What I will say is that these sales sheep will rank highly against any that you will find elsewhere, and in most cases, there are no meaningful flaws with them, but we have enough of their genetics to fulfill our long term goals. We are not in a position to keep everything that we like, or we likely wouldn't even have a sales list. All of these sheep have been in our breeding program, and still would be if that was an option.
It's important to me that new buyers do so knowing these are sheep that I would buy myself. More importantly, they are better than any we have ever purchased, and are the result of a long process of breeding to our goals. Our goal has been (and continues to be) breeding Shetlands that are equivalent to the best flocks in the UK. I think that is a worthy goal and one that we are excited to help new shepherds with. I only wish we could've started out with sheep of this quality. We made so many mistakes early on and feel fortunate to have learned and somehow made it to this point in our breeding program.
ADULT EWES
(One year or older)
Whispering
Pines Catherine
Sire/Dam: Whispering Pines Canterbury/Sheltering Pines
Constantinople
Age: 1
Micron: AFD: 23.6/SD: 4.5/CV:19.2/CEM: 8.2/SF: 22.6
Color/Pattern: Fawn Katmoget
Fleece Grade: Superfine Premium
This ewe has everything I am looking for in our breeding
program except extreme fineness. Her genetic potential is huge in terms of what
she can bring to a fine fleece breeding program! Exceptional bloodline! Arguably, the best conformation of all the yearlings!
Whispering
Pines Charlotte
Sire/Dam: Whispering Pines Canterbury/Whispering Pines
Vittoria
Age: 1
Micron: AFD: 22.9/SD: 4.3/CV:19.0/CEM: 7.7/SF: 21.9
Color/Pattern: Fawn Katmoget
Fleece Grade: Superfine Premium
Another outstanding yearling ewe!
Whispering
Pines Emma
Sire/Dam: Whispering Pines Canterbury/Whispering Pines
Cordovan
Age: 1
Micron: AFD: 24.4/SD: 4.5/CV:18.3/CEM: 8.2/SF: 23.3
Color/Pattern: Yuglet Fawn
Fleece Grade: Superfine Premium
Great bloodlines here as well. Her grandfather was Khan and
her grandmother Siena. Has fantastic potential in a spotted Shetland breeding
program (which isn’t something we specialize in). Fantastic density.
Whispering
Pines Lydia
Sire/Dam: Whispering Pines Canterbury/Whispering Pines
Kahlua
Age: 1
Micron: AFD: 25.0/SD: 4.3/CV:17.3/CEM: 6.7/SF: 23.7
Color/Pattern: Yuglet Sokket Fawn Katmoget
Fleece Grade: Superfine Premium
Whispering
Pines Mustang Sally
Sire/Dam: Winter Sky Khan/Whispering Pines Siena
Age: 2
Micron: AFD: 25/SD: 4.3/CV:17.4/CEM: 7.6/SF: 23.6
Color/Pattern: Moorit
Fleece Grade: Superfine Premium
One of our last two moorit Khan daughters. This one is finer
than Caramel Mocha, but both have outstanding fleeces.
Whispering
Pines 99
Sire/Dam: Whispering Pines Egyptian Autumn/Whispering Pines
Irish Rose
Age: 2
Micron: AFD: 27/SD: 5.1/CV:18.9/CEM: 9.1/SF: 25.8
Color/Pattern: Smirslet Fawn Sokket Katmoget
Fleece Grade: Fine Premium
An excellent spotted ewe that goes back to Wintertime Bond. There aren’t many spotted ewes in that bloodline. See our ewe a day posts from the fall for a full description.
Whispering
Pines Sarah (AKA, Picasso Face)
Sire/Dam: Whispering Pines Stonehenge/Whispering Pines Kiyah
Age: 2
Micron: AFD: 23.8/SD: 4.2/CV:17.8/CEM: 7.2/SF: 22.6
Color/Pattern: Smirslet Fawn Sokket Katmoget
Fleece Grade: Superfine Premium
This spotted ewe goes back to Bond and Khan both. Both
parents were Superfine, which I believe is very important in a fine fleece
Shetland breeding program, and certainly something I look for. Rare numbers for a two year old spotted Shetland!
Winter Sky
Vogue
Sire/Dam: Winter Sky Tennyson/Winter Sky Foxtrot
Age: 6
Micron: AFD: 27.6/SD: 5/CV:18.2/CEM: 8.7/SF: 26.3
Color/Pattern: Moorit
Fleece Grade: Fine Premium
F3 Orion. Nice crimp. Not quite Superfine, but close. One of
very few Tennyson daughters. Big time producer of top notch lambs!
Whispering
Pines Kahlua
Sire/Dam: Wintertime Grasshopper/Winter Sky Vogue
Age: 4
Micron: AFD: 24.0/SD: 3.9/CV:16.4/CEM: 6.8 /SF: 22.5
Color/Pattern: Moorit
Fleece Grade: Superfine Premium
Probably the nicest handling moorit fleece I have seen and touched. She has always thrown Superfine lambs! Very similar to her mother in overall build and type. Shorter fleece type, which pairs exceptionally well with rams with 3”-5” fleeces. She may be sold, but it pays to ask.
Whispering
Pines Florence
Sire/Dam: Sheltering Pines Pompey Magnus/Whispering Pines
Blue Sapphire
Age: 3
Micron: AFD: 24.8/SD: 4.4/CV:17.8/CEM: 7.7/SF: 23.5
Color/Pattern: Fawn Katmoget
Fleece Grade: Superfine Premium
Fantastic fawn katmoget with excellent Superfine genetics.
Is a top producer of Superfine lambs! I hate to part with ewes that produce rare lambs like she does so consistently. Flo is the one on the left next to her daughter from last year, who has the finest Shetland fleece we've seen. The genetics are there.
Whispering
Pines Venice
Sire/Dam: Sheltering Pines Pompey Magnus/Sommarang Isla
Age: 3
Micron: AFD: 25.8/SD: 4.5/CV:17.4/CEM: 7.8/SF: 24.4
Color/Pattern: Fawn Katmoget
Fleece Grade: Fine Premium
Her fleece falls just short of the FFSSA Superfine grade,
but I have her fleece graded as Superfine in our farm grading system. Her
fleece is indistinguishable from the other Superfine fawn katmoget ewes on this
list. Another top producer. The friendliest ewe on the list this year. Was a
bottle lamb. Another fantastic lamb producer.
Whispering
Pines Turin
Sire/Dam: Sheltering Pines Pompey Magnus/Winter Sky Vogue
Age: 3
Micron: AFD: 24.9/SD: 4.9/CV:19.5/CEM: 8.4/SF: 24.0
Color/Pattern: Fawn Katmoget
Fleece Grade: Superfine Premium
An excellent Vogue daughter out of Superfine ram Pompey
Magnus. Produces exceptional lambs!
Whispering
Pines Caramel Mocha
Sire/Dam: Winter Sky Khan/Whispering Pines Genoa
Age: 3
Micron: AFD: 26.8/SD: 5.0/CV:18.8/CEM: 8.1/SF: 25.7
Color/Pattern: Moorit
Fleece Grade: Fine Premium
Excellent moorit ewe and a Khan daughter to boot! In fact,
she is one of two that we still have left in our flock. Her fleece is
excellent, but not quite Superfine. Nice density and crimp.
EWE LAMBS
(born in 2016)
Blue
Sapphire’s fawn katmoget lambs
Sire/Dam: Whispering Pines Rosewood/Whispering Pines Blue
Sapphire
Age: Lambs
Micron: NA
Color/Pattern: Fawn Katmogets
These two lambs are out of Rosewood and carry wild spotting.
I like them as well as most of the lambs from this year, but they don’t satisfy
any particular need that we have in terms of color. These are certainly lambs
we would’ve kept last year and are only for sale because of the large number of ewe
lambs that we had this year. Readers of this blog know that there are two types of sheep that I hate selling: producers and promising lambs. I will offer special pricing if they can go together.
Sherrie’s
Ewe Lambs
Sire/Dam: Whispering Pines Canterbury/Whispering Pines
Sherrie
Age: Lambs
Micron: NA
Color/Pattern: Fawn Katmogets
Two excellent ewe lambs out of Canterbury. Sherrie’s mother
is Blue Sapphire. Excellent genetics here. As always, I will price them better if they go together. That always makes me feel good, and you can't put a price on that.
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