Since our two old girls presented us with mostly freezer lamb, we were one 4H lamb short. It has worked out beautifully. We have had a VERY generous offer; Bill Stearman, of WillowGarden Shetlands (www.willowgardenshetlands.com), that morphed into an insanely generous offer due to Bill's e-mail not functioning properly. Basically, he offered us a nice ewe and ewe lamb, we took him up on the offer and sent a couple of e-mails which he never got, and he sold the sheep yesterday. Last night the e-mail problems were discovered.
He has instead offered us the use of this lovely pair over the summer (we feed them, and Claire gets use of the ewe lamb for 4H. We do have the option to buy in the fall.) The ewe is WillowGarden Billie Holiday, a moorit smirslet gulmoget two year old ewe (likely the first smirslet gulmoget in North America ... ;-) with her mioget gulmoget ewe lamb, WillowGarden Kivu.
The words like "moorit", "smirslet" etc. are Scottish terms for colour and pattern of fleece in Shetland sheep. So Billie Holiday is a moorit (brown or rich fawn-coloured), smirslet (with white on face) gulmoget (with a pattern like a doberman; dark body with lighter points and eye flashes). Gulmogets are quite rare still in North America. The lamb is still unknown; she will be either moorit, like her mom, or mioget ( a lovely golden colour), and also is the gulmoget pattern. Lambs exhibiting the gulmoget pattern look like dobermans!
He has instead offered us the use of this lovely pair over the summer (we feed them, and Claire gets use of the ewe lamb for 4H. We do have the option to buy in the fall.) The ewe is WillowGarden Billie Holiday, a moorit smirslet gulmoget two year old ewe (likely the first smirslet gulmoget in North America ... ;-) with her mioget gulmoget ewe lamb, WillowGarden Kivu.
The words like "moorit", "smirslet" etc. are Scottish terms for colour and pattern of fleece in Shetland sheep. So Billie Holiday is a moorit (brown or rich fawn-coloured), smirslet (with white on face) gulmoget (with a pattern like a doberman; dark body with lighter points and eye flashes). Gulmogets are quite rare still in North America. The lamb is still unknown; she will be either moorit, like her mom, or mioget ( a lovely golden colour), and also is the gulmoget pattern. Lambs exhibiting the gulmoget pattern look like dobermans!
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