Hooray! Our first two lambs arrived this weekend! We don't know which of our two rams are the sire this year because life got a little too crazy last fall and we didn't do separate breeding pastures. So any that I wish to register with the JSBA this year can't be any higher than FF (Foundation Flock). Not a terrible loss since the ones we bought last spring are all there anyways. Next year we will do some more testing as far as what the ram's genes look like, Abe especially.
But, so far it looks like we've got good genes on at least the ewe's side!
#1 comes from one of our newly-bought ewes. Her four horns are gorgeously set and she's nicely spotted. Her little ram lamb is also. He also has 3-4 horn buds as far as I can tell as yet.
#2 came from a Khatadin-Jacob crossed ewe lamb. Except for the eye split in one of his left eyes, he's also very nice looking as far as the Jacob genes are concerned. In fact, the only reason I might know him to be 1/4 Khatadin would be if he was polled! I'm not sure where the gene causing the eye split came from: mama, grandma, Abe or Tierny. My most likely suspect I think may be from his mother's dam but I don't know who that is anymore. No matter what, he sure is cute!
Well, I expect to post more lamb updates this week! I'll be going to go check on them again later tonight because there was one yearling who was showing signs of labor earlier.
So Far, so good! *knock on wood!*
