Congratulations! I'm envious! I still don't have any ewes looking close. I'm beginning to wonder if my rams did their job! Why don't you post some photos for...
Hi Elizabeth, I'm sorry not to have answered you sooner, but for some reason neither Steve nor I got your posting. Very odd. I just found it by accident...
Woohoo!! First Lamb! I was scolding Piper today and asking her where my lambs were! LOL! Both Gazelle and Piper are looking pretty chubby, but I don't know how...
Thank you, Pricilla!! I don't know whether we have money for panels right now, but maybe I'll go down to Black Sheep and see if I can talk to them directly...
You're welcome to come, but today and tomorrow I have appointments. Husband will be home today though if you feel so inclined. I think two more are getting...
Gevan, horses and ponys can act strangly around babies. horse breeders will not let there mares and foals out with geldings, because a gelding will kill the...
Well, we found lamb number nine this morning! - but his mom has NO milk -- so off he went to Clemson university and he was a VERY BIG hit in law and accounting...
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Claudia Pettis had two lambs that were bottlefed from birth by Susie and Kelly Williams on Whidbey Island last summer. I adopted them at about two months of...
Hi Virginia, I have always been told the worst thing you can do is give a lamb cows milk. You need a lamb milk replacer which comes in a powder form which you...
I cannot beleiee this little lamb can survive on his diet. Powdered lamb milk replacer is what you must get, not the all species replacer that claims to serve...
Hi all who wrote to me, I have received the DVDs from England and will ship them out as soon as payment is recieved. It is very good and gives a very good idea...
I will mail check for two tonight. The envelope is waiting. Claudia Pettis Kathleen Miller <lists@...> wrote: Hi all who wrote to me, I have received...
Although not Soays, the lady across from us has 2 katahdin ewes and 7 Am. blackbelly ewes, all with one white katahdin ram. This morning there were 7 white...
When we fed milk replacers, we ended up with babies that had the runs, regardless of how "rich" or weak we made it.... we have had really great results with...
Fellow Soay enthusiasts, Please join us in welcoming a whole bunch of wonderful new photos to the OFP Gallery from Carol Fraley at Wind River Soay. Carol's...
The katahdins tend to have "freckles" of color. Some are more of a solid color or with larger patches of color. Geneticly I do not know what that is called. ...
Hello again from the OFP Gallery, We have been asked why the photos in the Gallery are grouped by flock prefix rather than by owner's name. We also have heard...
Maybe everyone but me knew about this, but the heretofore out-of-print classic work "Sheep and Man" has been reprinted and is available from Amazon.com in the...
The OFP is a fantastic resource with or without the pictures and it's taken a huge investment in time, energy and financial resources for you guys to get it up...
Hi Gevin, This is very good news. The last copy I saw for sale was $250. In spite of being published nearly 25 years ago it is still the most comprehensive...
Again, the idea of a Soay Library comes to mind. Such a thing would be possible if we were to form a Soay Breeders and Fanciers Club or something. While $100...
Good morning Dawn Turbyfill, We were pleased to wake up this morning and find you signed in at the OFP Gallery so you can begin submitting pictures of your...
Steve and I are pleased to announce the first three "theme" albums in the OFP Gallery: 1. An album of self-colored, dark phase Soay, what we all commonly...
YAY!! Thank you for all your hard work, Pricilla & Steve! I was just thinking today about how I'd like to be able to search OFP in some way for black or blonde...
I talked to my mom tonight and primed her for hosting another Great Sheep Exchange in September, just in case you all need a place to trade those cute babies...
If you have not yet ordered and gotten your copy of the new CD by Michael Darlow that Kathie is distributing here, I urge you to go ahead and order a copy....
Did all of you see the note from Angela about gathering at her mom's place again this year? Is this graciousness beyond the call of duty, or what? I would...