The other day as I walked to the barn I took photos of some of the sheep.

These first few are the non-breeding group. I chose to keep a few of the March lambs out of breeding groups. If we have an opportunity to show at Black Sheep Gathering next year in June it’s good to have some yearling ewes that don’t have lambs to wean.

This is Roca (Meridian Jasper x Meridian Raquel), a nice looking 4-horn ewe.

Pecan is another nice looking 4-horn ewe who has a twin here. (Meridian Axle x Meridian Ginger)

Hazel is a tame lamb who likes forehead scratches. (Meridian Axle x Meridian Jade)

Pistachio (Unzicker Shenandoah x Windy Acres Zeus) is unrelated to any of the rest of the sheep (except for her half sibling sisters from the last couple of years) and maybe I should have put her out with the new ram, Ruby Peak Tamarisk, because her offspring would be unrelated. Next year.

The rest of these are just photos of random sheep. This is Skye who is in with Axle right now.

This is Quartz, in the pasture with Tamarisk. Notice how she wears her breakfast caught in her horns. People like to say that Jacob sheep can have six horns. Yes, they can, but there isn’t room on their heads for six really nice big horns. Here are photos of Quartz when she was younger.

Here she is at two months old.

This was taken at 10 months of age. You can see how two of the horns are starting to fuse and there isn’t much space between the others at the base.

This is a wether who is kept around as a buddy to a ram or other sheep that needs to be separated for some reason. Notice how funky his 6 horns (two fused on each side) look. As a wether the horn growth slowed dramatically but you can imagine how those horns would look if he had not been castrated and they grew as fast as intact ram horns grow. There is a lot of leeway in registration for ewes’ horns, but the Breed Standard fails rams with “undifferentiated and unbalanced set tp four-horned rams , i.e., fused in an irregular pattern on one or both sides” .