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Breeding Groups 2010

I think I have made my final decisions after writing it down 100 times since summer, typing it out on my computer, and rechecking my thoughts every time I visit the ewes or the rams.  So here they are, to be put together by the end of October:

Swiftriver Neville AI (black...may carry spots)

- Twin Springs Cotton Candy (fawn smirslet)

- Mapleton Carmel Apple (fawn katmoget)

- Mapleton Peanut Brittle (moorit)

- Mapleton Peep (musket HST)

- Minwawe Pearl (grey yuglet flecket)

- Minwawe Marshmello (white with grey yuglet markings) 

Mapleton Zeus (fawn katmoget)

- Harvest Thyme Quechee (black gulmoget)

- Mapleton Destiny (black and white flecket)

- Mapleton Violet (black HST)

- Minwawe Sprinkles (light moorit flecket)

- Hershey the Corrie cross

- Spooky the Cheviot

Harvest Thyme Champ (mioget half poll)

- High Bid Hester (black)

- Pike Hill Olympia (fawn gully)

- Mapleton Opal (fawn kat)

Mapleton Storm will be clean up ram for Champ, and Spring Hill Patches will clean up for Neville, as both are unproven.  I might add a ewe lamb or two  to the clean up group or groups late in the season.  I was thinking Hope to Patches group, at the very least.  Also thinking about finding a buck for Whistle.  That would give me about 17 bred, and roughly 21 Shetland lambs, 4 cross breeds, and 2 goat kids.  That is only a few more than the past two years, so certainly manageable.  I will post pictures of the groups once they are together.  Here's to the wait!  I better start knitting and spinning to keep my mind off of it!

My wish list this year includes a modified ewe lamb, a gully ewe lamb, and a nice soft grey ewe lamb which is why Neville is getting all my Ag ewes.  Out of the 9 ewes not on Zeus' list, he is related to 6 of them.  I love my Hester & Zeus daughter from this year so I could be tempted to repeat that pairing, but I really would like to see if I could get a full poll ram lamb out of her as her first lamb was a ram with very small scurrs.  She has only given me black so I am also thinking I could get an emsket with Champ.  Although Zeus may carry modified as his mom Olympia is fawn.  The other two not on Zeus' list are ones that have produced something similar that I have kept.  I have Pearl's daughter with Zeus' grandfather Kermit (Opal), and Marshmello's daughter with Zeus' dad Cooper (Peep).  So I thought I'd try something different this time around.

Fall Roving

Black roving %100 Shetland (some white fibers from the white markings and iset fibers):  Violet, Serendipppity, and Hester.  The brown %100 Shetland: Cha Cha, Libby, and Peanut.  The new roving back from the mill shown below with yarn bow of the opposite color.

So I have many shades of browns, blacks, greys, taupe, off whites, and white.  In %100 Shetland, Alpaca blends, and Mohair blends.  Prices range from $2.50 to $4.00 an ounce depending on the blend and if it is lamb or adult fleece.  Inquire for more information.  Click on roving label to see more pictures of other colors available.  We also have some mill spun yarn in brown, black, white, and grey in Alpaca/Wool blends.

Assorted Flock Photos

 Pike Hill Olympia

 Minwawe Sprinkles

 Mapleton Storm

 High Bid Hester

 Mapleton Peanut Brittle

 Can Too Sky

 Twin Springs Cotton Candy

 Harvest Thyme Quechee

 Minwawe Marshmello

 Minwawe Pearl and Mapleton Violet

 Spring Hill Patches

Mapleton Carmel Apple

Edit to last post...

I might give Patches one adult ewe and the largest ewe lamb.  I don't think I will use Stormy this year but he will have a large group next year.  Champ is still for sale, available for pick up after Novemeber 21st.  Make an offer if you want to try out some polled genetics...he is a half poll.  I was asking $200 but will consider all reasonable offers. Patches and Storm picutred below:

2010 Flock Sires

These are the rams I am planning to use this fall.  Mapleton Zeus a yearling fawn katmoget on the left.  Harvest Thyme Champ a yearling mioget half poll in the center.  And the new ram at the farm...a two year old, Swiftriver Neville, who is a F1 Heights Orion son (in layman terms it means he is the product of imported "straw" from an UK sire and his mother was artificially inseminated).  His registered color is black but he almost looks like a really dark brown or Shetland black.  The rammie lambies are sitting out this round unless I decide to breed  my two largest ewe lambs, then I will give one to each of them:  Mapleton Storm a moorit HST and Spring Hills Patches a grey maybe even emsket smirslet katmoget.  Can you believe it is almost that time of year already!?

Meet the flock: 2010 Keeper Ewe Lambs + one

Mapleton Hope (Minwawe Bahama X Minwawe Serendippity)

Mapleton Bella (Minwawe Bahama X Minwawe Cha Cha)

Mapleton Cupcake (Minwawe Bahama X Minwawe Sprinkles)

Mapleton Silvermist (Mapleton Zeus X High Bid Hester)

The Plus One:

Can Too Sky (Can Too Cherokee X Can Too Delilah)

Updated Photo of the Cheviot/Shetland Cross