This is just highlights on some of my favorites, and nowhere near a complete list.  Fred the Travel Lamb and Simon the Llama both have their own pages, and New Lambs are posted on their own page, so be sure to check them out, too. 

Dodge

Dodge has a curly set of horns that makes him look like the Dodge Ram truck emblem.  He's my ram and is the father of many of the lambs born on my farm.  

Dodge is a merino - the very softest wool you can get.  His wool is a creamy off-white, although in the photo he looks quite dirty.  Merinos are known for an excessive amount of lanolin (an oil similar to the oil you get when you don't wash your hair).  The lanolin makes him a dirt-magnet, but also works like a conditioner adding softness to his wool.

Dodge is old, but that's not why he's so wrinkly.  Merinos are an old breed and have been bred for their winkles for centuries.  More wrinkles mean more skin, which means more surface area to grow wool.  More wrinkles also mean more difficulty at shearing time, especially after electric shears became accepted in the 1890s and at the turn of the century.  Because they're so much harder to shear, you'll find very few merinos in the U.S. today.  Most are on historic farms or at living history museums. 

Dodge was born February 26, 1996.  He left my farm in the spring of 2006 to retire in Winslow with a whole new flock of lady friends. 

Left Ear

When I got Left Ear I had a few sheep with spots on their right ears but she was the only one with a spot on her left ear.  She's been a real good mother and is passing on her left ear trait, so she's no longer the only one with spots on her left ear!  Left Ear is the mother of Spots (December 2002), twins Deuce and Marilyn (March 2004), and will lamb again this spring. 

Left Ear is a cormo with soft, white and very dense wool. 

Goat

I think all newborn lambs look like goats with their long, spindly legs and short, slick wool.  But this one has white "beard," making her look even more goat-like.  Since her mother is named Bear, it seemed logical to name her after another animal, too.  So "Goat" it is.

Goat is a cormo cross, the daughter of Bear, and was born on March 20, 2004.  Her wool is dark brown, with a bit of white under her chin and at the top of her head.  She'll lamb for the first time this spring (2005).

Lambert

Lambert and his cousin Ewella were the first two sheep on my farm.  Lambert was a bottle baby, and even as an adult he is friendlier than most sheep. 

Lambert is a weather who lives with the girls for six months and with Dodge for the other six months.  He is big, like a ram, but as gentle as a ewe - a great combination.  Lambert is a cormo and his wool is white, very soft and very dense - lots of individual hairs per square inch.  He was born in April of 2000.

Ewella

Ewella and her cousin Lambert were my first two sheep. 

Ewella is very friendly, and her lambs tend to be unusually friendly as well.  She's a great mother and often twins, but so far hasn't had any daughters. 

Ewella is a cormo with white, very soft wool.  She was born in April of 2000 and will lamb again this spring. 

Harriett

Harriett was part of my "first family."  I bought Harriett, her twin sister Flower and their mother Angel as a set while the two little ones were still nursing. 

Harriett and her family are cheviots.  While most cheviots are white, Harriett and her farm-mates were bred specifically for their color by Nanette Mosher.  Her wool tips are sun bleached to a  faded brown in this picture, but underneath she's a rich, dark gray.  You can see the dark gray under her neck, which doesn't get as much sun as her back.   

While most of my flock have ears that go sideways, the cheviots have ears that go up, like a dog. 

Harriett's a tough old broad.  She's small, just knee-high to some of the bigger ewes.  But she doesn't take any crap from anyone and pushes the bigger ewes around like she owns the place. 

Harriett is the mother of Fritzi Girl and Little Fritz, and the grandmother of Fred.  So far all of her lambs have been colored, and she'll lamb again this spring.  Harriett was born April 2, 2000.

Bear

I think Bear looks like a bear.  She is tri-colored dark brown, black and gray, with a wooly face and dense wool.  To top it off, she has yellow teddy-bear eyes. 

I don't know of any other sheep with yellow eyes, but then she's an unusual sheep.  Bear is probably a mix of cormo and East Friesian, although she doesn't really look like either.  She has extremely short legs under a stocky body. 

And she's an Independent Woman.  Most sheep have strong flocking instincts and panic if left alone, but Bear is happy to graze solo.  At her birth farm they once lost her, then found her three days later in a hay field happily living on her own.

Bear is an excellent mother and so far has always had colored lambs.  Bear is the mother of Goat and is scheduled to lamb again this spring. 

Wooly Ben

Wooly Ben was named by my cousin, Ben, who was so impressed with my flock that he was given the honor of naming the first ewe lamb of the year. 

Wooly Ben is the daughter of Toni Dorset, and her father is probably my neighbor's East Friesian ram (opps!), making her a dorset - East Friesian cross. 

She was born on February 10, 2004.