The fifth lambing... the last lambing!

My last lambing...

Triplet ram lambs born this morning - brown 9lb, black 11lb, & brown 7lb. All of them have some white on their faces!

 

 

The fourth lambing...

This morning I was woken around 1am by bleating...

This white 3yr old ewe had these two lambs pretty well licked clean! A black ram lamb and a white ewe lamb. both about 8lb.

She later delivered a 6lb lamb that was already dead and obviously had been for a little while. It was mostly brown! So she actually had one of each of the main colours possible!!!

 

The third lambing...

My 4yr old pet ewe had twins late in the day on the 18th of August... Both black... A ewe lamb and then a ram lamb...

2020 Lambing - Post #5 Another set of twins!!

 This black 2yr old ewe had twin ram lambs late last night (about 11:33pm & 11:48pm)...

#1 is black with a white patchy face and white on the tip of his tail, and weighed 5kg!

#2 is moorit (brown) with some white on his head, and weighed 6kg!

 

Lambing 2020 - Post #1 First lamb of the season!

My first lamb arrived around 9:30am on Thursday morning (30 July).

Mum is a black (grey!) 3yr old ewe, and this was her second lambing.

She had a moorit (brown) ewe lamb, that weighed about 4.5kg.

Sheep for sale!

Yes, I had some sheep to sell...! And they are pretty much all sold...

Please note that ALL of these sheep carry the moorit genetics.

~ white 3+ yr old ewe, born  September 2016

White, with a big black patch over her nose (mostly on one side of her face).
She had two white lambs (1M, 1F) as a 2yr old, and two black lambs (1M, 1F) this season as a 3yr old. 
SOLD

~ her black ewe lamb (left side of photo, behind mum) - born August 2019

daughter of the white ewe above, this ewe lamb has white "tear-drop" markings
which I suspect is one of the "blue" pattern genes at the A-locus
 SOLD

~ her black ram lamb (right side of photo, by shed) may also be available!
 SOLD

~ white ewe lamb, born October 2019
Her white dam (not for sale) is a daughter of the white ewe (with black face-patch) in the previous photo
this ewe lamb never sold... but I'm going keep her for now! :-)

~~ twin grey/black ewe lambs - also born August 2019

Their dam is the black/grey ewe in the photo. She is a hand-raised pet ewe that I’m planning to keep 
SOLD (both lambs)

~ 1+ yr old grey/black ewe - born September 2018

Her sire was a triplet brother of the 2+yr old ewe listed next
SOLD

~ her single black ram lamb
 SOLD

~ moorit ewe lamb, born September 2019
Her black dam is a triplet sister of the 1+yr old grey/black ewe above (this black ewe is not for sale)
SOLD

~ 2+ yr old grey/black ewe - born September 2017

She was one of triplets and her dam was of dairy breeding

She has had twins this season, as a 2yr old... I didn't lamb hoggets last season, or she would have lambed as a hogget!
She is a VERY good mum!
SOLD

~ her moorit (brown) ewe lamb - born August 2019
...but I cannot tell you which lamb in the photo is the ewe lamb!!
SOLD

~ her moorit (brown) ram lamb - born August 2019, will be for sale after tupping 
SOLD

~ moorit 1+ yr old ewe - born August 2018
SOLD

~  her single moorit ewe lamb - born September 2019 
SOLD

~ moorit 2+ yr old ewe - born September 2017

She was a triplet. She was last shorn in April 2019, due to fly-strike
SOLD

~ her single moorit ewe lamb - born beginning of October 2019
 SOLD

 

~ single moorit ewe lamb out of a hogget mum - born October 2019

Her dam is one of my hand-raised pets that I’m planning to keep
 SOLD

Anybody interested in any of these sheep, please contact me at
bethederjoy-colouredsheep@yahoo.com
Also note that these sheep are in Southland, New Zealand.

Another lamb! (2019 lambing - post #3)

This 4kg ewe lamb was born to a hogget overnight last night - whether before midnight (on the 17th) or after midnight (on the 18th), I'll never quite know!

I think she looks moorit... at least, her wool & face do... her legs are so dark that they look black - so it will be interesting to see what she looks like in another week or two! The white markings on her face look interesting too.

Meantime, the other lambs are getting older (oldest twins are a month old today, and the last two sets of twins were three weeks old yesterday)...

 

Our R2yr Jersey heifer calved (had a heifer calf) just over a week ago, and has needed milking twice a day as she had a lot of oedema & a hard udder... I'm also milking our older cow once a day.
Live has been pretty busy, and I was glad that none of the sheep lambed during all that! I have another 2yr old ewe yet to lamb and the rest of the hoggets - and it looks like ALL my hogget are going to lamb this season!

More lambs! (2019 lambing - post #2)

This white 3yr old ewe has had two black lambs (1M, 1F)
- between 5:00 & 5:30am on Tuesday morning, the 27th Aug.

This black, pet, 2yr old ewe had black twin ewe lambs
also on the 27th of August - but in the evening...