2019, Waiting on lambs!

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The bleaching, oddly enough, still happens to greys!

Billy is grey for awhile now.
Before shearing, front left-

After, right-

And this is now-

This is him after shearing a couple years ago, center.
The black ram is an age greyer. He didn't start to grey until after his 4th birthday.

This is his fleece this year-

Here's 4 blacks at the feeder, one still black, 3 greying.

And this is a lamb with rapid color loss.
Born black, which sun bleached quickly & is also greying quickly.
I've noticed that ones that are bleaching fast as lambs, are usually also greying quickly.

 

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Oh, and!
A greyed black, if skin is injured, will regrow the wool as black & restart the greying process!
Also, this one was injured as a lamb, so the greying got a delay, even before the rest started to grey. (She was still black to the skin)

And this is her this year, finally caught up.

 

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New girls ate all the hay last night. They love hay, grass, not as much...lol. I need to buy more...

 

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Update on 83
Has a limp, but using her leg.

 

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Wee white one is thin, hoping grain helps her out.

They met the other cat before, now meeting another. Some lambs like cats, others don't. Two youngest shove the cats away.

The mutts noticed the housedog.

 

[AmberLops]

Good to know about the colors! Thanks for the info
And they're all so cute!! They're really small...how big do they get?

 

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18" to 24" max at shoulders.
Posted these back in 2016.
The big white one was a Cheviot.

 

[AmberLops]

Wow they are small!!

 

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Got all but 1 ewe & 2 rams' new pictures-

Krillin

Oreo

Billy

Latte

Tegan

Shenron

Kibito

Majin

Tatiana

 

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Hirola

Evangeline

Saola

Fossa

Vanilla

Matilda

Yamcha

Surry

Patchie

Willow