[Rosemary]

We have a few coloured Ryeland ewes for sale, to make room for the gimmers coming through. I think they would make a nice wee starter flock for someone.

Jura - coloured, born 2007. Just had her fourth lamb, a single coloured tup. She's had two singles and one set of twins previously, all without any assistance. She is a great mum - very milky and attentive to her lambs.

Lyra - coloured, Jura's 2009 daughter. She has a single ewe lamb at foot, called Sweetpea, that she lambed without assistance. She had twin tup lambs last year, but one was born dead. She's a great mum, like Jura (dogs beware).

Now, Sweetpea has a white fleece but will be registered as coloured as she has a coloured parent. If you put her to a coloured tup in due course, she may have white lambs. Depends how bothered you are about this - she's a cracking lamb though.

Luna - coloured, born 2009. Had a single lamb last year, Pickle, and mixed coloured twins this year (Star and a tup). Again, she has lambed both years without assistance and is a good mother.

Pickle - Luna's 2010 coloured daughter. Pickle's quite petite but so was her mother until her second summer. I did fail to recognise her in the field today though, as she seems to have had a growth spurt. She's a wee character though and is the bounciest of the gimmers.

I thought this was a nice group - two mothers and daughters, so four to lamb next year, plus two ewe lambs to bring on and two tup lambs who can chum each other to the freezer in the autumn. The three ewes have all been easy lambers and good mums.

They'll all be tagged, of course. All four ewes are registered and all four lambs are eligible for registration and I'll do that if the buyer wants it done. We don't normally register our tup lambs because it's £15 per lamb, and they're for meat rather than breeding.

The ewes were wormed with Panacur, fluked with Fasinex and have had Coopers Spot on at turnout after lambing. All four ewes are on the Heptavac P Plus programme and got their boosters in February. The lambs haven't had anything yet but I'm planning to Heptavac them next weekend (12th / 13th). They would then need a second jag 4-6 weeks later.

I'm happy to sell now with lambs at foot. I would like them to go as a group though or as two mother and daughter pairs. Call me sentimental if you like   

If you are interested, PM me.