroom floor). =__=; I totally get what you mean.

[anyjen]

For sheep, usually it's the vet that comes for a visit, though in Beba's case my parents might be able to take them themselves... you see, they've trained her so that she will travel with them in their van, and she's quite happy to lie in the back... tied to a seat and with a diaper on, of course. Otherwise she starts chewing stuff...

It takes a year. And you wouldn't be wrong in thinking about a poodle; poodles and sheep have similar "hair", only, a sheep's thicker anbd grows a bit faster.

[imposterable]

Ohhh.. cool :O
... Beba is officially my role model now *__*

Hmm.. I've been wondering:
If wet, does it puff up like an afro? Cuz my hair does that o_o;