Marmalade
Marmalade was one of triplet girls born to Minnie on the 16th of March 2014. These were Minnie’s last lambs before she retired. Marmalade’s sisters were called Jam and Honey. I wanted to keep the 3 of them here with Minnie but unfortunately, I was not in a position financially to keep so many sheep back them. So Jam and Honey went to new homes. Jam now lives on a smallholding with a friend locally and Honey went to a pet home with some other lambs. Marmalade stayed here with her mum Minnie. Marmalade has never had lambs of her own. In the winter of 2019/2020, she spent some time with one of our rams – Smartie but no lambs resulted from that meeting. Whether she has lambs or not doesn’t really matter to me. Though it would be nice to have a mini Marmalade to carry on her beautiful genes within the flock one day. Marmalade is a 3rd generation crossbreed. Her family tree comprises mostly Jacob x Shetland sheep but her dad was also 1/2 Soay sheep making Marmalade a real mix. She has always been a very friendly sheep and has learned some bad habits like pestering and jumping up for food. Marmalade has a very nice spinning fleece. I have sold her fleece to hand spinners and crafters in the past but never actually worked with her fleece myself. However, I still have most of her 2019 fleece and her 2020 fleece so I plan to make something with those at some point. Watch this space.
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Ewe
Breed – 3rd Generation crossbreed 1/2 Jacob 1/4 Soay 1/4 Shetland
Parents – Custard & Minnie
Colour genetics – Brown base / White Spotted
Date of birth – 16/03/2014
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