By the end of the day she might have more drifting, and I'll change the photo. This little girl is just a sweetheart; a little bit shy so it's a real treat when she comes for scritches. I adore her fleece ... it's quite primitive and such a surreal colour. It positively glows in the sunshine.
And here is Jasmine ...
She has definitely grown up, and looks more matronly than lamb-like now. White sheep look much less attractive in the snow. And her fleece ... yikes. She got her daddy's Texel fleece; extremely dense and quite harsh, of more use to carpet makers than spinners, unfortunately. Spencer's fleece was very dense as well, so I'm really not sure what will happen with her babies.
Colour-wise, Jasmine will only have white lambs. Kivu may throw either moorit gulmoget (like herself) or possibly black. Latifah, our old girl, MAY have had a natural coloured sire, so she could go either way if that is the case.
I have NO idea if anyone is expecting ... I don't expect to see udder development until the last month, so end of February at the earliest. Because I have two first-timers and an old girl, it is quite conceivable that we will no lambs at all, which would really throw a monkey wrench into the 4H season :-).
And lastly, a quick peek at our driveway this morning. We were short on gas, so Kev (!!!) went out and did a mini blow (just enough to get the van out) and then drove (!!!) into town to pick up more gas and do some insurance stuff. I really, really, really love snow! I do. We're a misunderstood group, us snow lovers ;-).
2 comments:
Beautiful sheep.
I love snow, too!
Thank you!
Lona, those were some great storm photos you posted at your blog the other day ...
And thank you for your pro-snow vote; we are few ;-).
K.
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