RBST-registered purebred Soay sheep for sale: update
We usually list all our sheep for sale on the big farm website, but that requires Steve to be inside at his desk and right now he’s busy outside getting ready to set our breeding groups, so here goes.
We have two adult ewes for sale, both of whom lambed this year for the first time, both produced healthy lambs.
We have four 2017 rams for sale, two brown rams and two that were pitch black at birth. The brown rams are pictured first, and then a word about the black-at-birth rams.
If you are one of the Soay breeders who just cannot get enough of the interesting color variations in the current registered Soay sheep population in the U.S., you might want to consider purchasing either Epworth and Grantham and here’s why. As noted above, both of them were solid black at birth. Both have now “lightened” to a dusky brown or, in the case of Epworth, an arresting light purplish grey-brown color.
We have no crystal ball to tell us what they will look like in a couple of years, but we do have one living example of what is likely to happen: our ewe Darby. She also was black at birth, then by about six months lightened to a first-ever (as far as we know) light brown coat with a purplish cast, very much like Epworth’s coat and to a lesser extent, Grantham’s as well. That lasted for a few years, and now as a 6-year old ewe Darby’s coat has returned to a much darker brown. There are genetic explanations for all this, but they are for another post over the rainy months. The pictures below show Darby at these three stages of her life, and then Epworth and Grantham’s baby pictures and their current color pattern.
If you are interested in either of our proven ewes or any of our 2017 breeding rams, please contact us by either email (weaver-at-saltmarshranch-dot-com) or phone (541dash899dash1672).
For now …