The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Big Light on April 15, 2015, 03:52:09 pm
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Fleecewife after your day of chasing sheep i thought you would like to see a good old fashioned registered top knot Gimmer
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Excellent Big Light :thumbsup: Do you have more? Do you have an old fashioned type tup? Was it you writing in the Year Book?
The first timer involved in yesterday's farce, Mauna Loa, is an ancient type topknot, with a brown fleece. Our other first timer Eyafjallajokel (it was volcanoes that year ::)) 4h, just lambed an hour ago, fortunately with bleep bleep Brigitte, our first ever polled topknot, who is now 15, out of the way. Brigie still hasn't popped her lamb yet, but I have forgiven her.
I might have some pics too - I love pics, thank you. And it's great knowing that changes to the Breed Description Mr F helped to establish, mean that these sheep can be registered :sheep: :sheep: Sad to think how many were sent for meat because the then Committee didn't approve of them and just wanted clones :( Now more and more folk, especially in Scotland and Northern England, are realising their importance.
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Yes did a little piece for the year book - Here's a 3 mixed heads the full top knot, a four horn and a scurred all gimmers we were lucky enough to aquire as ewe lambs
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Wow ! Satanic looking sheep :thumbsup: stunning
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THe straight 4 horn in the picture of 3 looks like she has come from some where much warmer! :sunshine: :stir:
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What brilliant looking sheep!!!
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Thanks
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The little 4 horned Hebbies do look a bit like imps ;D
Big Light, it's good to put a name to a face and to a TAS avatar. I do remember you told me way back at Lanark, but I was overwhelmed with meeting so many people that day that it went in one ear and out the other ::)
I did enjoy your piece in the Year Book :thumbsup:
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Thanks - keep up the good work yourself and good luck with the rest of the lambing - we are down to 5
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Meant to say Gladstone Laughing boy is the GGS of the topknot and scurred (top knot ish)
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Ah - Laughing Boy was our first top knot home bred tup ( from Jezebel our now 19yo ewe) and still up for tupping time in spite of being quite elderly. In fact he's the founder, with the ewes obviously, of our ancient type flock. We use several other tups too, some of which have topknots, one of which is a very standard 2 horn. It would be interesting to know the flock yours came from.
We have just 7 left to lamb. Quite a high proportion of singles so far.
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A flock on a windy mountain not far away from you :0)
If you look on the grassroots system under our selves eden is the top knot, Lunan is scurred and dee is the straight 4 horn
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I wondered :thinking:. We can wave across the valley to them - at least, we can see their wind turbine. They started their flock with our stock, a good few years ago now, so it's great to know they are spreading their animals around :thumbsup:
Funny - we have a Lunan too, 4 horn, enormously wide waiting to lamb.