Monday, 8 March 2010

Lambing not so live

Ok, so your a BBC programme executive thinking of new programmes to inflict on the great unwashed.

You've done Springwatch, Autumnwatch, Sealwatch, Humblewatch, Odditywatch, Bigcat diary and Driving around in the Kenya national game reserves as a Cheetah toilet....watch.

What can we do now....I know Lambing live.... where we get Bumble Humble (no offence but as sharp as a sack of wet mice...) to present from a farm in Wales all week on the annual lambing season.

How can it fail? A farmer who owns upwards of 800 head of sheep all of which are about to drop their 2010 offspring must be able to provide at least two lambs per night over 5 days, the odds are good.....Except all in the shed were lying down snoozing or eating for a whole hour last night.

Lets analyse this..... and Mr. Sheep Farmer did warn them about it, most sheep give birth in the wee small hours of the night. His rationale for this, and it makes perfect sense to me, was that lambs born at that time of the night then have all the next day to get on their feet, get a belly full of milk and strengthen up to face the long nights of their first days of life to come. Yep nature got that right. Pity the BBC did not think of that when they programmed this extravaganza to its 8 o clock in the evening slot. There will be plenty of recorded highlights from the night before........
Lambing not so live anyone?

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