from another spinner
with her own sheep.
Mine are bred for meat and fleece. I have a few pure breeds (Shetland, Manx, black Wensleydale) and a lot of crosses, including Castlemilk Moorit x Shetland, Blue-faced Leicester x Shetland and 1/4 BFL, and one 1/4 Icelandic.
Last year I moved from a hill farm in Cumbria to north Cornwall, bringing a subset of my flock with me. It's a cohousing community here, with a small farm to feed ourselves. My sheep joined the resident Zwartbles. We're now combining the flocks, aiming to get sheep a bit larger than my smallest but with good feet and fleece, easy lambers, good mothers, and able to rear on our grass.
I've got a Heb tup booked for my three little girls this time. I wanted a small tup for them to give them an easy first time. We may be able to get hold of a Jacob to use on the two remaining Zwartbles and the three full grown fleece sheep we want to tup this year. In case the Jacob gets sold before we want to hire him, we're making enquiries about a Romney tup lamb.