[Ladygrey]

Although I had a set of twins out of a shetland ewe whom one had a long tail and looked mostly charollais and the other had a shortish tail with hair on the tip like a shetland and came complete with shetland wool and shetland size, but just with muscles like a charollais  cant wait for her lambs in 2015!

The tup was a charollais btw (forgot to say)

if the photo worked then its of a shetland x charollais ewe lamb with her katmoget mother, born april 2013 (I have never used tinypic before so sorry if something goes wrong!!)

[Ladygrey]

This is the other twin, it is more of a charollais and much chunkyier, has shorter wool and a wider head

[Hillview Farm]

The first pic of the ewe lamb is utterly BEAUTIFUL!!

I will get some better pics as my ewes don't look anything like your  katmoget  LadyGrey.

How bloody confusing is all this!! haha hopefully will have their pedigree's soon so I'm sure they will state their colours?

[SteveHants]

Your Charollais ewes have got quite short tails...

The breed when it was imported from France had no tail at all, the took the whole thing off. Obviously that's not aloud in this country so the breeders just did them short. The shearlings have what I would call a normal length tail.

Nothing to do with me and I wont be doing the lambs that short! 

I am probably a bit anal about this, my tails are always on the longer side and I prefer to dag the tail(fleece) in the middle of summer if I think they are in danger of flystrike - I have had Swaley crosses as well and their tails were kept long - never got flystrike.

Unfortunately crossing Shetlands with terminal breeds means the offspring loose the fluke tail, so are usually docked.

I read a paper somewhere which suggests that all sheep are less prone to strike if they are not docked - they can use their tails to 'swish' at flies like cows do.


The only problem is, of course if they scour, I imagine the effects will be worse if they aren't docked. But really, there should be no reason to have scoury sheep.

[Ladygrey]

Yes pedigree's will state what thier colours are

I have another katmoget wich is darker and more smudged in her facial patterns like your darker one, she is registered as a Grey-Katmoget but her markings are not as pure as the ewe above whom is un registered

[Ladygrey]

I would say the back one might be Moget-faced moorit (moget faced but not full katmoget)

front one could be Moget-faced but dont know what her base colour would be

[jaykay]

The ewe on the right, with her bum towards us, is one of my fawn katmogets. You can see how the colour goes all the way underneath her. Her sister, at the far right of the group, is a grey katmoget.



The ewe behind the front moorit (brown) is a grey katmoget, as is the one to the right of her. They are quite dark ones. The gimmer on her own, far left, is a fawn katmoget.