Sheep

Every year at this time I create a Cast of Characters for the Farm Club members. So I took sheep photos today. Here are some of them:

I started before chore time in the morning and had to chase all the sheep out of the barn. They weren’t too happy about missing breakfast.

And they don’t like the deep mud so they all stayed on the cement that Dan poured behind the barn this summer.

This is Janis.

Mud Ranch’s Foxglove. She is a lilac ewe.

Alice.

One of the 2016 lambs, Virginia.

Another lamb, Cindy.

This is Windy Acres Bronagh, another lilac ewe.

Bide a wee Buster, and March ram lamb.

Ears.

While I was taking photos, my DIL was throwing the ball for the puppies, Sawyer and Finn..

Ginny ended up with their ball.

 

More Sheep View at BSG

Sheep aren’t the only fiber animals at Black Sheep Gathering.

The Angora goat show was on Saturday. But it’s mostly about sheep.

It’s not always easy to get a good photo of sheep when they are in small pens.

This is a Shetland ram.

Blue-faced Leicester.

This sheep posed nicely.

Here is a Jacob look-alike, at least from the spots. No Jacob has ears that big.

The Young Flock competition is on Saturday at the end of all the other shows and there is a special prize for the best Young Flock of the whole show. A young flock is made up of two ewe lambs and one ram lamb from a single breeder.

I had the Jacob young flock in the competition.

Sheep seen in the vendor hall.

Look at these beautiful curls on a Navajo-churro lamb fleece.

Speaking of curls, this spectacular 12″ fleece is on this…

…Teeswater sheep.

Another Morning & More Sheep Photos

This morning I was going to take three sheep to be shorn at a friend’s house. These three were born at the State Fair in July last year and I didn’t want to shear them at our early February shearing. So I went out to take photos of the ram so that I’d have photos in full fleece for registration paperwork. Then I got carried away with other sheep portraits.This is the 9 month old ram. He needs a name.This is Meridian Nash. These rams have the same sire so I don’t need both. I think this one will be for sale.Puddleduck Ringo is also for sale. I have used him for two seasons and he needs to move on.Meridian Rotor. Isn’t this a beautiful stylish ewe lamb? She was born a month before everyone else because the ram lambs weren’t weaned soon enough. Too bad I don’t know her sire. Her very cute baby pictures with her brother are in this post.Lamb in early morning light. Meridian Vanessa x Meridian Rotor.BFL-cross lamb. Love those BFL faces.I’m keeping this lilac lamb. Mud Ranch’s Foxglove x Meridian Nash.Not sheep, but the sunflowers Across the Road.

 

More New Sheep

In the last post I mentioned the new sheep that I got from Puddleduck Farm in Oregon. But there were only two in those photos. There were actually nine sheep in the trailer. I had intended to get a ram and two yearling ewes. It’s a long story but I ended up with 6 more ewes of various ages.   Puddleduck Amber Puddleduck Cassandra Puddleduck Celilo Puddleduck Cherry Puddleduck Page Here is the ram, Puddleduck Ringo.Sheep know their sheep friends. They are in the pasture with Ringo and about a dozen of my ewes, but these six stick together.While I’m introducing sheep this is Kenleigh’s Isadora and her lamb, Isabelle, who was born at the fair and will be staying here.

Reflections & Faces

I took these photos a couple of weeks ago after our one and only January storm.

Dina

Lola

Hot Lips

Stephanie

Faulkner

Amaryllis