We've named the triplets!

I started to help Tabatha with her lambs the minute they were born with a nice warm lunch of colostrum, making sure that they had all had a fair share......... then a bottle of milk between them just to keep them topped up every 3-4 hours until I know that mum is coping....... It usually takes a day or two for lambs to understand  what the bottle is, so that we can stop picking them up and "making" them take it....... All three girls understood by the third feed yesterday, only 6 hours after being born and today they are pestering me by butting my knees for milk every time I go near..... its lovely... they've not quite beaten the record, that was Curley Hamster...... I never did pick her up... and it was only 2 hours after she was born when I offered her a bottle........ and she's still a gannet!

.......... oh yes... and we have names............ The first born and heaviest lamb is Charlotte, of course its Charlie already, she spends much of her time sleeping and doesn't even bother to get up for her share of milk.... the second has a really pretty face, with beautiful fluffy white wool round her eyes... she's called Davinia, as promised, no one has ever named a lamb after our vet before... so its a first... and last but not least is our little teeny weeny... who is one of the wickest lambs I've ever seen.. she's going to be trouble and she's called Ellie! She's already turning into a favourite ..... a proper poppet and full of character! 

More pics later........