[Brucklay]

As I thought my shetland ram wasn't doing the biz - very late on I swapped the rams over - as it was the shetland ram did one of the Castlemilks.


So here we have what to me looks like a polled grey sturdy Castlemilk 

[SallyintNorth]

Beautiful!! 

[Brucklay]

Was going to title - picture for SITN 

[mowhaugh]

What a lovely lamb!

[roddycm]

Gorgeous! You should breed more and make your own breed! Hybrid vigour is such a wonderful thing! Is it a ewe lamb? My black welsh ram got a cpl of my manx ewes once and they produced fantastic lambs that grew really well and fast! Can't find pics now but the girls were polled and the boys had extra big horns!

[Anke]

She'll have a fleece to die for..... . What colour was the Shetland tup?
 
I am thinking of a black Shetland tup on a light-grey Gotland (with some texel in)... this year maybe... if I can get my act together and get a tup organised...

[Brucklay]

Yes she is a ewe lamb and getting almost sociable for a Castlemilk or is a bit stand offish for a Shetland!!


I'm not a fleece user but do want to produce nice fleece so this will be interesting - oh and ram was a Grey shetland - my lovely boy Silver

[SallyintNorth]

Was going to title - picture for SITN 

I knew it was just for me 

[SallyintNorth]

Yes she is a ewe lamb and getting almost sociable for a Castlemilk or is a bit stand offish for a Shetland!!

Mine are the other way about.  The Shetland crosses are still a bit standoffish, though improving, and the Castlemilks as you know are delightful pests!

I'm not a fleece user but do want to produce nice fleece so this will be interesting - oh and ram was a Grey shetland - my lovely boy Silver

Should be gorgeous.  I have two Manx x Shetland ewe lambs to take on this year, the one is a grey katmoget and her fleece will I think be fantastic.  The other is a moorit with good crimpy fleece but less soft.  I also have a (part)Charollais x Shetland ewe lamb with fabulously soft fleece, and her half-brother is such a good sheep with such good fleece we are planning to use him on some of the commercial small (Dutch Texel x) shearlings (first timers) as well as my little fleece flock. 

[SheepCrazy!]

Gorgeous!  I've got SoayXJacobs who are standoff ish and Soay like, and TexelXSoays and they have texel natures always first to the bucket but hangout with the soays, you've got to love hybrids!