I have been following the messages about black soays recently as two years ago
we had our first self black soay lamb born and I was delighted to see it was
female. Last year she produced another black female lamb and today we have
another black lamb born. I cannot figure out how after fifteen years of mixed
colours we were suddenly seeing black and also self brown lambs being born. The
chocolate brown ones have been male and I still have them both, just in case
anyone is interested in doing a swap later in the year. The self black ewe is
quite large compared to other ewes and we also had a grey ewe born two years ago
who has yet to produce any offspring, and she is much smaller than usual almost
tiny, but has grown quite a significant wooly mane, Strange!
Jacqui Tucker
jstucker@...

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