Roving's lambing thread LAST ONE!

[Roving Jacobs]

When shall I expect Primrose... you do ship right?

I don't know, little Primrose is pretty perfect and adorable. I think she's probably staying right here.

She's grown out of her baby lamb pajamas into soft fluffy wool.


The other two are still working on it. The little boy is definitely 4 horned, I'm not sure about the girls yet.


The white romeldale boy is so cute! Those ears are just the best.


The spotted CVM one is fantastic too though.


As much as it would have been nice to have some romeldale ewes, this way I can breed each of my adult ewes to one of the ram lambs and neither has to breed with their son or Al the cormo. Hopefully we have even more spotty fantastic babies (and some ewe lambs!) from them next year.

 

[Southern by choice]

You know I am partial to the jacobs but I have to say... the last 3 pics!

Those ears!!!!!!

The color on the CVM WOWOWOWOWOW!

So, I am completely ignorant here.... what does CVM stand for? I sthe color on your usual? I mean he looks like he had gooten into the choc syrup!

Chocolate dipped!

Q- Our two Jacobs have become really, really sweet since their shearing... is this normal? Now they want their necks to be scratched all the time.

 

[Roving Jacobs]

You know I am partial to the jacobs but I have to say... the last 3 pics!

Those ears!!!!!!

The color on the CVM WOWOWOWOWOW!

So, I am completely ignorant here.... what does CVM stand for? I sthe color on your usual? I mean he looks like he had gooten into the choc syrup!

Chocolate dipped!

Q- Our two Jacobs have become really, really sweet since their shearing... is this normal? Now they want their necks to be scratched all the time.

I've found mine all get super friendly after shearing or other stressful events, like needing eye drops or wound care. I think they feel like we've gone through something scary together and they've come out safe so I must be a good person, but I'm probably just anthropomorphizing them

CVM stands for California Variegated Mutant, which is what the badgerfaced markings are called in romeldales. It popped up unexpectedly in a herd in California so that's where it got the name. Its confusing because some people treat them as an entirely separate breed but its like squares and rectangles. Every CVM is a romeldale but not every romeldale is a CVM. My little spotty boy's badgerface markings aren't super clear because he has so much white but I'm pretty sure he counts as a CVM. He should get darker as he gets older so they might become more clear when he's a big grown ram.

 

[Bridgemoof]

Yep that little Romeldale's coloring is something else! Gosh the colors! I have a Corriedale/Leicester ewe here that is all mottled like that. Her fleece was beautiful, so many colors! So who was this one's sire?

Oh, incidentally, speaking of horns, all 3 of my Jacob babies turned out 4 horned. They're so cute now. Your Primrose looks a bit like my Cloud.

 

[Roving Jacobs]

Yep that little Romeldale's coloring is something else! Gosh the colors! I have a Corriedale/Leicester ewe here that is all mottled like that. Her fleece was beautiful, so many colors! So who was this one's sire?

Oh, incidentally, speaking of horns, all 3 of my Jacob babies turned out 4 horned. They're so cute now. Your Primrose looks a bit like my Cloud.
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Yay for lots of horns! Cloud is lovely

My romeldales were bred when I bought them to two different cvm romeldale ram. I don't have any pictures of this one's sire as an adult but here he is as a lamb. The little boy looks just like his daddy at that age.

 

[Roving Jacobs]

Bridge wanted cormo lambs so have some cormo lambs. Prism had two big boys (13.4 and 10.5 lbs) last night around 1:30. If only they were girls! Oh well, their fleece will still be beautiful.

The big boy.


I love all the wrinkles!


Big boy has an attitude.


Little boy has grey tips on his ears.


And a grey nose.


Prism only has milk on one side of her udder but I'm treating her for mastitis and massaging the other side so hopefully I won't have to supplement or pull one of the lambs. They're doing fine on the one side she has working so far so fingers crossed!

 

[Bridgemoof]

Awww aren't they adorable!!! I found the Cormo babies were awfully wrinkly. Takes a while to get rid of those wrinkles, too! They're so cute.

 

[Four Winds Ranch]

How adorable!!! I love lambs, and seeing the different breeds as babies!!!!

 

[Bridgemoof]

Hey Roving, Cormo and Jacob fleeces were selling big time at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival yesterday. Some of those blanketed Cormos were..... ahhhhhh so beautiful. One fleece was for sale for $225.00! I'm going back today so I'll see if it sold. Pretty pricey! All of mine sold. And one of my Jacob's fleeces won first in its class! Woo hoo!

 

[Southern by choice]

The "big boy has attitude" pic is my favorite!!!!!!!!!! what a hoot!

I think you could put up so many captions... maybe... I'm not sure if I like it here in the big big world.... my ears are for balance....