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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Raine on April 10, 2013, 07:19:19 am

Title: Our First Lamb!
Post by: Raine on April 10, 2013, 07:19:19 am

 :wave:


Our ewe who went down with fly strike two weeks after we bought her has been the first to lamb.  We think it's a boy (but when we went to check him over, she led him into the hedge)

Title: Re: Our First Lamb!
Post by: MrsJ on April 10, 2013, 07:46:14 am

He looks gorgeous!!   :love:

Title: Re: Our First Lamb!
Post by: kanisha on April 10, 2013, 08:37:03 am

very nice :love:

Title: Re: Our First Lamb!
Post by: LouiseG on April 10, 2013, 10:11:34 am

ooooo he's beautiful  :love:
 

Title: Re: Our First Lamb!
Post by: Remy on April 10, 2013, 11:08:14 am

Pretty lamb, what breed is that?

Title: Re: Our First Lamb!
Post by: GaddesdenGal on April 10, 2013, 05:11:35 pm

What a lovely lamb  :love:

Title: Re: Our First Lamb!
Post by: Raine on April 10, 2013, 06:29:45 pm

 :wave:


He is a Balwen Welsh Mountain.  Managed to get hold of him and check him over after work.  Quite a big boy really!

Title: Re: Our First Lamb!
Post by: Cosmo on April 10, 2013, 08:14:27 pm

Are his dam and sire pedigree?

Title: Re: Our First Lamb!
Post by: Raine on April 10, 2013, 08:46:02 pm

 :wave:
No, he isn't eligible to be registered.

[/size]Both parents carry markings outside of the registration requirements. Jack's white facial marking does not come down to the his nose and Hotlips has too much white (too high on her legs and a complete circle around the mouth, hence her name  ;) ).
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[/size]I am thinking of buying a registered Badger Faced Welsh Mountain ram (Torddu) later in the year, as I have two registered ewe's.