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Posted by: Trevor
June 14, 2025
Every so often, one of our sheep moms just doesn't accept her newborn lamb. It is sad when that happens, but it is a reality of raising animals. When a lamb is orphaned, we need to raise the lamb ourselves. Bottle by bottle, every few hours.
In Benny's case, it wasn't so much that his mom didn't accept him --- rather, it is that he was born healthy except for a back leg that doesn't work properly.
It probably happened inside his mom's womb --- while he was growing inside her, his leg was mispositioned. So he came out with a bit of a limp. And his mom just instinctively knew he might not make it.
This is Benny, one of our beautiful orphaned lambs...
So Benny became a "bottle lamb" --- one we have had to raise by hand ourselves. Benny is gorgeous, and he has done really well.
When Benny got big enough, we took him outside for a walk on the grass. In the video below, you can see he is inspecting the grass, sniffing at it, thinking about it, wondering what all the various plant smells mean.
When sheep smell the grass, they are "seeing" with their noses --- interpreting dozens of different plant smells, determining which ones they like and which ones they don't. Sheep will browse --- meaning they can eat both grass and also twigs and bark and branches and leaves --- a whole assortment of plants.
They will also self-medicate. They will instinctively know, by smell, which plants they need, searching out the ones that are necessary in the moment.
They can also smell the sugar content in the grass itself --- which varies by the hour. When it rains, do you know how the sweet smell of grass fills the air? Similarly, in the morning, before the sun has come all the way up, the grass has a higher sugar content. Sheep sense this, and will time their feeding to coincide with the sugar "spikes" during the day.
Here is a short video of Benny:
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