Say hello to Minty

nope he’s not the cute little puppy you might have been expecting….. but a few day old lamb rejected by his mother.
A work colleagues husband runs the farm and Claire brings the occasional distressed/ill lamb into work. Minty has settled in well, I’ve just bottle fed him and he’s now snoozing!

Anyone else have any interesting animals wandering around their office?

Awwww 🥹

Im sure Bert will love him to bits too

cruel name 😀

Please keep this wee beast as a pet, and don’t let him get eaten a few months from now…..

My old office was the best – it had an outside window onto our fishing/fire protection lodge.

I had a peanut butter addicted squirrel that ransacked my desk a few times when I left the windows open in summer. A crow that would tap on the window demanding food, and Dave the Canadian goose that loved cornflakes. Dave often walked through the lab from outside to my office and would sit and wait for me.

For some reason I’ve been moved ‘over the road’ into the factory with an upstairs windowless office……..

@codybrennan

Please keep this wee beast as a pet, and don’t let him get eaten a few months from now….

Unfortunately this is the reality of farming/food supply.
Last year’s lamb (Larry) that we also cuddled and hand fed is no longer with us…..

If I had a garden and didn’t have Bert I would have Minty as a four legged lawnmower, nobody else at work is in a position to have him either.
If any STWer wants to adopt/have/buy Minty I can get a price from Claire. He could be the STW mascot.

They’re very cute, use to live feeding the pet lambs at my Grandad’s farm. Some he’d keep and they run up to you when adults as when they seen you in the field.

Others weren’t kept but I guess they went to a warm home.

Cute!

Others weren’t kept but I guess they went to a warm home.

Presumably an oven. Then a stomach. Both nice and warm 🙂

Can I borrow him?

I need a model for a keyring I’m planning to make.

Wanted to start the bidding at 50p but Fin said £1 as she wants to round it up.

I’ll get my coat

Well done you, it’s quite a task.

Any chance someone with a garden could take them?

Unfortunately this is the reality of farming/food supply.

Reality yes (sadly), necessity no.

Any chance someone with a garden could take them?

Need a bloody big garden.

cruel name 😀

The chickens I had growing up were called sage, parsley, thyme, rosemary….

The cockerel was Paxo.
Then Paxo 2
Then Paxo 3

etc.

Tis the reality of meat. That wee fella will make a fine roast.

“Unfortunately this is the reality of farming/food supply.

Last year’s lamb (Larry) that we also cuddled and hand fed is no longer with us….”

I know, I know. Its why I don’t eat meat any more. But I appreciate what you’re doing for the wee fella for the short time he’ll be on this earth.

It’s a herd animal and will need to be bouncing around with other ovine creatures when older. Very cute.

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@codybrennan

I know, I know. Its why I don’t eat meat any more. But I appreciate what you’re doing for the wee fella for the short time he’ll be on this earth

I should really be a vegetarian – I absolutely adore all animals, I even rescue worms from puddles. It was great having Minty in the office. But I have a disconnect between the cuteness and marvel of nature of Minty and his wobbly legs and the meat that ends up on my plate. I know what that disconnect involves for the animals but I’m in denial. I expect it’s one thing I’ll regret about my life.

Anyway Minty has gone home with his ‘mum’, she’s happy he’s been feeding all day. He was the runt of a triplet and why the mother abandoned him.

If I showed these to my wife, minty would inevitably be living here by the end of the weekend! We have myriad rescues….dog, cats, horses, chickens, ducks…..

Looks major smug in that last pic (the lamb)

This is kind of the Singletrack office sheep. Say ‘hi’ to Maxicola. She was a born in the field behind my old house. We had six of our own sheep, but Maxi’s mum leapt the fence from the moors, collapsed, birthed a sheep and then died a week later. We bottlefed her and she got on very well with Jess the dog and Jess was always trying to sneak her from the garden into the house. As I wasn’t going to be able to look after her every day, due to pesky work and stuff, Singletrack Ross, a keeper of his own menagerie, adopted her. She is now the size of a medium fridge…

🫶🏻🥰

She

does she want a boyfriend? / do you want a flock?

That’s nice chipps.

does she want a boyfriend?

You can be arrested for that sort of thing.

Minty update – he’s doing well and has been adopted by another mummy sheep….

and also looking for adoption is ‘Wonky’!
A little lady sheep who was sat on by her mum hence why her legs are bent. Mum then abandoned her.😕

She enjoyed her day in the office snuggled in a jumper under the desk. She might be back in again tomorrow.

Will wonky ever be, er, not wonky?

I mean will her legs straighten as she grows?

Poor little thing but looks so happy in the first pic. What will happen to her?

Great news about Minty though.

The wonky legs might straighten out. We have a couple every year with wonky legs. Most get better with little intervention. Some of the worse ones I will splint and wrap and they get better eventually. Sometimes they are wonky due to an infection in the joints and cannot be fixed. They can happily go on with wonky legs without much bother though as they know no different. Unfortunately there is only one place that a wonky sheep will end up, and that is the freezer/oven.

Writing this while giving a couple of ewes some time to get on and lamb. There was a twin with feet showing and a single getting itchy as I left the shed an hour ago. Also got a few lambs to bottle feed before bed.

That first photo of Wonky practically has its own soundtrack! I can hear its little bleats in my head. 🥰

Lucky it survived having its mother lying on top of it, it could so easily have ended up as lunch for a fox and a buffet for ravens.

Need a wool revival.

Wonky. 🤗

Will wonky ever be, er, not wonky?

Look in any field of sheep and half of them will be wonky in some way!