Well I guess the title is a bit of a giveaway!
A couple of days ago the weather was
good so I went to take some pictures of the sheep. There were two
images I really wanted to capture, one being the difference in the
coat of a wool lamb and a hair lamb, and the other was a picture of
Diamond's twins (born on October 17) and Girlie's triplets (born onOctober 8) to show how much bigger Diamond's lambs are.
I was able to get one picture of a wool
lamb and a hair lamb but the picture won't be winning any awards for
cute lambs because I was never able to get them close together until
they were walking away from me. These two are twins, their mother,
Blackie sheep is part wool but has a bit of hair sheep in her too.
The father is a hair sheep. You can see the lamb with more white
inherited more genes for the hair coat, while the other lamb
inherited genes for wool, and his coat is much shorter, and the poor
guy has a harder time with the colder days.
The other planned picture of Diamond's big
lambs next to Girlie's smaller lambs did not happen, the sheep were
not cooperative. Diamond is a larger ewe but I think there were also
other reasons why her lambs are so massive; she produces the most
milk of any of our sheep, and with her lambs being twins it is normal
they would be larger than triplets. I think Diamond may have been
over due too. The white lamb is the ram lamb and he is bigger than the black ewe lamb.
At any rate I was a bit disappointed
with my photography that day, but as the weather has turned worse
(today was –12 C with a bitter wind) I will not be going out to
take more pictures for a little while.
For my friends and readers in the
United States I wish to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving. If you
are a pet owner I want to share with you this link to awesome BlackFriday shopping specials and deals from many companies. Some of
these deals start now, and others are good until December, while a
few are strictly for the Black Friday weekend and Cyber Monday (all
dates are indicated).
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