Finally... quiet sheep!

Our sheep population double instantly when the Dorper girls arrived. At that time we had Lamby, Mama, and jumping ram (who was tied up).

The 3 girls are various ages.. the oldest, named Suzy Haezelwood, is the mother to the next one down named Lyn Mason. The youngest of the 3 is named Susan Boyle. After we had the girls, we went and picked up the ram, John Campbell. I think he is about 5 months or so now.

As you can see from the picture, these are the sheep we dreamed of! They are friendly and quiet, we can move them using a food bucket, they will eat bread out of our hands, and come over for a pat. You can also see that John Campbell and Lamby are best friends (they are the 2 closest to the camera).

Suzy and Lyn especially don't have the "right" markings, although there don't seem to be many out there that do. Susan Boyle almost does, and John Campbell does, so hopefully as time goes on we will get some lambs that are "right". Though, to be honest, we aren't really worried. There aren't many people around who care about sheep markings, and if they do, we probably don't want to deal with them!

The Dorper's also shed their wool, as Suzy is doing at the moment. They do seem to have problems with their feet, but we would much rather maintain them than have mental Arapawa's around!