Goodness sakes! First Babysheep was born very underweight and mama sort of wrote her off. Then Babysheep got hyporthermia and almost died. Then her inverted eyelids had to be treated by the vet with stitches. And now Babysheep's I.D. tag has been ripped away from her ear. Perhaps another one of our animals caused it or maybe she got it caught on something. We don't know. What we DO know is that this poor little thing has been through too much already (not to mention Farmer Tom) and we hope the worst of her days are over. On the bright side, she is getting stronger and more robust each day, she plays happily with her siblings and other pen-pals, and her little ear will heal but will always have that gap from the injury. So, identifying her without a tag will be easy. The other way we can tell is how she cries and runs to us whenever we call her name. Here's a picture I took just moments ago after her noon bottle feeding. Apart from those ugly stitches and that gaping hole, she still looks adorably cute. She is now officially Farmer Tom's favorite baby lamb.
