Brenta

Brenta is a HUGE Dorper ewe of ours. She has nice conformation and is VERY big, nice and muscular. We got her from the Warren Livestock Auction in Leach, OK back in 2011. I do not know who her owners are, so I cannot say exactly how old she is and I can not say that she is a purebred Dorper.


You can go here to see her 2012 lambing ~ http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2012/02/brenta-lambed-february-15th-2012.html

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Brenta lambed ~ February 15th, 2012!!

Brenta lambed Wednesday to twins. She had them just fine with no issues. She had 1 ewe lamb and 1 ram lamb. We do not know who the sire to the lambs is, because we got Brenta when she was bred. From looking at the lambs it looks like the sire was a Painted Desert or Barbados or something along those lines.

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Snickers Lambed ~ February 8th, 2012!!

Well, on Wednesday, February 8th, 2012, Snickers, one of our Dorper ewes lambed to triplets . . . 1 ram lamb and 2 ewe lambs.

I was awakened by my mom around 4:30am, because Snickers had two dead lamb heads hanging out. My brother tried to get them out but was unable to do so. We woke my sister up, and she had to push the lamb on top all the way back in and then pull the lamb on the bottom out . . . sad to say that lamb was dead:( After that my sister pulled the other "dead" lamb out . . . but then the "dead" lamb was alive!! Praise God for us being able to get it out before it died like its other sibling did. After we got the second lamb out the third lamb's head popped out, so we pulled it out . . . she was not really stuck. The dead lamb was the ram lamb and the two alive lambs are the girls.

After all that, we tried to get Snickers to stand up, but she was unable to stand. Either she had permanent nerve damage or just needed time to heal up. It can take up 3 weeks for her to get better we have read or she could have permanent damage . . . hopefully she will get better.

Because of that we are bottling one of her lambs. The other lamb was able to figure out how to nurse while she is laying down.

The sire to the lambs is a Katahdin ram, Rocky and the dam is a Dorper ewe, Snickers.

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Snickers

Snickers is a very big, black and white Dorper ewe of ours. She does not have the perfect Dorper markings, but that is just fine with me. She does not have the best conformation or build, but she still has a very nice, big and muscular built body. I believe she is about 5 to 6 years old. She was bred to Rocky, a Katahdin ram and had triplets back in January of 2011 . . . 1 girl and 2 boys. They were/are very nice and big sheep . . . she throws beautiful offspring. She was bred again to Rocky, the Katahdin ram and is due sometime soon.


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The first 3 pictures are of her back in 2009 or 2010 I believe.

The rest of the pictures below are of her near the end of 2011.