Clara was given a little Shetland bottle lamb this spring. Clara gets the job of bottle feeding him raw milk from our cows.
He is such a cute little thing and they have been tagging around together for the past month. This picture was taken a few days after we got him. They had been playing so hard all day and she sat down outside the greenhouse while I was working in there. The next thing I see is her sleeping and little “Lamb Chop” curled up next to her. He loves to follow you wherever you go.
We will be getting a few more lambs when they are ready to be weaned so that we can put some grass fed lamb in the freezer this coming winter/spring. I want to have them sheared first so I can have the lovely Shetland wool. I will have to get my niece to teach me how to spin.
I know it is a bit hard to picture eating him right now; but we explained to Clara right from Day 1 that we will be eating him some day. She really isn’t bothered by it at all. Every once in awhile she even calls him “Pork Chop” or “Veil Chop” by mistake. This 4 year old little girl really knows her cuts of meat 
He has started to become a bit troublesome since he won’t stay in the woven wire fence because he is too small. I caught him eating my rosemary in the greenhouse one day and tried to chase him out and he ran away dragging my poor plant behind him. Matt said that we could always market him as pre-seasoned lamb if he is that partial to rosemary. He has since been confined to a small chicken tractor that we now lovingly refer to as the “lamb tractor”. He gets moved every day just like the chickens and hopefully in the next couple of weeks he will finally be big enough to stay where he belongs.
Tags: grass fed lamb, Grassfed, Missouri Raw Milk, Raw Milk
