purplequeenvt - Ivy Knoll Farm

[Bridgemoof]

How's this for a mug shot?

That's Pepper. Salty looks the same basically. Can you tell what color genes they have?

 

[purplequeenvt]

How's this for a mug shot?
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/5910_img_0691.jpg
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/5910_img_0692.jpg

That's Pepper. Salty looks the same basically. Can you tell what color genes they have?

Yup, they were born black, but turned grey since they carry a copy of the greying gene.

 

[Bridgemoof]

Thanks PQVT! Who knows what I'll get when the brown Finn gets mixed with Cinnamon, and then I think Dipsy the Cormo got Pepper. Should be interesting. You like color genetics, I like cross breeding surprises!

 

[CocoNUT]

OK...couple of things....Kitty is ADORABLE! I don't know why;...maybe it's her hairy face! She's moorit right? I think I have a "thing" for moorits!

Sore mouth kinda looks like a herpes type of thing! Makes sinese if it's on their udders too. It looks rough! Hopefully they'll all heal soon!

Bridget...I'm not worried about what Cinnamon's lamb(s) will look like...you know I'll probably end up bringing it home with me when you're not looking !

 

[purplequeenvt]

Today is the last day of lambing! Ingrid is in labor......or she is pulling a really mean April Fool's joke on me.

 

[Bridgemoof]

I was wondering when she would go! I thought you still had one left. Hope it goes well. My Cormo Po looks like she is going into labor, too!

 

[purplequeenvt]

And they are twin girls! This is the 2nd year that my Shetlands have given me ONE boy and the rest girls.....I think that means they like me.

Twin #1 - black blettet ewe, 6.5 lbs

She has this funny little grey patch underneath her right eye. I am wondering if she has some sort of partially expressed katmoget pattern going on.

Twin #2 - black katmoget ewe, 5 lbs

 

[Bridgemoof]

Beautiful! YAy! Especially the coloring of #2.

 

[purplequeenvt]

I got 2 nice girls out of Bridget so I was content, but I was secretly hoping for a katmoget girl from Ingrid. Lyd has told me that I can only keep 2 girls this year. :/ I have promised to be good and the ewes have been very helpful with the decision making process. I'm planning to keep Kitty out of Bridget and the katmoget out of Ingrid.

 

[purplequeenvt]

Our overall lambing numbers are as follows:

19 bred ewes (8 BL, 8 crosses, 3 Shetlands)

28 lambs (12 BL, 10 crosses, 6 Shetlands)
11 rams (3 BL, 7 crosses, 1 Shetland)
17 ewes (9 BL, 3 crosses, 5 Shetlands)

Overall lambing percentage = 147%
BL = 150%
Crosses = 125%
Shetlands = 200%

I didn't include the 3 ewes and 4 lambs that we lost, but adding them in doesn't affect the numbers very much.