I can’t help but laugh when I see photos like that. What breed is the top one? Its fleece grew strangely according to colour! I still love your original fluffy sheep best, but what a difference after shearing ))))
technically Betty is a polled Dorset crossed with a zwartbles x roussin. So the patches don’t really add up – but there is supposed to be a patchy gene often present in polled Dorset as the breed was ‘improved’ with Jacob – it would not have shown itself in the Jacob ram as it would have been patches of white on white, if you see what I mean. However, with some black Zwartbles thrown in the pool, they show up.
I can’t help but laugh when I see photos like that. What breed is the top one? Its fleece grew strangely according to colour! I still love your original fluffy sheep best, but what a difference after shearing
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the top one, Betty, is a cross breed – and I guess it shows!
well done as I know how hard shearing is, lol. Is Betty a Jacob cross? hey love your Shetland girls as well
technically Betty is a polled Dorset crossed with a zwartbles x roussin. So the patches don’t really add up – but there is supposed to be a patchy gene often present in polled Dorset as the breed was ‘improved’ with Jacob – it would not have shown itself in the Jacob ram as it would have been patches of white on white, if you see what I mean. However, with some black Zwartbles thrown in the pool, they show up.