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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: SallyintNorth on September 20, 2012, 06:36:13 am

Title: Wild as cats, these Castlemilks, eh?
Post by: SallyintNorth on September 20, 2012, 06:36:13 am: For tame sheep, my tip is to buy them from a Children's Farm!
Title: Re: Wild as cats, these Castlemilks, eh?
Post by: SallyintNorth on September 20, 2012, 06:39:38 am: And the other pair are starting to realise the benefits...
Title: Re: Wild as cats, these Castlemilks, eh?
Post by: SallyintNorth on September 20, 2012, 06:40:46 am: It's actually been harder to get them to eat out of the trough! (But they've got it now. :relief:)
Title: Re: Wild as cats, these Castlemilks, eh?
Post by: Brucklay on September 20, 2012, 09:05:40 am: Lovely pics Sally - yeh real wild cats :roflanim:
Title: Re: Wild as cats, these Castlemilks, eh?
Post by: tizaala on September 20, 2012, 09:36:02 am: Lovely pics , you've got a couple of sheep there with non Castlemilk horn shapes , are they Shetland crosses?
Title: Re: Wild as cats, these Castlemilks, eh?
Post by: SallyintNorth on September 20, 2012, 10:24:47 am: Quote from: tizaala on September 20, 2012, 09:36:02 am
Lovely pics , you've got a couple of sheep there with non Castlemilk horn shapes , are they Shetland crosses?
They're my Manx Loaghtan gimmers ;D "Pricket" and "Dot Cotton". Hopefully they'll be having Shetland crosses next spring ;D
Title: Re: Wild as cats, these Castlemilks, eh?
Post by: Mammyshaz on September 20, 2012, 10:30:12 am: :love: Lovely looking, great piccies.

:thinking: I'm thinking fleece :excited:
Title: Re: Wild as cats, these Castlemilks, eh?
Post by: SallyintNorth on September 20, 2012, 12:06:33 pm: Quote from: Mammyshaz on September 20, 2012, 10:30:12 am
:thinking: I'm thinking fleece :excited:

That's the plan! :D :knit: :knit: :excited:
Title: Re: Wild as cats, these Castlemilks, eh?
Post by: Rosemary on September 20, 2012, 12:33:47 pm: They are very bonny.
Title: Re: Wild as cats, these Castlemilks, eh?
Post by: Tilly on September 20, 2012, 01:30:56 pm: :eyelashes: .....They look very happy :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: , often the way to a sheep's` heart is through its stomach!! ;D
Title: Re: Wild as cats, these Castlemilks, eh?
Post by: goosepimple on September 20, 2012, 03:02:15 pm: ;D ;D via the haggis ;D Like the pics Sally, our castlemilk's are the least forwards of our bunch, but I think are the prettiest when sheared.