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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: 17AndCounting on April 14, 2014, 05:59:51 pm

Title: Can you tell who the father is?
Post by: 17AndCounting on April 14, 2014, 05:59:51 pm

For one reason and another (close family bereavement etc) we weren't very organised at tupping and so we didn't get the rams raddled in time.

We have had 2 sets of twins and a singleton born. One set of twins is clearly fathered by our Shetland Katmoget (see picture), but the other set of twins and the singleton we don't know and can't tell.

I can't get a decent picture of the other twins. Mum is a Black Welsh Mountain - twins are both black, one has a tiny wisp of white on her head. One seems to have more of a crimp to it's fleece than Mum already.

I've attached a picture of the singleton.

Choice of Dad's is:
Shetland Katmoget (he's a cream colour body with a brown belly, cream and brown face);
Hebridean (dark brown fleece near skin paling to cream fleece at end);
Black Welsh Mountain (dark brown all over).

Can anyone hazard an educated guess?

Title: Re: Can you tell who the father is?
Post by: kanisha on April 14, 2014, 06:48:47 pm

Looks like your shetland ram was a busy boy ;-)  ;D

Title: Re: Can you tell who the father is?
Post by: Ladygrey on April 14, 2014, 07:02:02 pm

Sorry I cant help, they all look like shetlands to me!!!

but I am having the same problem and I had a shetland and a charollais cross hampshire down!!

I have small shetland looking lambs, giant shetland looking lambs, shetland lambs with big heads and big ears and tiny lambs that are wide and stocky... I have only have two that are obvs the bigger ram, the rest I have no idea!!!

I think its a waiting game to see how they grow, but it might just be that I have 19 shet lambs and 2 bigger lambs....

Title: Re: Can you tell who the father is?
Post by: shygirl on April 14, 2014, 07:03:11 pm

doesn't look like a hebridean to me.

Title: Re: Can you tell who the father is?
Post by: lizzypeg on April 14, 2014, 10:52:49 pm

glad brock is doing his job properly.... :excited:

Title: Re: Can you tell who the father is?
Post by: jaykay on April 14, 2014, 10:55:49 pm

I also think the Shetland got round them all  :D

Title: Re: Can you tell who the father is?
Post by: madcat on April 15, 2014, 10:29:42 am

Potentially pretty fleeces on the twins.

Can't comment on parenthood as I don't know enough. Is there a sheep version of Jeremy Kyle ?   :roflanim:

Title: Re: Can you tell who the father is?
Post by: Foobar on April 15, 2014, 10:41:09 am

See if you can get a photo of the black's, I'd love to see 'em.  A white wisp on the head sometimes happens with pure BWMs, I have one this year.  And they do show a quite a crimp when young, but I'd expect the twins to match in that respect.  You might have one black-black and one black-shetland/heb.

Title: Re: Can you tell who the father is?
Post by: Ladygrey on April 15, 2014, 10:57:19 am

I have black shetland lambs with crimpy hair and white flashes on their heads  :eyelashes:

Title: Re: Can you tell who the father is?
Post by: jaykay on April 15, 2014, 11:23:02 am

Yes, several of mine answer to that description  :)