Marni delivered these twin ewes this morning. She was bred to Gordon,
he is one of our new rams who has a cape flecket pattern.
I bred him to one of my white ewes. This morning when I put them
in a jug they were still wet and could tell that the white lamb had
some interesting coloring but I really didn't have time to admire her...
as I only have so much time in the morning to feed everyone and
get off to work (day job). So this evening I was able to inspect her a little more.
I think she is very interesting. Earlier this morning I just thought "white".
But now that she is all dried off she has a red cast to her birth coat
which I believe is the tan gene that is common with some white sheep,
as her mother has on her legs. But this little girls legs are darker.
Kind of like a katmoget but not really and her face hair is light
in color, but appears darker further down the hair shaft.
Very interest....as least I think so!
The other lamb is solid black with some white spotting on her face.
(i can always use another good black!)
This Dam is one of two of the crossbred ewes that I have. She is
3/4 shetland and 1/4 cormo, although she looks more cormo than shetland.
I bred her to my border cheviot ram. This is her first delivery and
I was really hoping for a ram out of her BUT we got a ewe lamb.
Very nice ewe lamb and she really favors the cormo more than the
border cheviot or shetland. This lamb will be available to a new home
once she has been weaned....sometime in June.
Sunday evening I released all of the ewes and lambs that I had penned.
It was time, most of the lambs are old enough to start eating their own feed.
So I set up the creep feed gate where they had been penned, put in
some medicated lambs pellet and a little cracked corn and they are
all over it.
They are happy, bouncing around and familiar with the whole
barn.
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