The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: SallyintNorth on September 13, 2013, 12:06:17 pm
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The brown one is mine, all three will run in the commercial flock and be tupped this year by a Dutch Texel.
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Lovely looking sheep. Is the fleece any good for spinning?
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I'm not a fan of horned sheep, but do like the look of these :thumbsup:
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They're lovely :-)
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Very nice. Love the mix of fleece colours :spin: :knit:
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Damn - I could have sworn a 'funny looking' little flock by the road near me were Icelandics. Now I'm not so sure...
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Lovely looking sheep. Is the fleece any good for spinning?
Hoooohhh yeah!!!!! :excited: :spin:
Should be double-coated; outer is tog, inner is thel (or the other way about, never can remember), mixed is lopi. Thel (inner) very very soft, felts very very easily; outer is very hardwearing. Think Icelandic jumper! :idea: Felted slippers! :excited: Ooooh, lots of uses! :spin: :excited: :knit:
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I'm not a fan of horned sheep, but do like the look of these :thumbsup:
Exactly what himself said when we saw our first last year at Lanark. Good strong ewes, hardy as heck. :fc:
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Damn - I could have sworn a 'funny looking' little flock by the road near me were Icelandics. Now I'm not so sure...
These are particularly fine specimens - big strong girls. They are actually 7/8 Icelandic, 1/8 Berrichon. So the ones you see could be Icelandic, depending on how different they are... If you post some pics we can try and work it out :eyelashes:
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Damn - I could have sworn a 'funny looking' little flock by the road near me were Icelandics. Now I'm not so sure...
These are particularly fine specimens - big strong girls. They are actually 7/8 Icelandic, 1/8 Berrichon. So the ones you see could be Icelandic, depending on how different they are... If you post some pics we can try and work it out :eyelashes:
That might involve crashing my car.... ;D
But these are all brown, similarly horned though. I know its not much of a description, I only get a good look at them in a traffic jam.
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Steve, the ones you are seeing wouldn't be Castlemilk Moorits or Manx Loaghtans, would they?
Top pic is a Castlemilk Moorit, 2nd a Manx ewe with her Shetland X lamb. You can get Manxes that are shaped like the Castlemilks, same horns too, but the all-over dark brown of my Manx in this pic.
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lovely!
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Steve, the ones you are seeing wouldn't be Castlemilk Moorits or Manx Loaghtans, would they?
Top pic is a Castlemilk Moorit, 2nd a Manx ewe with her Shetland X lamb. You can get Manxes that are shaped like the Castlemilks, same horns too, but the all-over dark brown of my Manx in this pic.
No - they are much more 'heavy set' than those, more like the first pic, but it makes sense if they have Berrichon in. Some of my woolshedders have a bit in, and some have Friesland - I'll post a pic of a Berrichon 'throw out' you can tell by the pink noses....
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Most likely Manx Loughtan which can be quite sturdy and there's plenty of them about.
Sally - I love the sheeps :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: 8) in fact I'm quite envious :wave:
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one day i need to come up with an excuse to go visit sally and have a look at all her different sheeps!!!
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No excuse needed, especially if accompanied by spinning children ;D