How About More Sheep Photos?

I know that I shared sheep photos in the last post, but can there ever be too many sheep photos?

You can’t get a good look at Pecan because of the coat. We’ll take a peek under the coat on Saturday when Farm Club will be here for our annual Fleece Preview the week before Shearing. This is where Farm Club members can reserve their favorite fleece and we check to make sure that all sheep are easily identified by ear tags that match my list. I don’t know how many people will come because things are scaled back due to the pandemic.

This is Pecan’s sister, Sandie.

You saw Cashew in the last post, but it was just a head shot. She has a head worthy of a head photo, but the rest of her is pretty nice too.

What’s with the names? These ewes were born in 2020. The pandemic started and there were no field trips and not many Farm Club members came. I was also still recovering from the severe injury I had in October, 2019. So the sheep didn’t get their usual amount of handling or interaction with people. Not that most of my sheep are pets, and the lambs aren’t tame at all in the beginning, but they do get used to people being around and used to be handled. These lambs were noticeably more nutty than in other years. One of the Farm Club members suggested that as a naming theme, so nuts it was for most of them. I guess you could say that Sandie is a stretch, but we all know of Pecan Sandie (the cookie), right?

Hazel fits the theme for the name if you think of Hazelnuts, but not in personality. She is Jade’s daughter and is as tame as her mom.

Now that I’m putting these photos together I realize that it’s the yearlings I chose for coats. That’s three so far. I think there are only five coated sheep in the flock. This ewe is Coco (nut).

Roca, with a lot of nice, dark fleece.

Speaking of sheep with lots of nice dark fleece, this is Beauty. She is not part of the nut theme because she was born in 2021. Her name was chosen by my granddaughter because Kirby owns her dam, Belle, also named by Kirby. Think of the naming theme a young girl might choose—Disney princesses.

This is Belle, a ewe considered to be lilac (gray brown markings on the face instead of black, but it’s hard to see in this photo).

This is one of my all-time favorite photos, taken after Kirby, age 5, showed Belle at the State Fair. What better ribbon to win than a 4th place PINK ribbon?

Kirby showing off the handspun blanket I wove from Belle’s fleece for Christmas, 2020. That brown is typical of a “lilac” fleece.

Belle and Beauty, March 2021. Beauty doesn’t have the best Jacob spotting pattern in her fleece, but that’s not what is important in this case.

When Kirby was here for about 10 days last summer (now age 7) she worked with the sheep every day helping me halter break the lambs. We included Belle in the pen so she would get some attention too.

I got off track from the original intent of this blog post, but it’s still about sheep!