Catching up on the pet lambs

Kleiner and Deigo at the beginning ...

The pet lambs - Blueberry, Deigo and Kleiner are enjoying relative freedom in the woolshed paddock.  They are now weaned but still like to come for a chat and a cuddle.

Blueberry use to walk with Alice to the bush every morning and was there to meet her off the bus every night

Alice showing off her 'Student of the Week' certificate to Blueberry and the heifers

 





The heifers checking out Blueberry





 

Alice took Blueberry to the school pet day at the end of September. She rode in style in the back of the car.  The children are broken up into 'pre-school', junior and senior.  They had to walk into the ring and the judges asked them a few questions about their lamb and how they look after it.  They then have to walk around the ring, through some poly-rods, and at the other end, their lamb was held whilst they walked away and then had to call it.  They were then awared on - Rearing, Leading and Calling, with an overall winner in each section.

Katja, Blueberry and Alice on the way to Pet Day

Alice in leading Blueberry around the ring

Junior kids all getting excited about ribbon time!

Alice and Blueberry got 2nd prize in the calling

  Alice competed in the Junior group, and as she won a ribbon, could have gone onto the Group Day at Te Kauwhata, but we decided against this year, but Alice is keen to give it a go next year. 

 

Also as part of Pet Day, they do a number of indoor activities such as 'Sand Saucer', 'Wildflower Display', 'Buttonhole' and some art work.  Alice got second with her poem.  All in all she was pretty excited about her results ... and so were we.

Alice got 3rd in teh New Entrant Sand Saucer

Alice got first in the New Entrant Wildflower display - native clematis in a calf feeder with flax leaves

And now ...

The three lambs not so long ago ...

The lambs will stay in the holding paddock until weaning, and then might find themselves with lots of other lambs.  Blueberry will get shorn and go with all the other girls down the road.