With more than a dozen lambs doing lamby things out in the field, there is an excessive amount of ‘cute’ to be had from every vista. The important looking fellow below is Horatio, Wits End 1001, who weighed 14 pounds at birth and tipped the scales at 40 pounds at one month of age. Needless to say, he’s a sheep with attitude, and he constantly tests the patience of the ewes as he makes the rounds bumming milk, mounting other lambs of any gender and generally making a nuisance of himself. “Hey, just keeping folks entertained,” he says.
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- Horatio, Wits End 1001
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- Talk about on-the-job training — This first-time mom, Wits End Lucia, decided to go all out and have triplets. It took a few days to get organized, but this hard-working girl is feeding her brood without assistance. She is by an English-bred ram out of a line of outstanding ewes going back to sheep owned by Randy Irwin in Maryland. All of this line are worm-resistant, multiple producers and first-rate mothers. These lambs were sired by Merlin.
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- An older Kristine Schrom-bred ewe (Silver Mountain 22-184) that again earned her stripes by having triplets this year. The pair shown nursing weighed 10 and 11 pounds at birth. They were sired by Merlin.
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- First-time mom ‘Mirelle’ catching some welcome rays with her day-old lamb. She was purchased from Bill and Linda Koeppel of Cape House Farm in Michigan, and she represents some old-time ewe bloodlines that the Koeppels have used for years. The lamb was sired by Merlin.
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- Twin bluefaced leicester ewe lambs Sylvie and Dottie. Sylvie is named in honor of gourmet chef Sylvie Rowland of Laughing Duck Farm. Dottie, on the right, is so named because of her black spot.. Their mom, Madelyn, is a Carry House ewe from Brenda Lelli of Twin Birches Farm in Michigan. Dad is a black-factored son of Titanium, that incredible ram previously owned by Kelly Mansfield that won the champion natural colored long wool ram class at NAILE when he was a yearling.
