Robert Johnson’s guitar licks raised suspicion about whether he was playing fair.  Lamb #701, the first born this winter*, has been growing at such a rate that I was wondering what deals she might have made.  It turns out poaching is part of her strategy.  In the first photo, her mother is at the left, and she’s nursing from someone else.

Even as the ewe tries to walk away, fat black lamb is still hanging on.

Sheep are generally pretty assertive about pushing off lambs who aren’t their own, but 701 has perfected the art of capitalizing on distraction.  Persistence is also part of her strategy.  I’m very curious to see what kind of mother she’ll be when she has lambs of her own.

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*Technically, the lamb that Bravo ate was firstborn.