Meet Brownie

Brownie is the largest of the sheep. It took a little longer for her to eat grain out of my hand, but she eventually came around. She is an excellent mother and her two ewe lambs are also quite large. We are planning on breeding her and her girls this fall. Hopefully her girls will be good mothers as well.

Brownie seems to be less tolerant of the goats. She was fine with the baby goats at first. She let them jump on her and mostly just ignored them. Once she had her lambs, however, she did not want the goat kids anywhere near her or her lambs. When Tootsie (our female goat kid) went over to try and check out the new lambs, Brownie was quick to head butt her away. Tootsie is a little too brave for her own good so we separated them at that point. I'm sure if we had left them together things would have quieted down but we didn't want to upset the new moms so we decided to keep them separate after that. Also, after the females managed to push their way into the ram pen, it was just safer all around to keep a pen in between the rams and the ewes. (I'm fairly sure that Brownie led the break in, given her size.)

I'm curious to see what Brownie's lambs will look like next year now that there is only one all white ram.