Lambs feast on these grass seeds and its fat gives them energy. They are also known as animated oat, wild oats, or sterile oats.
Seeing a pasture abundant with these delicate gives my heart peace!
Lambs loving the pasture and hanging out together as a flock. It is hard to identify which one is the leader, but we’ve been told that maybe this flock has more than one. If a friendly or non-skittish lamb was a leader, we would have had a higher chance of getting closer to them. But that’s not the case this year.
15 responses to “Grass with seeds: wispy & beautiful”
Nice photography. Nice flowers, grass seeds and animated ots. Nice feeding lambs pic.
Thank you. Raj! You are definitely journeying with us on our lamb project journey. The journey will end at the end of this month as the lambs will be headed to the meat factory. These types of lambs are raised for meat production, so the kids are getting firsthand experience of agriculture business. It’s sad but a valuable learning experience of how we get our food.
Very you have getting agriculture business learning. Iam so happy. You always interested blog written. How’s both kid?
You tack care my friend!
Where’s meat factory? It own lambs farm? How all they’re?
Meat factory is about 3 hours away from where we live. We won’t be accompanying the lambs there although we could tour the facility if we want.
The lambs are doing great and feasting at the pasture. But the pasture is drying up from the warm weather and much of the edible pasture is getting eaten quickly by the lambs.
Iam so happy ,you answer my question. Now psture is dried & warm weather pasture is much edible lambs quickly eaten .
Thank you so much you share details me. How’s are kids?
Happy to share!
Kids are doing good. 🙂
Thanks, Esther.
When I read your comment about the nature of the lambs’ leader, my first thought was, “Little lamb, who led thee?” That’s a reworking of a line from William Blake’s charming poem titled The Lamb. It’s short enough that it’s easily memorized; the kids might enjoy it.
Thanks for the recommendation! It would be a good poem to associate with our lamb project. I remember reading William Blake in college and have his poetry book.
The oats are very delicate looking.
You can’t even see the stems in the picture! So beautiful and delicate, but they are prickly on clothes and socks. We find them on clothes even after a wash and dry.
Wow – they sure are clingy! This new weed I found in the yard this year is clingy and I pulled a handful, then found some of it hanging onto my pants leg. I’m scared to pull weeds – there is a mouse in the yard and it runs across the yard, disappearing into the weeds or bushes whenever I go back there. Eek!
Oh boy, I would be scared too! I am terrified of mice and do not want them puttering around me. When I lived in nyc, we had a mouse problem and they’d come out of the stove and run into the bathroom. I’d get goosebumps just walking down the hallway to get to my room. I could hear some in the walls. Totally gross!
That would do me in Esther! My former co-worker had multiple mice, mostly in her bedroom and was catching several every morning. She’d hear them running in the middle of the night and empty the traps every morning – sorry, not for me!