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Community => Events => Scottish Smallholder & Grower Festival => Topic started by: HappyHippy on October 01, 2012, 11:45:29 pm

Title: Help to identify sheep that were at the festival
Post by: HappyHippy on October 01, 2012, 11:45:29 pm

Hiya folks,
Hoping some of you sheep folk can help identify a couple of sheep OH saw at Forfar on Sunday  :fc:

I don't have much info  ::)
They were white, there were 2 in the pen - 1 male, one female, they were MASSIVE and the female had a rasta style haircut  ???

Anybody ?

Title: Re: Help to identify sheep that were at the festival
Post by: Big Light on October 02, 2012, 07:12:10 am

Wensleydale?
http://wensleydale-sheep.com/ (http://wensleydale-sheep.com/)

Title: Re: Help to identify sheep that were at the festival
Post by: Rosemary on October 02, 2012, 11:14:21 am

Yep. Alex Wilson, The Red House, Freuchie Fife KY15 7EZ. Wensleydales - his ewe was Reserve Champion.

Stunning sheep.

Title: Re: Help to identify sheep that were at the festival
Post by: HappyHippy on October 02, 2012, 11:54:40 am

Thanks  :-*
Bruce was very impressed with the size of them - think he's thinking 'lamb chops'  :yum: ::)

Title: Re: Help to identify sheep that were at the festival
Post by: Fleecewife on October 02, 2012, 01:03:38 pm

Those lovely long fleeces draggle in the mud Karen, which is why we have never kept them for spinning   :sheep:

Title: Re: Help to identify sheep that were at the festival
Post by: SallyintNorth on October 02, 2012, 06:01:14 pm

A few have recently arrived on the moorland farm where I used to be; they're to breed with Swales to produce something akin to a Masham, I think. 

I share your thought about that long fleece and mud, though, FW...

Title: Re: Help to identify sheep that were at the festival
Post by: ukag0972 on October 02, 2012, 06:18:28 pm

I was tempted to buy one of them at the Caley rare breed sale! They were very funky looking, and I like the funky animals!!

Title: Re: Help to identify sheep that were at the festival
Post by: mmu on October 03, 2012, 09:13:25 am

S'cuse my ignorance, but where's the Caley rare breed sale?  Those two were penned next to us, and I though they had a lot more bone than other Wensledales I'd seen..... They caused quite a lot of comment from passers by!