Pea
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Frosty SheepQuite cold last night, poor sheep have frost on their backs. They are supposed to be black.
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Rob R
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Lovely pictures Pea 
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dpack
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so long as the frost is on the outside they wont mind
at the risk of seeming very wrong
pretty sheep
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Nanny
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they are pretty sheep
you are not wrong
or misguided
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Marionb
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Lovely pics, Pea - and lovely sheep too!!
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suomi
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lovely sheep Pea, we have sheep here, they can go into the barn if they want but seem to prefer staying outside all the time, even when its down to minus 20oc! tough old things! well actually they are used to it being native Finnish sheep.
they have a mighty thick fleece and eat plenty!
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judith
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So your walkabout sheep all came back home eventually then? 
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suomi
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yes one morning, five days after they went walk about a guy wandered across our field closely followed by our sheep! they were fine.
they have now been slaughtered and we now have five ewes in lamb,should lamb about march.
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judith
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Brrr. Nights in the lambing shed in Finland 
Hope you have some good thermal undies
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suomi
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oh yes and a hot brandy seems to help as well
thats for me,not the sheep! although Im sure theyd have some too if they could! it could be a busy time as last year our friends ewes were extremly productive, most of them had twins,a couple had triplets and one even had FIVE! they all survived and were healthy,although he did have to help out and do some bottle feeding!
it seems its unusual to have single lambs!
this will be our first lambing experience gulp! so it could be mighty interesting!
so if your free and fancy "an experience" feel free to join us!
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Barefoot Andrew
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May someone needs to knit sheep-coats for them. Would dressing a sheep in a woollen garment be a bit perverse?
A.
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Bog Spavin
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brrrrrrrrrr........ What lovely atmespheric pics!
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mochyn
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That's what woolly jumpers are for, Pea! Are they Balwens? Good looking animals.
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Treacodactyl
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| dpack wrote: | at the risk of seeming very wrong
pretty sheep |
Whenever I see the thread title I keep thinking "a double vodka will break the ice and get her chatting". 
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Vanessa
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Lovely sheep! Are they Zwarbles? Look like them. 5 lambs from one ewe ... WOW!!
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VSS
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Zwartbles rams don't have horns.
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Marionb
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They are Balwens.
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mochyn
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Yay: I win the 'name that sheep' challenge!
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Vanessa
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Lovely looking sheep! So, Balwens lamb profusely ... and presumably fairly easily (given that several have triplets and the quins you mentioned!!)? I wonder if they're available in France ... 
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VSS
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The Finnish sheep are the prolific ones I think you'll find, not the Balwens.
Finn X Dorset are popular ewes in UK for prolific early lambing flocks.
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LynneA
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Balwens are escapologists. And small enough to get through gaps impossible to most other sheep,
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VSS
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Like most of the Welsh breeds - they'll crawl up their own backsides to escape.
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Marionb
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| VSS wrote: | The Finnish sheep are the prolific ones I think you'll find, not the Balwens.
Finn X Dorset are popular ewes in UK for prolific early lambing flocks. |
I've never heard of Finn sheep - what do they look like? (I've got a couple of Dorsets, hence the interest)
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VSS
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Similar to the Friesland milk sheep, if I remember correctly, but it's a long time since I worked with that breed so I may be mixing them up in my mind. Either will do to cross with the Dorset to produce an excellent early lambing ewe. I remember having over 200% lambing from Finn/Dorset ewe lambs in December! The adult ewes performed better still.
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Pea
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| LynneA wrote: | | Balwens are escapologists. And small enough to get through gaps impossible to most other sheep, |
That is one thing I have not had any problems with this breed. I used to have a few suffolk mules and they were always getting out on to the tow path. I have a few palces they could escape easily but they have not bothered.
As far as I know they usually lamb single the first year and twins there after.
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