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 second lambing...

 

 

This set of twins was born on the 18th of August to a 3yr old ewe!

A light brown ram lamb, followed by a dark brown ewe lamb.

The ewe lamb almost didn't survive, but she made it, and is a real little fighter...

But sadly the ram lamb died at approximately 24hrs old.

First lambs!!

 My 8 year old ewe had twin ram lambs this morning!

Moorit!!

Sheep for sale!

 

 So it is that time of year again...!

 

The lambs have grown, the sheep are shorn, and now I really need

to sell anything that I don't plan to keep through next winter!

 

Available at this stage:

~~ 4 moorit (brown) ram lambs

 

No longer available:

~~ 1 moorit (brown) ewe hogget - SOLD

~~ 1 white ewe hogget (carries moorit) - SOLD

~~ 1 white ewe lamb (carries moorit) - SOLD

Please contact me, if interested!
More photos below...

~~ (left) White ewe - 1+ years old (born 2 Oct 2019)
~~ (centre) White ewe lamb (born 11 Aug 2020)
The ewe on the right is mum to both of them...

~~ Moorit (brown) 1+ year old ewe (born 19 Aug 2019)
She had a ram lamb this season - he may, or may not,
be one of the two ram lambs behind her in the photo

~~ four moorit (brown) ram lambs - this is one of them!
I may keep one until after tupping (for stud duties)
if I decide to lamb my sheep next spring...

2020 Lambing - Post #6 Last lamb for the season...?

This ram lamb arrived on Saturday afternoon (5th Sept) weighing about 5.5kg.

Mum was a well-grown, August-born single, born last year to my then-6yr-old ewe... I've never had a hogget lamb this early in spring, but she is probably a similar age to what some other hoggets have been when they have lambed!

I think this is my last lamb for this season, as (as I expected) I don't think the other ewe hogget is in lamb. She was Oct-born & out of a hogget mum, shows no signs of being in lamb, and I can't feel a lamb - which I should by now if she was in-lamb, as the latest possible "due" date (based on when my last ram left me) is only 3 1/2wks away.

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!

 

2020 Lambing - Post #4 Another single!

So I woke a little after 1:00 a.m. on the 20th of August hearing bleating... this BIG fellow had already arrived - he was 16 lbs / a bit over 7kg.

Mum is a 2yr old hand-raised pet, had a single lamb as a hogget last year, and was doing very well without me there to supervise!

 

I don't know which ram was the sire of this lamb (that's a first for my flock!)... The day this lamb was born was 149 days since I sold the ram lamb that I wanted this ewe bred to, at which point she went in with the 1 1/2yr old ram that I kept a bit longer...

 

He is moorit (brown), as expected, given that his mum is moorit, and both the rams I used this year were moorit... but he also shows some signs of spotting ("S-locus") genetics, with some white on his head and on the tip of his tail.

He's a lively lamb - I was watching him jumping and skipping this afternoon!

2020 lambing - Post #2 Twins!

My 7yr old ewe finally lambed on Saturday morning - at 152 days gestation! This is only the third time that I have recorded a sheep gestation over 150 days (out of 95 gestation records).

She had twins - a ram lamb and a ewe lamb. They are both moorit (brown) as expected, as their dam is moorit, and their sire was also. They both have some white on their foreheads.

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.

The last lambs of the season (2019 lambing - post #8)

 This pet ewe hogget had a ewe lamb that weighed 5kg earlier in October (2 1/2 weeks ago!). I wasn't well at the time, and am only now getting around to adding her photo to this blog!

Lambing in my flock is officially over for this year, with the birth of this 4kg black ram lamb at about 4:30am on Thursday morning!

More lambs! (2019 lambing - post #7)

This ewe hogget really surprised me with twins on Saturday evening!!

Both are ram lambs, and weighed 3kg.

Both moorit, though pretty dark moorit.

Not sure which Agouti locus allele(s) they show, but I think it will be one of the "blue" ones!

This is only the second time (in two decades) that I've had a hogget have twins. The first time was four years ago when the great-grand-dam of this hogget had twins (the female twin from that set of twins is the paternal grand-dam of this hogget)! This hogget was also from a set of triplets (the second set of triplets that her dam had).

Another lamb! (2019 lambing - post #5)

 Another 5.5kg moorit-coloured single ewe lamb arrived this afternoon, about 2:15pm. Her mum is a 2yr old.

Only hoggets (1yr olds) left to lamb... 4/5 of the lambs so far are girls! No sons by the ram hogget that I still have, and only one more girl in-lamb to him...

Another lamb! (2019 lambing - post #4)

Assisted the arrival of this ewe lamb this morning...
Mum is a hogget, and baby was 5.5kg!

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!

First few lambs... (2019 lambing - post #1)

My first set of twin lambs arrived early Sunday morning (probably just a little before 1:35am, 18/8)...
1M, 1F - and they are BOTH moorit, out of a black dam, by a moorit sire.

Then late Monday (just before 10:15pm, 19/8), this 6yr old moorit ewe had a BIG single ewe lamb, also moorit (as expected, with both parents being moorit)... But look at this lamb's face & tail! SO cute!
This marking (spotting?!) MUST be somewhat recessive, as neither dam nor sire show it!