[Brucklay]

Finally we have our first lambs - 'Little Miss' lambed at a very respectable 6.30pm - I've been keeping a sharp eye on her for days then last night she didn't come up for her tea so thought it was going to be soon - as I got on with my jobs watched her pawing and pacing and then settle by the ugly pallet shelter - she had one and cleaned him up and then with OH on gate duty I picked him up and walked backwards with her licking him to the barn. 20min later she delivered a little girl. They defiantly get all their looks from their Castlemilk Moorit dad!! Little boy in bucket and wee girl trying to jump on mums back - if I was a better photographer I could have got her on!! After the difficult kidding we had nice to start with a straight forward lambing hope it continues.

[suziequeue]

 

Wonderful. We had our first lambs today too

[jaykay]

Excellent  They look good and lively too 

[in the hills]

Ahhhhhh ..... well done.

They are really cute little things.   

[Sylvia]

Lovely My neighbour had his first lambs today. I've got a few days to go yet. How easy are Castlemilk moorits to keep?

[MrsJ]

That's cute of the one in the bucket.  We had some a couple of years ago where they jumped all over mum (and also over a ewe that was still pregnant!)

[Remy]

Awww so cute  .  Mum is such a pretty colour too!

[SallyintNorth]

Bless - see, jaykay, it's not always about how long your curls, it's also about how cute you behave!

Thanks for posting - what is mum?

[Brucklay]

Sally, she's sheltand but could have a wee bit of Ouessant in her family tree, as I'd got the ram for the registered girls thought why not - as she's manage the size easily.

Sylvia - I'm sure they can be wee devils but so far (touch wood) ours have been fine, from word go I visit 2 x daily with a wee bit of feed and they go into a penned area to feed so they don't notice too much when I have to lock them in to do things and they weigh about the same as a shetland so not too heavy for me to manage on my own - and I think they look very elegant but I do love my scruffy sheltands - time for a shear soon

[woollyval]

I took one look at that ewe and thought Ouessant! I have one that was given to me by some folks in Stafford who looks exactly ike that!

[kanisha]

Oh dear please don't say that:-( the moorit ouessant is not native, this colour has never been documented in the native flock but appears alot in dutch  bred or dutch origin ouessants most likely as the colouration was introduced by cross breeding to the shetland or to skudde where the coloration was also introduced through the shetland. every time I see one looking like that I think just the oposite.

[woollyval]

Mines not at all moorit....in fact moorit shetlands and noisette ouessants are almost identical except for height and type...colour exactly the same! I know as I used to keep some shetlands a long time ago! My ewe who looks like this has a very orange face and is very very small and correct....which is rather unusual as she is a British Ouessant decended of course from Dutch imports! She has a very fine white fleece and is very old...no teeth!!! She has just had a cracking lamb which had a leg back so took a bit of manouvering!!!

[kanisha]

technically the colour term for a ouessant that is recessive BbBb is brune but the colouration is most definately not in the native; the fine facial features and sticky legs of the dutch ouessant are more closely allied particularly with the skudde the classic wedge of the native ouessant is rarely repeated in dutch breeding unless it has french lines behind it that said even those in france who have brought in the brune/ Noisette or moorits  ( pick you choice of colour term) have yet to produce one where you can't identifiy its dutch origins in its features. nuff said

 

[Tilly]

I love the photo`s - Your lambs look lovely bundles of mischief 

[woollyval]

......interesting Kanisha.....Merinos mother is a dutch noisette....and he is very french!! I have used him on this ewe and the result is a very chunky lamb!!
Brucklay your lambs are really nice...my little ouessant came with a surprise package last year...lambs father was a cameroon hair sheep!!!