2024, Waiting on Lambs! 🤞 Happy Thoughts They're Here!😍

Baymule · Apr 17, 2024

Are there favorite colors that sell better than others?

secuono · Apr 18, 2024

Baymule said:
Are there favorite colors that sell better than others?

Haha, not really. There's purists who only want white and some of those only want white with only white in the lines. Then some like black, but they get mad when some go grey. And others like spots, but get mad when it's not loud enough and then they find out that the black areas go grey and the white areas get ticking, equalling a muddled, patchy grey sheep.

Mini Horses · Apr 18, 2024

Same with goats...crossbreds often change color between kid to adult. Fade, etc. I have one I kept was very load at birth, stunning, now looks like someone washed her in bleach water. 🙄🥴 Will be anxious to see kids from her next yr.

secuono · Apr 18, 2024

Mini Horses said:
Same with goats...crossbreds often change color between kid to adult. Fade, etc. I have one I kept was very load at birth, stunning, now looks like someone washed her in bleach water. 🙄🥴 Will be anxious to see kids from her next yr.

Magnemite over the years. Can see how blah he ends up in winter. Better when shorn, but it's changing as well.

secuono · Apr 18, 2024

Kauri, stillwantingon her.

3 ewes let out of jugs to barn.

Barn ewes from before were let out to barnyard. Today, those and the older barnyard ones moved together in with the backyard ewes, and then all into both sideyards.

And the yearlings and expecting ewes.

secuono · Apr 18, 2024

Someone was happy with the move.

Also moved the horses, so the other pasture will grow back in. Lgd let back in that area.
Gotta better secure the original 4 acres pastures. Don't want another escaped and dead dog...
this one has hot wire top and bottom.

Finnie · Apr 18, 2024

secuono said:
Who?

This one, that you said too bad he’s a ram, won’t keep him.

secuono said:
He's 9.99#. Mom is pretty small, so that's a big lamb, but big for regular ewes, too.
And I was wrong, he also has agouti markings on the face! Too bad he's a ram, won't keep him.
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Since you didn’t want to keep him in the first place, then it’s a moot point about his color. I thought maybe he had special color.

secuono · Apr 19, 2024

Finnie said:
This one, that you said too bad he’s a ram, won’t keep him.

Since you didn’t want to keep him in the first place, then it’s a moot point about his color. I thought maybe he had special color.

Agouti is the wrong color in the breed, but since the original sheep were unknown breeds, its possibly normal for it to exist, so I've kept ewes with it to see what happens. For rams, I'm far too picky to keep one just for almost invisible agouti. Rams do nothing 10 months of the year, other than take up space and eat my money.