Wintertime Liz--SOLD

Liz is one of the few Wintertime Landslide(smooth polled)daughters in the country. Her dam twinned this year with a gorgeous black ewe lamb, Itasca, who is remaining down in WI, and Liz(modified moorit)who came north. They are half-sisters to Blues and Jazz who both tested in the low/low 20's as lambs and Ruby who tested 21 as a two year old. This line is exemplary for fiber and nice type. Meghan is looking forward to crossing Liz with one of her Forrest/Ruby sons this fall.

Wintertime Aretha and Winter Sky Ani

Aretha is sired by Wintertime Blues(87.5% UK lines)who now resides at Sheltering Pines. Her dam is Winter Sky Alafair who is also slated to go to Sheltering Pines. She has Allie's personality and is always just behind you when you are coming and going waiting for some affection.

Ani is equally gregarious and is sired by Winter Sky Leonid(F1 Orion)and out of Winter Sky Anya who is a very lovely Sandstone daughter. Her fleece is already exquisite, so we anticipate good things from her in the future.

WINTER SKY CAPTAIN

Meghan and I partner with a wonderful shepherdess in SW Wisconsin at Firth of Fifth Acres(www.finer-fleeces.com). We have about a dozen ewes down there that lamb out as well as Meghan's ultra-fine black gulmoget ram Forrest. It is always exciting to go down there to sort through the newest additions at weaning time and select a few to come north for breeding season. This year was the ultimate fiber experience, as we used Forrest along with a couple very fine F1 ram lambs.

Captain was one of the last to be evaluated and I couldn't believe just how soft and crimpy/locky he is. I wish everyone could put their hands on him. He is so soft I actually picked him up and rubbed my face all over his body. Because I kept thinking "chenille", I decided he had to named Captain. He already has a breeding pen reserved in his name for this fall.

BROTHERS

Sons of Wintertime Black Forrest and Wintertime Ruby--my daughter's favorite ram and ewe which both tested in the 21 range as two year olds mid-side. Two very different but very interesting ram prospects.

THANK YOU COINTREAU!!

SK8TER BOI & KODACHROME

Several years ago I had the enormous pleasure of seeing the first yuglet katmoget in North America born on my farm--Skater Boy. One of his daughters was retained and her daughter produced a grey version this spring. In honor of his illustrious great-grandsire he has been christened Sk8ter Boi.

The very same year Skater Boy was born we had a moorit smirslet ram lamb born named Chrome. His granddaughter in our flock bred to an Orion F1 produced a very nice ram lamb with similar coloring this spring, so he was christened Kodachrome. Both these promising ram lambs will be used in our breeding program this fall.a>

LAMBING STATS FOR 2008

Winter Sky Tennyson(NCWGA): Bred to two ewes produced three lambs--Black polled ram and moorit blettet ewe twins and single black horned ram.

Wintertime Thriller(NASSA) bred to one ewe produced black krunet ewe lamb & black polled ram(third generation.

Winter Sky Cowboy(NCWGA)bred to four ewes produced:Fawn smirslet katmoget ram, grey HST kat ewe, moorit yuglet mirkface sokket ram, and grey kat HST ram. Total 3 rams/1 ewe all spotted)

Winter Sky Leonid(NCWGA)bred to four ewes produced: moorit and moorit HST twin ewes, blettet musket ewe and moorit ram with moonspot, twin moorit ewes, and smirslet moorit ram and moorit krunet ewe. (2 rams/5 ewes--four spotted)

Winter Sky Cointreau(NCWGA)bred to six ewes produced: HST moorit gulmoget horned ram, dark brown ewe, HST moorit gulmoget ewe, black gulmoget horned ram, moorit krunet ewe and moorit gulmoget ewe. Total 2 rams/4 ewes(four gulmoget)

Wintertime Blues(NASSA)bred to one ewe produced: grey kat ewe and black horned ram. He was also bred to at least four other ewes and produced dark brown offspring in addition to blacks and grey kats.

Wintertime Black Forrest(NASSA)bred to nine ewes produced: black gulmoget twin ewe and ram, modified moorit scurred gulmoget ram & horned smirslet moorit ram, moorit ram, moorit twin ram and ewe, black gulmoget ram and black ewe, black gulmoget twin ewes, moorit gulmoget ram, grey gul/kat ram & ewe and black gulmoget ewe triplets, flecket ewe and black ewe. Total of 8 rams/9 ewes(8 gulmogets--2 gulmoget/katmogets)

Wintertime Landslide(polled NASSA)bred to two ewes produced: black & mioget krunet twin ewes, moorit bielset ewe.

Firthoffifth Aman(NASSA)bred to three ewes produced: twin moorit rams, single black ewe, moorit ewe and mioget horned ram.