Something I've never experienced before

[Jimbuna]

Went with the wife, granddaughter and her parents to a farm in Northumberland where visitors are encouraged to interract and feed the animals.

The weather was warm and sunny with just a slight breeze from time to time so seeing all the animals that were mostly located in an outdoor setting wasn't a problem.

What I wasn't prepared for (see bottom two photos) was coming across a five-legged lamb.

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[Skybird]

The pic with the owl - is that you, Jim?

[Jimbuna]

Yep, I'm the handsome bastid in the picture :O:

[ET2SN]

What I wasn't prepared for (see bottom two photos) was coming across a five-legged lamb.



The extra limb is there to hold the pot of mint jelly.

:Kaleun_Salivating:

[Commander Wallace]

I have never even heard of a 5 legged animal or lamb let alone seen one.



Looks like you and your family had a good day and made some memories.
Awesome. :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

[Skybird]

Yep, I'm the handsome bastid in the picture :O:
I ask because I could not believe it. In the picture, your face bears a stunning resemblance to my paternal grandfather, even the glasses. He was only a little corpulent, you are slimmer. But in the face - a moment I was shocked. I've noticed it before on pictures, but never so striking. I hope you have no wooden leg and no glass eye and you do not miss half a lung, else my philosophical world view would be seriously challenged now... :)

[stork100]

Nice pictures. Looks like a grand outing. Something to remember with fondness for all concerned. The five legged ones look happy enough. Good for them.

[mapuc]

As I'm one who want to know I made a search to see how common it is

Here is what I found

Five-legged lambs are extremely rare with only one in a million lambs being born like that. On a farm in the UK's Morpeth, a lamb was born with an extra leg that protruded from its left side

And about this lambs in picture

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lamb-five-legs-uk-northumberland-b2031718.html

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The extra limb is there to hold the pot of mint jelly.

:Kaleun_Salivating:

Never thought of that :)

I have never even heard of a 5 legged animal or lamb let alone seen one.



Looks like you and your family had a good day and made some memories.
Awesome. :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

Always a positive and enjoyable experience when we're out with our only grandchild. She was three on Thursday 26th :up:

I ask because I could not believe it. In the picture, your face bears a stunning resemblance to my paternal grandfather, even the glasses. He was only a little corpulent, you are slimmer. But in the face - a moment I was shocked. I've noticed it before on pictures, but never so striking. I hope you have no wooden leg and no glass eye and you do not miss half a lung, else my philosophical world view would be seriously challenged now... :)

All my body parts are still in their original places but I'm now fast approaching 65 years of age and with it that has brought a weight loss of a little over a stone in the previous twelve months :salute:

[Jimbuna]

As I'm one who want to know I made a search to see how common it is

Here is what I found



And about this lambs in picture

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lamb-five-legs-uk-northumberland-b2031718.html

Markus

That's the one Markus and it was Whitehouse Farm we visited. We had no idea of the lambs existence/locality until we saw it.

[Commander Wallace]

Never thought of that :)

Always a positive and enjoyable experience when we're out with our only grandchild. She was three on Thursday 26th :up:

All my body parts are still in their original places but I'm now fast approaching 65 years of age and with it that has brought a weight loss of a little over a stone in the previous twelve months :salute:


One stone ? A big congratulations, James. Do you feel any better with the weight loss ? A happy belated birthday to your granddaughter as well. No doubt, she is the apple of your eye and I'm sure Ann feels the same way.



:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up::Kaleun_Applaud:

[Reece]

Yep, I'm the handsome bastid in the picture :O:
Oh the life form on the glove!! For a moment I thought . . . Nah!! :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

One stone ? A big congratulations, James. Do you feel any better with the weight loss ? A happy belated birthday to your granddaughter as well. No doubt, she is the apple of your eye and I'm sure Ann feels the same way.



:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up::Kaleun_Applaud:

Cheers on the congratulations matey and with regards to the wight loss...yes, a little but I was never that much overweight really.

[Eichhörnchen]

The extra limb is there to hold the pot of mint jelly.

:Kaleun_Salivating:
:har:

Very strange, but it's an extra leg of lamb at any rate so it could catch on

[ET2SN]

The pic with the owl - is that you, Jim?

I thought it was an old picture from when LBJ tried Owl Farming on the White House lawn. :D

What Jim isn't telling us is that the farm is just across the meadow from Windscale. :O: :o

[Jimbuna]

Oh the life form on the glove!! For a moment I thought . . . Nah!! :hmmm:

I thought it was an old picture from when LBJ tried Owl Farming on the White House lawn. :D

Cheeky blighters :)

[Kapitan]

A 5 legged lamb................Chernobyl contamination is alive and well then :har:

[Jimbuna]

A 5 legged lamb................Chernobyl contamination is alive and well then :har:

:haha: