At last she has a name - Sophie. As a child my mum always wanted to name one of our pets Sophie and she was always over ruled. However, I did promise her jokingly that if Camilla had a white girl, we would call it Sophie for her. Seeing as mum was here on the morning of the birth we decided that we would honour her wish. When we thought she was a boy we had considered calling her Jenson after the racing driving which seemed adpted with our motor racing backgrounds. However, Jenson is now Sophie, but I am not sure anyone had told her as she is currently racing around the paddock - and I am sure she keeps trying to improve her lap time.
The vet did have to come out to Camilla the day after the birth. He did an internal inspection and found the placenta had come away, so we can only imagine that the buzzards, jackdaws or crows took the afer birth. That is not usual, but it would not surprise me as we are surrounded by wildlife. The vet also said that Camilla was not overly full of milk and that the baby felt light so we should supplement her feed with some bottle milk. So after a quick dash to Mole Valley Farmers to get some ewe replacement milk, we gave Sophie a top up drink. She was not overly thisrtsy and we did not give too much as we wanted her to stay hungry enough to keep sucking on mum and encourage milk.
Four days on Sophie is putting on weight nicely and is far more interested in her mum's milk that any bottle I have and seems to be be feeding fine now. The purple spray marks are fading to pink and her umbical cord has dried up and fallen off. She is so cute.
Stu, mum and myself have created a second paddock for the girls and now they are enjoying their new grazing patch. Last night we had loads of rain, but still want more for the grass please.
Next thing to sort is a mini pen for the shearer who is coming on Monday evening.
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