Naming rights: Rory Campbell and the lamb he dubbed Wrecking Ball.
Photo by
Megan Fisher
We’ve all heard some great animal names and gone ‘damn, wish I’d thought of that’.
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There is Creampuff the rodeo bull, Horse the Footrot Flats tom cat, Arrrr and Onoitsmymothernlaw the racehorses — now young Rory Campbell is introducing some sheep to the hallowed halls of clever names.
The three-year-old has been helping out with the newborn lambs on his grandparents’ sheep and cropping farm at Invergordon.
His favourite lamb is Wrecking Ball — named for reasons unknown. Wrecking Ball was a premature lamb who needed antibiotics to pull through her first week.
“She was so premmie she didn’t even have teeth yet,” grandfather Eddy Rovers said.
“She’s come on great guns since.”
Wrecking Ball has come along in leaps and bounds (or should we say swings and hits?) to pack on the pounds after getting her brief vet visit.
Wrecking Ball is keeping company with Mushroom and Windmill, also Rory’s work.
Despite our best efforts, the master refuses to reveal his naming thought processes to the media.
Rory is staying on the Rovers’ farm with his parents and five-year-old brother Dylan while their new house is being built.
The children spent their first few years in the United Kingdom and came to Australia in January.
Give us a cuddle: Rory Campbell and Wrecking Ball.
Photo by
Megan Fisher
“They flew with two suitcases and one full of toys,” Mr Rovers said.
“Two weeks in Howard Springs (quarantining) with two kids. Could you imagine?”
Rory’s mother, Kylie Campbell, said he was embracing farm work, collecting firewood, picking up sticks and carting all manner of things in his John Deere ride-on (with tilt-able utility tray and the appearance of ‘coil over suspension’, ‘headlights’ and ‘off-road tyres’).
“It has to be the hardest working vehicle on the farm right now,” Mrs Campbell said.
“The boys are not going to want to move off the farm after all this.”
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