--- In soaysheep@yahoogroups.com, "Juliet & Gordon"
<westergladstone@...> wrote:
>
> Did anyone else see the BBC breakfast news this morning (2 April). I
caught
> the last few seconds of a feature which showed a mouflon coloured
Soay ewe
> with a black lamb. Presumably a hark back to the declining numbers
of dark
> coloured sheep on Hirta which merited an earlier item.
> So whose ewe and lamb were they?
>
> Gordon who is expecting his own black Soay lambs any day now.
>
Slightly off subject here, but I used to keep Soay sheep in SW France.
We've now moved to New Zealand and I can't find them here. There are
however these Awapawa Sheep from an island of the same name between
North and South Islands of NZ. They put me in mind of hefty Soays and
the males have good horn. The story goes that Shetland Islanders did
a reconnaisance of NZ way back when and left some of their sheep and
goats on the island as a kind of living larder. Does anyone know if
the sheep were Soays or relatives of them? They look black and white
when lambs and go mouflonesque when older.