Author Topic: what breeds or crosses are my 3 sheep? (Read 7801 times)

Ladygrey · « **Reply #15 on:** December 03, 2012, 07:38:05 pm »

I had two (now one) shetland/ryelands and they dont look much like your sheep at all

Note sure what they could be but they are very cute

lizzypeg · « **Reply #16 on:** December 03, 2012, 08:10:25 pm »

he actually said they were shetland x south downs....but i know nothing about the breeds so just said ok..

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #17 on:** December 04, 2012, 05:15:32 am »

Quote from: lizzypeg on December 03, 2012, 08:10:25 pm

he actually said they were shetland x south downs....but i know nothing about the breeds so just said ok..

What are their fleeces like?

Southdown on primitive is a cross I've considered to get a good fat lamb and a lovely fleece....

Blackbird · « **Reply #18 on:** December 04, 2012, 04:27:45 pm »

The tiny white one with the coat in your last pic looks like a sheep x dog to me!

(at own joke - pathetic..)

lizzypeg · « **Reply #19 on:** December 04, 2012, 07:33:15 pm »

erm i don't know much about sheep fleece but seems to be dense and thick and doesnt part easily if that helps...

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #20 on:** December 05, 2012, 04:10:11 am »

Quote from: lizzypeg on December 04, 2012, 07:33:15 pm

erm i don't know much about sheep fleece but seems to be dense and thick and doesnt part easily if that helps...

Well, yes, it does help

You wouldn't say that of a Shetland fleece; not parting easily suggests something like a Texel cross to me, but I am not very familiar with the fleece on the hoof of many other terminal sires - so quite likely Suffolk or even Southdown might feel the same.

Anyone?

Fronhaul · « **Reply #21 on:** December 05, 2012, 02:17:59 pm »

I am inclined to go with the description of what they were sold as.

I really do not think there is much if any Black Welsh Mountain blood there. The shape of the head is wrong, the appearance of the fleece is wrong, and one of them isn't black which is fairly unlikely if the other half is Southdown.

The heads do look a little like the Dorset Down heads of my youth. The variations in colour may well indicate Shetland.

Whatever they are they are nice and obviously very happy with you.

Gunnermark · « **Reply #22 on:** December 05, 2012, 06:28:00 pm »

I'd say there was a strain of Suffolk in there as my Suffolk cross Jacob lambs a couple of years ago looked like the brown lambs! The white one looks like a Suffolk x Texel crossed again with something as I have a wether with similar markings!