Guys! Guess what?! Fans of Lamby will be ecstatic!

If you don't know about Lamby, here you go:
Lamby comes home
Lamby update
Another Lamby update

We found a 'husband' for Lamby, and she is officially staying here to become a mama! ♥

We were on the fence for quite some time, leaning first one way, then the other.

We love our Lamby, but she was purchased with the goal in mind to use her for meat in the fall.

Before you decide we are awful people, realize that we believe it is much kinder and healthier to eat meat we have raised in a kind, loving, and natural environment, where the animal can grow and play and live a normal life, rather than buying meat from the grocery store that has been factory farmed.

I was actually shopping around on Facebook the other day for lambs. Lamby would be ready to butcher in the fall, and we would need another lamb to start growing, so we would have one ready every 6 months.
You butcher at about a year old.

I asked the lady I bought Lamby from if she would have any ready to go in a month or so.
She private messaged me with a lamb she was not advertising for sale, but that she could be persuaded to part with right now. I almost told her no, because I wasn't quite ready, and she was asking for more than was economical to spend on a feeder lamb.

Then she told me what kind of lamb he was. A Jacob's Four-Horn Sheep.

Now, I don't have photos of adult Jacob's sheep, and I generally do not use photos that are not my own, so go ahead and do an image search of these fantastic sheep! Go ahead, I'll wait...

You see! They are awesome!

These are a very healthy, disease-resistant breed of sheep, and are still pretty rare. They have a cool background story about how they are descendant from Jacob's sheep when he lived as a shepherd with Laban, working for the right to marry Rachel in Biblical times. (No one knows if they are, indeed, descendant from these sheep, but it's still pretty cool.)
 
Anyway, the more I thought about it, the more I wanted this little dude. I talked it over with my husband and we decided that rather than continually buying feeder lambs, we would breed our own! So, just like that, Lamby is off the menu, and this awesome little dude is joining the family! ♥

He is doing very well, after adjusting to living here. I supposed it was somewhat of a shock, being moved from inside this lady's house, being raised like a baby, to living in a pen of goats, who are, quite frankly, pretty rude. He got over his homesickness though, and is doing fantastic. He has two little horns growing on top of his head, and you can feel two little bumps on the sides of his head where the third and fourth horn will grow.

Lamby is not really impressed so far.

She is not keen on this little guy who is stealing attention from her 'mama' and who gets milkies from bottles while her 'mama', for some unknown and cruel reason, will not give her milkies anymore. 'Mama' says she is too big, but she heartily disagrees.

So, Lamby pouts. She also chews on the car just to show 'Mama' how she feels about this.

We have high hopes for this little Jacob's ram, (still unnamed), and Lamby.

They will be lovingly cared for while at the same time providing us with a source of healthy, humanely-raised meat.

Thanks for reading! Have a fabulous day! ♥ If you have any name ideas for this little guy, please drop them in the comments!

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