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
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~ her black ram lamb (right side of photo, by shed) may also be available!
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~ 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
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~ her single black ram lamb
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~ 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)
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~ 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!
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~ her moorit (brown) ewe lamb - born August 2019
...but I cannot tell you which lamb in the photo is the ewe lamb!!
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~ her moorit (brown) ram lamb - born August 2019, will be for sale after tupping 
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~ moorit 1+ yr old ewe - born August 2018
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~  her single moorit ewe lamb - born September 2019 
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~ moorit 2+ yr old ewe - born September 2017

She was a triplet. She was last shorn in April 2019, due to fly-strike
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~ her single moorit ewe lamb - born beginning of October 2019
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~ 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 #6)

This will be my only white lamb this lambing!
Another girl, about 3.5kg or so.
Mum is a hogget, and did very well. I wasn't even aware she was in labour until only a few minutes before the lamb was born - so a very low-stress lambing!

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!