A friend from a smallholding near to us here finally sold her property for a BIG move. She had to down size her animal collection. Most of her sheep went to market but a few, her pets, remained. She made the incredibly hard decision that she couldn’t take them with her. So we said that we would take them on! Initially three, but as Coal still had a lamb at foot we ended up with four!
Hairy legs
Coal, who was originally blackie but we thought she looked more like she had rolled in coal dust! Indie (if you ask the eldest she is actually called Indoraptor) and Lamb Chops a big chunky wether.
A wether is a boy sheep who has been neutered.
They arrived one cold evening in December 2020 while my friend was deep in the final throes of moving!
And they joined the flock with gusto! I think it helped that the three witches were some of the lambs from the flock from the previous year, and I think we reunited at least one mother and daughter!
They have upped our numbers of callable sheep, at first it was just Hairy Legs, but now Coal and Lamb Chops are readily available as long as a bucket is rattled!
Indie follows Coal every where so that makes her easier to catch too!!
All four of these are Llanwenog, which is fast proving my favourite yarn to work with!!
If you are interested in knitting with some of the yarn spun up from their beautiful fleeces then head over to our Etsy shop!
Tyddyn Bryn 