Charlotte is a fawn katmoget out of Canterbury and Vittoria, who
is another one of our Pompey daughters. Nothing jumps out at us in terms of
fleece quality, but I think that’s a good thing. If all of your lambs are
improvements on the parents, that doesn’t say much about the parents as far as
I am concerned. I think it should be tough to improve on the parents. I do like
Charlotte better than Vittoria by a smidgeon, but her fleece is not going to be
finer. But, the bar is set pretty high on that and her fleece stats are very
good: 22.4/5.9/26.6/9.1/22.9.
The problem that we always run into is that if we elect to keep 10
ewe lambs every year, we have to sell 10 adults to make room. Which means that
you are looking for that little flaw that one has and another doesn’t. Her
fleece doesn’t have visible flaws, but the numbers probably won’t compare
favorably to some of the other sheep in our flock. But that’s not something I
am concerned about at this point.
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