overlaps with light phase and self-coloration
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 […]
So you’ve decided you want to start a small flock of Soay sheep and you have, or can put together, the infrastructure to support your new flock: pastures or a barnful of hay, secure fencing, water and shelter, and predator control appropriate to your location. But what about the starter flock itself? How many sheep […]
I just can’t resist sharing a photo I was lucky to get a few days ago. Most of our lambs are now in a sunny high dry area of our farm with their moms, and are moving off to pasture grass a weeks’ worth of lambs and mothers at a time. How the lambs love […]
A lot’s been happening on our farm since I posted a couple of weeks ago about four of our pregnant ewes we hoped would give us black Soay lambs this year. Without further ado, here’s the report on their lambs. First came Heywood with a stunning set of twins, one medium charcoal grey and the […]
Ah, the yearly dilemma of figuring out whether a Soay lamb is light phase. We Soay breeders never seem to tire of talking and fussing about it, do we? At least I don’t. I have written about it several times right here, and people tell me they find one of those posts particularly useful in […]
The third in a three-part series Part I: our 2008 AI lambs, posted March 10, 2011 Part II: our 2009 AI lambs, posted March 12, 2011 If you’ve been here recently, you know I talked at length about the increased variety of coat color and pattern in British Soay sheep as a result of bringing […]