Every year this time, baby lambs hit the ground like rain in our pasture. We went through a few years of showing market lambs in 4-H with my son, and now my youngest, Sarah, is looking forward to her first year in the livestock division.
This photo is of Sarah holding a newborn, apparently stepped on by a ewe by accident. Her little hind leg is broken but well splinted (tongue depressers & duct tape) by Mr. Wonderful. Did I mention he grew up the son of a large animal vet? (read: assistant large animal vet.) Little lamb is on antibiotics and runs around as fast as the other babies in the field happy all the way. Dang they’re cute! We have 5 babies, and I have to add, for a sweet visual, they all fall asleep together in a puppy-pile in the sun.
So in the spirit of livestock/4-H, I thought I would share some vintage livestock and horse images scanned from one of my rare printer catalogs, circa 1920. I’m going to take a leap and suggest that vintage livestock be the new trend in design, decor and apparel. I mean, how awesome would one of these illustrations be enlarged and silkscreened on a throw pillow, t-shirt or made into vinyl wall decals?! (I always thought the farmer image at the very bottom would make for a cool blog header for Mr. Wonderful, you know, should he ever have the need for a blog.)
Click on the images below to access the FREE PDF files. If you make something with any of them, I would LOVE to see it!
Oh.. thank you so much ! Perfect timing for a farmgirl project I am working on !!
Awwww, she is adorable! Thanks a bunches for the graphics, I would love to do the cow in the kitchen, the ideas are flowing now!
Ooh! I love spring with lambs. We had newborns too and they’re so great to watch, especially when they bounce around.
That lamb has to be one of the cutest animals I’ve ever seen!
Cathe,
Thanks for these beautiful graphics. The cow reminds me of the cows at Foskitt’s Dairy Farm, just down street where I grew up!
Awesome,
Donna
These are terrific! Thank you!!!
Just wanted to say thank you very much for ALL of the free graphics you so generously share! I really appreciate it!!
awww…. poor little lambkin. I’m glad she’s okay.
Mr. WONDERFUL is ALL THAT! {And so is the Mrs.!} These are FABULOUS! How…..did…..YOU…. know!?! *sob!* I love THESE! Thanks for the MOST excellent share!!!!
I love these! I have three kids that are all showing market hogs in the county fair in March. I have some ideas for their thank you baskets using these!
Lacy
Oh, I wanna cuddle that little thing! So cute!!!
Very cool images! I had 4-H livestock, too! (Sheep, pigs, horses) I was even an Allstar and represented California on a citizenship shortcourse in Washington DC, about a hundred or so years ago! I knew it… we are kindred spirits!!!
*Love!* Thanks so much for sharing these images. As a staff member of a Wyoming agriculture newspaper, and as a mother-to-be envisioning a farming/ranching theme for our nursery, I can see all kinds of possibilities for these downloads. 🙂 – Christy
Lambies are so sweet! My father when he was young had a pet bottle lamb that followed him around like a puppy and would bleat at the back door when he went inside until he came back out.
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Absolutely LOVE vintage livestock images esp horses….thanks for sharing!!……..My daughters just completed their final year in 4H showing horses……best of luck to your daughter as she begins her 4H show season
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Just something about these images make me smile! I am sure they will end up used at some point in the not too far future. Thanks for sharing and I love the picture of Sarah and the lamb. So sweet.
Thank you!!
LOVE the Gloustershire Old Spot Hog and that leaping Bronco on the first sheet! Thank you!
Perfect for collages, thank you!
Being a farm girl myself, I have a great appreciation for these images. They are wonderful!!! Thank you!
Thank you so much for these images- I just saved the sheet with the individual animals. I love old catalogues, and also advertisements. Both the wording and the illustrations can be so hilariously funny, but also kind of endearing too. I dunno, they’re in a class of their own really. Lambs are fun to watch, but hard work too- friends here are all approaching lambing time, another fortnight and they’ll be snowed under with lambs!
Cathe, the little lamb in the arms of your daughter is such a sweet image! The livestock clip art is great too. You always have such great things to share!
After reading your Shrinky Dink post, I’m thinking these farm animals would make great jewelry. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! These are very pretty 🙂
Fantastic images and I will make great use of them for a few projects I have planned.
Thanks
Perfect! I love the vintage farm look. Thanks for sharing the pdf’s. 🙂
I don’t know how I missed these, they’re great! Thanks !
I love your livestock images! Is there any way I could get them in single images to resize? Thank u, Shelley
Hi Shelley,
They are in vector form in the PDF file. You should be able to place or open the file in your editing software and enlarge to whatever size needed. I just don’t have the available time to separate each image.
Love the vintage livestock – but are there any goats or swine??
Very cool images!
Just love your graphics. I am the wife of an Ag Teacher, aka Free Ag Teacher’s Assistant, Sponsor, Driver, Fitter for Shows and Fair Mom. Both of our children, as well as my husband and myself were in 4-H and FFA. I am a the Bookkeeper for our Junior Livestock Sale for our County Fair, and like to use graphics such as these in my correspondence with the Buyer’s and Exhibitors. Oh and yes, I am an Elementary Teacher and Instructional Coach too, so I use agriculture in my classrooms every chance I get.