Good Friday saw the first of my daughter's three ewes giving birth. Dahlia had twins and they have fantastic markings - it's just a shame they are both rams. However, we might keep the black and white one for breeding. He is technically a black and grey yuglet fleket (meaning he is basically white but with coloured eye patches and coloured patches on his body). The other one is a grey bersugget (meaning he has patches of various shades of grey on his body).
On Saturday we had 3 ewes give birth. Firstly Lavina had twins, both are ewe lambs, 1 black and 1 black gulmoget (black with light coloured belly, chin and eyepatches)
Next was Robyn. Although she is a Shetland we put her with the Charollais tup this year to produce cross-bred lambs for meat. She had two large ram lambs. Because they are cross-bred they are white with slight beige patches.
Last on Saturday was Echo who also had twins, a black ewe and a black gulmoget ram.
Finally for this instalment, Monroe gave birth in the early hours of Sunday morning. She had twins, both rams, one a lovely dark fawn katmoget (fawn upper body, brown belly and legs and chin and badger-like face markings), the other was a plain moorit.
5 more to come in the next instalment!
