Look what Santa brought us!

A Christmas baby! This isn't the first time we have had a Christmas lamb, which is strange since we rarely have December babies at all. A few years ago we had Nickolas born on Christmas too. He was a black and white pinto, and we raised him as a bottle baby, because his mother didn't take him. This baby is from that same line. Bliz was Nickolas's mother, and she was our first ewe to lamb every single year, and she always twinned, and always rejected one baby. We sold her. This baby's mother is Cornflower (see picture below - that's a cousin, Shooting Star, standing with the lamb above). Cornflower is a Bliz granddaughter, and has been a great mother, but then she hasn't twinned either. It's interesting that things like lambing dates seem to be hereditary. Another thing we like about Bliz's line was the tendency to have lambs with really cool markings. I'll have to look at this baby again tomorrow to identify her color more accurately, but she seems to be brown with white and black markings. I don't think she's a badgerface because I don't think she has the black belly, but it was too soon to get a really good look yet.

Here's Cornflower:

That whole picture actually came out pretty good, except I wish the lamb had gone with Cornflower when she ran up on the hill and assumed a defensive posture upon seeing me come after them with my camera. Click here to see the whole picture.

I have to leave now for work, so I'll post more later, about Christmas, and the sheep we sold a few days ago, and Suzie's bad hair day this morning (she really does not like Tiger today).

Hope you all have a great Christmas!