River Oaks Farm & Studio
Shetland & Bluefaced Leicester Sheep, Fleece and Heritage Crafts
All text and images on these pages are copyright Becky Utecht, Mora, MN USA.
We currently own no adult Shetland rams. But we do have several young replacements in the lambing pens.
In fall 2007, we used three rams for breeding, two Shetlands and a Bluefaced Leicester ram. Our criteria for rams includes excellent conformation, temperament, and as always, fabulous fleece.
For Shetland rams, we used our own Windswept Boggart and leased Kimberwood Harrison, a polled black gulmoget ram lamb from Kim Nikolai. For the BFLs we used Beechtree Granite on our BFL ewes, Shetland Mule ewes, and four unregistered Shetland ewes. Beechtree Dougal managed to sire a set of twins for us after his return from Kimberwood Shetlands.
Beechtree Granite
Bluefaced Leicester, twin ram lamb
Born 4-9-07
Pedigree BLU Ram #2413
Granite gave us many colored lambs in 2008. And some interesting markings.
Beechtree Dougal
Bluefaced Leicester, triplet ram lamb
Born 3-19-06
Pedigree BLU Ram #2000
Scrapie genetics - QR AA
Dougal is our gentle giant He sired three beautiful white Shetland mule lambs in spring of 2007. In 2007 he bred 17 ewes at Kimberwood Shetlands, siring a good percentage of ewe lambs and colored lambs. Then he came home and bred Bramble Emma producing a natural colored ram and a white ewe lamb.
