I agree about the beauty, Nancy. The mother ewe is 50% Dorper and 50% American Blackbelly. I have mixed my blackbellies with dorpers for quite a while to make the lambs a little bigger, and I get beautiful colors besides.
Rick Krachin Auburn, CA > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:31:24 -0500 > From: Nancy Johnson <imgr8a...@comcast.net> > To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info > Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] Birth of a lamb in 11 minutes: > Message-ID: <c527410b-d1db-4d50-b58a-e215e27e9...@comcast.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Rick, > > These are beautiful lambs and their mother is very pretty. I am still new to > the sheep world, but my sister in law has sheep just like this and they are > painted desert sheep, not blackberry's. They are related, their father was a > pure-bred blackbelly, but the mother was a painted desert. The ewe who gave > birth in these photos, she is a painted desert sheep right, she's not pure > blackbelly? > > > > > On Feb 13, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Rick Krach wrote: > > > Here is the set of pictures I took yesterday morning as this white > > blackbelly lamb was born. If you look at each picture individually you can > > see the exact seconds between the birthing steps. The whole process took > > about 11 minutes. > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/96352750@N05/sets/72157640940100064/ > > > > Rick Krach > > in Auburn, CA _______________________________________________ This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info
