Any sheep owners on here?!

[Honey_Silvas]

These are my bottle babies. They are my first sheep. They are both boys from different mothers but same father. I am not sure what breed they are, except that they are hair sheep.

This is Ben. He came to us because his mom couldn't feed him. We got him the day he was born and he has adapted very well to house life. He loves to lay in your lap while you watch tv.

This is Chase. He is about 4 days younger than Ben. We got him because the coyotes were getting the new born sheep. He spent one night and day with his mom. He took a little longer but he is starting to get the hang of living inside. They also spend time outside when the weather is nice. They love gumming the clover in the yard.









Here they are checking out the house together. They like the carpet, but are not fond of the slippery floor in the kitchen.

 

[purplequeenvt]

We raise Border Leicesters!





Steve the Wonder Sheep - and yes, Steve is a girl.

One of our 2011 lambs.



A bottle lamb and Meg the Border Collie.



We brought Hera, an almost yearling ewe, to church as a illustration for the AWANA program.



We also have a small flock of crossbred commercial ewes and 3 Shetland ewes.

 

[zzGypsy]

These are my bottle babies. They are my first sheep. They are both boys from different mothers but same father. I am not sure what breed they are, except that they are hair sheep.

sooooo sweet!
Guessing Ben is maybe katahdin and Chase is Barbados Blackbelly cross (is he white on top? barbados are tan-and-black, no white)

how are you managing the housebreaking? I haven't found sheep to be particularly aware of where they're doing their business...

 

[MNShepherdess]

These are my bottle babies. They are my first sheep. They are both boys from different mothers but same father. I am not sure what breed they are, except that they are hair sheep.

This is Ben. He came to us because his mom couldn't feed him. We got him the day he was born and he has adapted very well to house life. He loves to lay in your lap while you watch tv.

This is Chase. He is about 4 days younger than Ben. We got him because the coyotes were getting the new born sheep. He spent one night and day with his mom. He took a little longer but he is starting to get the hang of living inside. They also spend time outside when the weather is nice. They love gumming the clover in the yard.









Here they are checking out the house together. They like the carpet, but are not fond of the slippery floor in the kitchen.

Just wait til you're having lamb races Mario Cart style...lol. I.e. slipping on the linoleum is part of the fun!

 

[zzGypsy]

<sigh> see here's the problem with sheep. I don't care what breed they are, I just want all of them. something about their little faces.
loooooooove the sheepies.

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

Chase's marking resmble those of the Painted Desert Sheep:

http://www.lazyjvranch.com/pds_sheep_tails.html

 

[Honey_Silvas]

sooooo sweet!
Guessing Ben is maybe katahdin and Chase is Barbados Blackbelly cross (is he white on top? barbados are tan-and-black, no white)

how are you managing the housebreaking? I haven't found sheep to be particularly aware of where they're doing their business...

Chase is not white on top, he's tan, it just looks white in the picture. Both of their mothers are tan with black underbellies and face and ears. Kind of like Chases' black markings. The father was on the other side of the pasture when I saw him and just lookd white horns that curled around.

They are in pampers actually. I just took them off for the pictures.

 

[Honey_Silvas]

Chase's marking resmble those of the Painted Desert Sheep:

http://www.lazyjvranch.com/pds_sheep_tails.html

Those are very pretty sheep. Maybe that is what his father was, I saw some pictures of painted desert rams that were white on top with colors on bottom. The ram I saw looked white from where I was, but I may not have been able to see all of him. The mother was a tan or brown color with black markings on her underbelly and face and ears.

 

[zzGypsy]

Chase is not white on top, he's tan, it just looks white in the picture. Both of their mothers are tan with black underbellies and face and ears. Kind of like Chases' black markings. The father was on the other side of the pasture when I saw him and just lookd white horns that curled around.

They are in pampers actually. I just took them off for the pictures.

all-over tan with black underneath are typically barbados blackbelly - at least that's the most common breed with that coloring. most common breed of all-white hair sheep around here is katahdin, they have a slender nose-bridged, clean-lined face, with the young and the ewes sometimes showing the dished profile Ben has. the rams somtimes get more of the roman nose as they mature, but overall their faces always look clean and finer boned to me than many of the breeds.

Bear: I wasn't familiar with the painted desert sheep - those are pretty! and their black and tan markings come from the barbados blackbelly lines, so it makes sense they'd share a color pattern.

 

[zzGypsy]

White Dorper is the other all white hair sheep we see quite a bit of.. but they're heavy heavy bodied and often shorter legged, and definitely don't have the refined faces that the katahdins do.

good photos of the white dorpers here: http://www.texasdorpers.com/
and of the katahdins here: http://www.katahdins.org/ see the gallery page