As you may know we have the oldest and largest flock of these unique sheep in Australia. I previously posted about them here: Finnsheep. These sheep are a fine longwool type who normally raise triplets or quads in paddock conditions. Some pre-lambing photos. The ewes are expected to start lambing within about a week of these snaps. That will keep us busy. I will update this with some lamb photos in a little while.
A group of particularly gravid ewes looking very content with life.
You can see that these two are bagging up.
A UNSW/Sheepak type longwool ewe clearly with quads inside
A longwool mother and daughter team.
A good solid ewe.
Two ancient 12 year olds (going back a bit actually) but both raised quads in the paddock last year (and the year before etc) and look as if they will try to do so again.
29/07/2021: The very first lambs for 2021 from a very old ewe, disappointingly only twins but two 4kg approx lambs at 144 days gestation, a ewe and ram lamb so not too bad. Lots of spectators. Notice how she has had them in the corner of the paddock for protection.
30/07/2021 Lambing Day 2: The very first triplets of the year (but there will be many more) from ewe 6059. Three very sound ewe lambs (4.5, 4.0 & 3.5 kg). Someone will get lucky here.
31/07/2021 Doing nicely”
BTW: We still have 4 Finn-Texel ewes (for our own ‘table’ use) when once we had around 1,000. Still think they are one of the best crossbred sheep you could own. Always raise twins. Look at this lovely milky ewe:
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