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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: kanisha on April 17, 2011, 08:49:28 am

Title: Finally a black lamb!
Post by: kanisha on April 17, 2011, 08:49:28 am
(http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd278/SperedBreizh/P1000152.jpg)
This little fella was born yesterday I am thrilled with him
Title: Re: Finally a black lamb!
Post by: shearling on April 17, 2011, 08:53:36 am
so cute. What type is he? and how long have you been waiting for one?
Title: Re: Finally a black lamb!
Post by: Rosemary on April 17, 2011, 09:07:51 am
He's so cute! And pocketsized  ;D
Title: Re: Finally a black lamb!
Post by: kanisha on April 17, 2011, 09:23:54 am
He's a Ouessant Shearling  they are most commonly black but I've been waiting weeks for lambing to start here and the first few have been white. finally a black one !
Pocket sized ones are so much easier ;D
Title: Re: Finally a black lamb!
Post by: jaykay on April 17, 2011, 09:27:43 am
He is very sweet  ;D

Yeh, pocket-sized sheep sound a good idea as I nurse my back having done the feet of one of my Rough Fells on my own yesterday  ::)
Title: Re: Finally a black lamb!
Post by: daddymatty82 on April 17, 2011, 10:28:52 am
our black lambs never stay black for long lol are you still allowed to call them black lambs?
Title: Re: Finally a black lamb!
Post by: kanisha on April 17, 2011, 11:15:44 am
depends, this one will stay black when shorn if their fleece bleach to brown then you could call them a fading black if on the other hand its a suffolk no they're white sheep
Title: Re: Finally a black lamb!
Post by: suziequeue on April 17, 2011, 12:21:17 pm
Ahhh - he looks very determined :-)
Title: Re: Finally a black lamb!
Post by: daddymatty82 on April 17, 2011, 02:52:44 pm
just my girls pre school sing ba ba rainbow sheep as its so say racist now. i still and will always call them what they are
Title: Re: Finally a black lamb!
Post by: andywalt on April 17, 2011, 02:53:03 pm
what a cracker well done

congrats
Title: Re: Finally a black lamb!
Post by: kanisha on April 17, 2011, 03:02:21 pm
Quote from: kanisha on April 17, 2011, 11:15:44 am
depends, this one will stay black when shorn if their fleece bleach to brown then you could call them a fading black if on the other hand its a suffolk no they're white sheep

gotcha sheesh politcal correctness in overdrive ::)
Title: Re: Finally a black lamb!
Post by: kanisha on April 17, 2011, 03:05:43 pm
Quote from: andywalt on April 17, 2011, 02:53:03 pm
what a cracker well done

congrats

thanks Andy this lamb had vey high expectations his dam is 100% Abbé breeding the man most credited with saving the breed  and this blood line is so very hard to get hold of shes also a french champion twice over;  I love the construction and bloodline of the sire but this little lamb has totally exceeded my expectations :o
Title: Re: Finally a black lamb!
Post by: princesspiggy on April 18, 2011, 10:47:05 am
be careful with black lambs....ours is now 4 yrs and still here ...lol    :wave:
Title: Re: Finally a black lamb!
Post by: SallyintNorth on April 19, 2011, 02:54:01 am
Quote from: princesspiggy on April 18, 2011, 10:47:05 am
be careful with black lambs....ours is now 4 yrs and still here ...lol    :wave:

Ay!  And that's why I put the little black b*!!*£ks on the other side of a rubber ring...  otherwise I could see him staying on for a tup.  (And we're not racist, no, but his parentage is a bit of a mixture - 1/8 Swale, 1/8 Blue-faced Leicester, 3/4 texel - so not ideal for a tup in our flock.)