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Introducing More Lambs

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  We have two more sets of colored twins. These are both fathered by Poseidon. Poseidon The mom’s are Fiona and her niece Nuala two more of our Coopworth X Blue-faced Leicester ewes from Deer Run Sheep Farm. 100_7309 100_7310 We are really excited that they each had 1 ram and 1 ewe. Two more possible stud rams for a special spinner’s flock, and 2 ewes for us to keep. 100_7311 100_7312 100_7313 It is  going to be fun to watch what develops from the Wensleydale influence on the BFL. Should be some more very uniquely pretty and soft colored fleeces.

Busy Day

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  101_0396cropped It was a very eventful day here at Sheeps and Peeps. In fact it was so busy that we didn’t get a chance to take many pictures. One ewe delivered last evening and four today adding six more lambs to the flock – 3 ewes, 3 rams. One of the very few pics that was taken  is shown above: Blackberry, our Cotswald X Border Leicester ewe with her twins. We always eagerly await for her lambs and are never disappointed. She has given us lambs with beautiful wool when bred with Hercules, our Wensleydale  X Coopworth ram.    hercules_web_pic2 In fact, we still have her first ram lamb and we use him to produce more lambs with beautiful fleeces: Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon’s fleece 606_fleece_mar_08~0  Poseidon and Blackberry have given us two ewe lambs: Cassidy  720_reserve_champ_bwf And Siar 821 So of course we were very excited when she had two more black lambs this year that we will be watching closely as they grow. One is a ram who should be an excellent stud for someone’s spinner flock, the other a ewe that we will undoubtedly keep in our flock for her fleece and future lambs. More pictures to follow of the rest of the lambs born today and of the triplets who graduated into a bigger pen.