This was one of those special moments at Struan Farm, the kind that make me so happy to be alive and in Piopio!
On Saturday I went for a walk in the Cottage Paddock amongst the ewes and lambs, slowly and quietly with camera in hand. I wanted to try to capture the lambs playing, since they do silly things. As I walked down a slope toward the pond, this is what I saw:
Twin lambs, cuddling, one white and one black! I know, it sounds like a Michael Jackson song, doesn't it? We haven't had black lambs on the farm before, so I'm seriously excited about this.
We don't usually name the non-pet lambs, but we may need to make an exception for this one. I'm thinking maybe Oreo Cookie, or Chocolate Chip, what do you think?
And when I looked around the paddocks a bit more, I saw that we have two black lambs:
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