TRST

January 21, 2008

We usually sell all of the spring lambs at auction but we kept the 2007 ram lamb pictured below. He's a cross between a white ram and a Jacob ewe, born in February, 2007. Usually such lambs come out with black bodies, white spotted heads and no horns. This one is almost pure black, except for a little flash of white on the top of his head. He also seems to be developing a great set of horns, like his grandfather Quark.

We named him Trst, after the Slovenian city siezed by the Italians after World War I. They put a lot of vowels into the name and called it Trieste, just to confuse people.

Past Sheep Reports:

Surprise Lamb: October 6, 2001.
Saving Pregnant Erin: How to treat lambing ketosis.
Shearing combs make a difference.
Finally, a sheep that looks like a sheep! Meet Bouillon, our Rambouillet ram.
Change in wether.We bought an oddly matched pair of long-hair wethers.
Sheep as lawn mowers. Have you been thinking that a couple of sheep would be just the thing to keep the grass in your orchard chewed down? Maybe you should read our experiences along those lines before doing anything rash.

Jacob Genetics. Paul wrote a program to simulate the inheritance of horn number in flocks of Jacob Sheep.

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