Roblin
Babydoll Southdowns &
Alpacas
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NEWS
10 September 2008 Our lambing season for the Babydolls has finished. It went quite well and we only have two poddy lambs from the lambing this year. They are doing well and will join our breeding program in the future. The Babydolls have become quite popular and we currently have sold all the Babydolls that we are going to sell this season. We had a lot of enquiries and had to have a waiting list of all potential buyers. We are trying to increase our numbers of breeding stock each year and hope to have an even better lambing season next year. It's lovely to watch all the lambs at play in the late afternoons and see the mums trying to keep their children under control. Which is almost an impossible task with an over active and curious little lamb.
16 August 2008 Rob has taken some photos of some of the Babydolls lambs. They seem to grow so fast and develop such a curious little nature.
Below is a photo Rob took recently of the Babydoll Southdown Merino cross lambs.
2 August 2008 Today is the day. The Babydoll ewes have started lambing. The first lamb to arrive is a single ram lamb. He has lovely dark colour on his legs and face. The second ewe to lamb had twins. Her first is a lighter colour ram lamb and her second is a darker coloured ewe lamb. These are not identical twins. All are doing well and the ewes are being great mums. I have posted some photos below. I alway feel that photos don't do the sheep justice, but the photos will give you and idea of what the lambs look like. We have a lot more ewes to lamb and I wouldn't be surprised if we end up with a ewe lambing every day this month now, until they have all finished for this season.
First Ewe and her Ram Lamb Second Ewe's Ewe Lamb (Twin)
Second Ewe and her Ram Lamb (First of the twins)
28 July 2008 I was greeted today with a lovely little ewe lamb. She is a cross and not a purebred lamb. Her breed is Babydoll Southdown/Poll Dorset/Merino/Border Leicester. A mouth full I know, but she has a great mum and certainly has Babydoll traits. It hasn't been decided yet, but quite possible that I will keep her for our breeding program in the future and breed future lambs to a purebred Babydoll Southdown. All going well it will take 4 -5 generations, but it will be worth it. Her fate as a breeder or pet will be determined later when she is older. I haven't any good pictures yet, but will post some in the next few days.
6 July 2008 The lovely little twins below are now available for purchase. You can find the details on our Sales and Leases page. They will not be able to go to their new home until they are 3 months old, but a deposit can be paid. They are such active little guys and I can spend ages on our back veranda watching their antics of chasing each other and bouncing around at dusk. Below is a picture of how they have grown. We still have some Babydoll Southdown ewes to lamb and expect to soon have a lot of new lambs bouncing around and pictures of them will be posted on this page when they start to arrive.
14 June 2008 Twin ram lambs were born today. They are not pure Babydoll Southdowns, as we have a few of our crossbred ewes and a merino ewe in lamb to our Babydoll ram. The mother of the twins is our black Merino ewe and we were hoping for a black lamb, but they turned out more of the original Babydoll colour. Still very stunning little lambs. The Twins certainly have more of the traits of Babydolls as in, their wrinkly skin, woolly faces and little "old man" looks", plus small size. Mum and the lambs are doing well. I have posted a few pictures on this page when they were newly born, but will up date the photos in the next couple of days.
Lamb 1 and Lamb 2 (Merino/Babydoll Cross)
Merino Ewe & Babydoll Cross Lamb Babydoll Ewe greeting new Lamb
Linda & Rob Power 190 Turner's Lane Cootamundra NSW 2590 Phone: 02 6942 2707
Email: lpower@shoal.net.au
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