Friday, February 19, 2010

Name the Lambs!



Belle is the first of the ewes to lamb this year, and she was not even one of the gals with obvious baby bumps! Doesn't she look as though she is wearing a really big, so-proud-of-myself grin? She should be: the lambs are both girls and she is taking excellent care of them!

Belle is a rambouillet/merino cross with very fine, nearly-blue-gray fleece. She was a twin, but her sister Blue (get it? Blue & Belle?) is no longer with us. No wonder - Belle will be nine years old next week!

The lambs' father is Max, our white Wensleydale ram, so who knows what sort of fleece they will have. Whatever it is, I'm sure it will be beautiful. Now we need some names!


Max and friend

2 comments:

Laura McNeal said...

What beautiful babies! Nobody does spring like Rancho Borrego Negro.

Laughingrat said...

They're such beautiful lambs! That's going to be wonderful fleece, I hope. Belle's color is very nice indeed.