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Kyle Farms All Natural Lamb

A Day in the Life of an All Natural Lamb
(Avon, New York)

Escapee Lambs!

So I went driving yesterday on a grey Saturday, and went to see our lambs out on pasture with their mothers. We have two large pastures full of ewes and lambs right now, one side older lambs that have been processed (tail docked/castrated/ear notched) and one side baby lambs that haven't been handled yet.  Well as I may have mentioned before our pastures all have wooden hurdle jumps in the fence lines for access by the Genesee Valley Hunt Club.  Apparently our ewes have discovered the joy of bounding over the hurdles as well, and of course lambs are amazing escape artists themselves.  I managed to capture some pictures of a couple escapee lambs enjoying their freedom as I was driving around.  There is almost no purpose in trying to replace the lambs in the pastures as it ends up being a race up and down the fenceline, stressing the lambs as you go, only for them to bound right out again as soon as you leave. 

Caught red handed

Anne
11:39 AM EDT
 

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