Sheep Portraits

I was taking photos today so that I could update the lamb pages on my website. I found myself taking portraits as well.

The ewe lambs have the white ear tags in the left ear. All the colored tags are color-coded by sire. It’s sometimes useful to be able to sort by sire, but it is also very helpful to look for one of five colors when trying to find one particular lamb out of 90. This is ewe lamb 2223 (Meridian Silverado x Meridian Cashew).

Ewe lamb 2234 is a triplet (Ruby Peak Tamarisk x Meridian Betty).

Ram lamb 2243 is a triplet (Meridian Rambler x Meridian Raquel. Notice that he has five horns. There isn’t much room for all those horns on his right. He won’t be kept as a registered ram due to the way the horns are developing.

Ram lamb 2265 looks promising, but it’s too soon to tell if his horns will continue to grow as wide as they look now. (Ruby Peak Tamarisk x bide a wee Trista). An advantage of this ram is that he is unrelated to most of the other sheep in the flock.

Ewe lamb 2281 (Meridian Rambler x Meridian Quora).

Ewe lamb 2291 (Hillside Gabby’s Barrett x Meridian Columbine) was the last lamb born this year. She is the only one with a name so far—April.

This is April’s dam, Meridian Columbine.

Another ewe with nice-looking four horns. This is Meridian Janna.

This ewe has one of the nicest set of four horns here. She is a yearling that I got last summer. Patchwork Bettylou.

This is Patchwork Townes, a 2-year old lilac ram that came from the same Georgia farm as Bettylou. He came only a couple of months ago so he isn’t the sire of any of this year’s lambs. He’ll get his chance this October.

Here is another ram unrelated to the flock, Hillside Gabby’s Barrett. He is just a year old now but has lambs that were born in March.

Meridian Axis is another ram who just turned a year old. He also has lambs in the flock this year. He is a lilac ram. Lilac is the color variation in Jacob sheep that is not black, but a brown-gray shade.