Here they Are! 2025 Lambs!

Hey Folks here are the new info cards on all the new lambs at Brown Dog Farm. The ones who are spoken for are noted. It took me longer than I expected to get this al together but there it is. For the Adopted ewes their new names are noted. I try to not adopt out the boys, they get sold to other farms, we keep most of the ewes to build the flock but these cards are used in our marketing to other farms also, just wanted you to see all the colors and faces. I will follow up with ewes eligible for sponsorship later in the week!

Sponsored by Lilah Panitzke

This beautiful ewe is 100% sass. She learned how to skooch under the gate in the morning and would meet me on the ‘wrong’ side and wait for me to switch the lines for new pasture. She wouldnt leave the gate area though, not until mom and brother came through. She is the first to run up and chew my shirt buttons and demand scritches. Her tan/red (Phaeomelanin) spots are fading, I think soon she will look like her momma Brida, except with black bagerface markings like her pops Hamish.

Flashy Ram

Looks at those awesome nose spots. This little ram lost a horn earlier this summer , but its grown back, Sometimes they catch them in fencing or just ram each other too hard and loose a horn sheath. Its a bloody mess but they quickly recover and grow a new one. Hes a super sweet boy and loves to be scratched under the chinn

My first Moorit Katmoget ram

This ram is called Damh, not damn, darv, its scottish for Stag. His moms name is Fiadh whish is scottish for Deer, whish she resembled as a little ewe. She is a lovely fawn katmoget. Katmoget is the pattern of badgerface with dark underparts and legs, and light top of back. This little ram is shaping up to be quite a looker and would bring really nice genetics to a new flock.

Sponsored by the Jackson Family

When this little moorit ewe was born I named her Selkie. A selkie is a mythological creature found in Celtic and Norse folklore, primarily associated with the sea and shape-shifting between seal and human forms. They are typically depicted as seals in the water, but can shed their skin (often described as a seal skin) to become human on land. She was very small but loved to follow me around the barn yard instead of following her mom and brother. She is beginning to fade to lighter color and I think Latte fits her just right, Her sponsor family named her well, and I think she chose them before they really chose her!

Shishy Chocolaty Goodness

This ram is so soft and I just love those long wavy locks like his momma Boinne.

Little Miss Prim

That pretty white collar and single spot on her nose helps me pick her out of a crowd. She has the short fine fleece of her dad Gunnar. And his little white bobby socks .

Spotted Flashy Ram

Rose always gives me a flashy spotted ram. This year instead of twins she had this giant monster. He was huge when he was born. He will have big stripey horns. Hes a nice looking ram and carrys those spotting genes from both his parents.

Gorgeous Head

This ram has my heart. He has a big flashy badger face and really nice shiny soft handled fleece. I love his stocky square frame. I might keep him if no one steps up. Super friendly and beautiful confirmation.

Sweet shy ewe Sponsored by Hanna Hooly Studios

Elin has her mother’s shy nature, but oooh look at that soft warm brown fleece. So now I know Astrid has a recessive gene in there. Seeing the colors emerge in their offspring helps me see what each ewe has the potential to produce. Its so fun, learning the genetics.

Mini Me of Elsbeth

Elsbeth gave me twin ewes one black, and one moorit. They are pretty similar looking to her, but they have white tips on their tails. So cute!

The Brown Twin

Looks like her sister only brown! Both of these ewes have the personality of their sweet mother, Elsbeth, and the gorgeous fine fleece of their Dad Gunnar. Very pretty pair.

Sponsored by Hanna-Hooly Studios

It is uncanny how much this ewe looks like her mother, especially with this crazy fleece pattern, but she has a similar white flash on the side of her mouth , just like Ms Marble, her mom. She has sugar lips and probably all the black in her fleece now will grey out as the tog covers the thel as she matures. Its fun to watch the fleeces morph and change. She’s name Friday because she was born on Good Friday.

Last but Not Least

Helio was definitely an surprise. I didn’t think his mom settled. When we had shearing she didn’t even seem like she was carrying a baby, not thin at all but I never thought a month later she would start bagging up and head to the barn one afternoon and have a little lamb the next morning. We call him Helio and he didn’t really have a pack of lambs to grow up with, so our dog Scout and he became ‘fence-line friends’ . Grian, his mother, was not to happy about that, but until he was big enough to join the rest of the flock and travel out to the bigger pastures, he had to make do with Scout as a playmate. They still greet each other everyday through the fence before everyone heads out to graze.