I will introduce some of the lambs who have been chosen to stay here as part of the flock. I’ve been trying to get decent photos so I can get these lambs registered and also update the website for those that are still for sale.

I have sold so many 4-horn sheep that my goal was to keep some for myself. But there are certainly redeeming features to 2-horn sheep as well.

We often have a naming theme for the year. One of the Farm Club members suggested nuts because this year’s lamb crop was so NUTTY. This was due to the pandemic and stay-at-home orders and I had no field trips or farm club days. The lambs had minimal handling and every time I caught one of them she acted beserk. I have worked with all of these that I’m keeping and they are all halter broke and calmer now. The rest of the lambs are also calmer as I have handled all of them a little more.

This is Hazel (as in Hazelnut). She is the daughter of Jade, our friendliest sheep, and she has learned from her mom that it is a good thing to be friendly. You get head scratches and grain treats. Her sire is Axle, a ram with two horns.

Another two horn ewe, but look at that nice spread to her horns. She is out of a ewe with great 4-horns and a beautiful fleece but mom is going to go live with a breeder in the Midwest. So Coco (think cocoNUT) is on my Keep List. (Meridian Jasper x Meridian Ruthie)

Here is Pistachio. She is unrelated to most of the flock (Windy Acres Zeus x Unzicker Shenandoah). It I ever get another ram for elsewhere she would be a good candidate to breed to him with the hope of getting a ram lamb that is unrelated to everyone. That is always a struggle with a small flock. I have three adult rams right now and I don’t have any (adult or lamb) that aren’t related to many of the ewes.

Meridian Cashew (Meridian Jasper x Meridian Dilly). The parents are both 4-horned sheep with lovely fleeces. She is growing nice strong horns.

Meridian Sandie (as in Pecan Sandie)…

…and her sister, Pecan. Meridian Axle x Meridian Ginger. Both are beautiful lambs. Notice the color of these sheep. Sandie is black and white and Pecan is a good example of what Jacob breeders call lilac—a gray/brown color instead of black in the facial markings and the wool.

Here is a pretty lamb that wasn’t originally on my Keep list but could may be now. The problem is that I can’t keep them all. (Meridian Jasper x bide a wee Marion). Her mom is from a well known Oregon flock and stayed here when they visited in 2018 for the Jacob Sheep Breeders annual meeting that I hosted.