Nugget, at 1 week old, checks out the Belfast Farmers' Market on March 30.
Heide Purinton-Brown of Toddy Pond Farm talks with a customer at the market while Nugget snoozes in a sling bag.
Nugget the lamb nestles in Heide Purinton-Brown's arms.
Avery Sagaas, 3, pets Nugget at the Belfast Farmers' Market.
A closeup of Nugget, whose Yoda ears and woolly face give him an "almost a combed, windblown look," says his surrogate dad, Greg Purinton-Brown.
Purinton-Brown watches Nugget at the Belfast Farmers' Market. The lamb was rejected by its mother at Toddy Pond Farm in Monroe after she'd given birth to triplets. A sheep has two teats, and Nugget's siblings were quicker to nurse.
Purinton-Brown hands Nugget to Karna Olsson to hold while Purinton-Brown helps customers at the market. She and her husband are bottle-feeding the lamb, and his presence as they do work and run errands has delighted Mainers who've met him.
Nugget has imprinted on his surrogate parents. "He only gets upset in the house if we are not around," Heide Purinton-Brown said.
When Nugget's owners made a final attempt to see whether his mother would accept him, the ewe nuzzled him and then booted him away with her nose. "We have become his flock," Purinton-Brown said.
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