2009 Lambs
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| First Lamb of the Year! Born on 4/5/09, this single moorit mouflon ram lamb (left) is growing like a weed! Mom is 'Gothi', a 6 yr old moorit mouflon who has silvered quite a lot. She has a beautiful handspinning fleece, and up until this year has always produced twins. Dam: PSS EWE M4P 322N Sire: ACW SPT RAM 29U |
| Kadlin (above) decided to have her first lambs just before dark on 4/11/09. She is a 2 yr old moorit badgerface, and had no problem birthing her first twins. She had a moorit badgerface ewe followed by a solid moorit ram. Since Kadlin is Gothi's daughter, these are the 'grand lambs' of the ewe who lambed first this year. They will probably both be for sale. Dam: SLG KADLIN EWE M3C 12T Sire: ACW SPT RAM 29U |
| Dalla (above) lambed the morning of 4/18/09. She is a large 2 yr old black badgerface ewe with a very dense fleece, and is a first time mom. She had a black badgerface ram and, sadly, a very small stillborn solid black ram. Her surviving lamb is growing nicely, and she is a devoted mother. This lamb will be for sale. Dam: SLG DALLA EWE B3C 16T Sire: ACW SPT RAM 29U |
| On 4/25/09 Solveg surprised me with spotted lambs. She is a 2 yr. old black badgerface/mouflon ewe, and I had no idea she carried spotting! She had twin ewes, one 'normal' size and one very small. The larger one is a spotted black badgerface. The tiny one, while mostly white, has enough color on her head to prove that she is a spotted black mouflon! (hard to see in photo, but her lower jaw and throat are tan). The little one is currently a 'house lamb', being raised on a bottle. I don't know yet if either of these lambs will be for sale. Dam: SLG SOLVEG EWE B34 20T Sire: ACW SPT RAM 29U |
| And more SPOTS! On 4/26/09 Birna surprised me with a spotted moorit ram lamb. She is a 4 yr. old solid moorit, and never showed any indication that she carried spotting! (being a recessive trait, a lamb must get a spotting gene from each parent to show a spotted pattern) This is a big lamb, tipping the scales at almost 13 lbs. when he was 2 days old! He will be for sale. Dam: SLG BIRNA EWE M5C 02R Sire: ACW SPT RAM 29U |
| Yet one more surprise for this year: On 4/29/09 Svala (above) presented me with 2 lovely moorit mouflon ewe lambs! This 5 yr. old black mouflon ewe has always produced black lambs. I didn't know she carried moorit! (like the spotting, moorit is recessive, so both parents must pass on the gene for a moorit lamb to be born) At least one of these lambs will be for sale. Dam: PSS EWE B4P 415P Sire: ACW SPT RAM 29U |
| Ragnar, ACW SPT RAM 29U is the sire of all of my 2009 lambs. He is a 2008 solid moorit spotted ram. While he is not clean polled he has very small 'acorn' scurs. His mother is a very milky ewe from Susan Mongold's flock and his sire is a nice spotted ram from Alan & Valerie Olness in South Dakota. Ragnar has nice confirmation, a beautiful fleece and a nice disposition. (see photo at left) He carries the Askur AI line |
