Montana '05 after shedding his winter coat. Montana has an unusual brown coloration, but is a mouflon pattern NA Soay yearling ram. He has wonderfully wide-spreading horns, and his light phase gene (I think) gives him light brown horn color (as well as hooves and skin). Montana sired several lambs this year with our lighter colored ewes. Compare his June coat and horn appearance with his winter coat and horns (second photo in Gallery #3)..

June, 2006 

Diablo '05 - a self-colored black NA Soay ram. He is quite hairy (rather than wooly) so stays very black all winter. He is developing widely spreading, very heavy horns. He is also quite tall compared to our other yearling rams.

May, 2006 

Thor '05 - another self-colored black NA Soay ram. He is developing absolutely wonderful horns. Wide-spreading, good length, and large basal diameter. Thor has great conformation - he is quite a stocky fellow and like his dam (Thumper) and twin sister (Kaya '05) he has quite a heavy wooly coat that extends past his hairs everywhere but his face and legs. Here he has lost most of his winter coat (except for back end). Even his newly exposed coat is wooly and thus sun-fades within a couple weeks.

May, 2006 

Ewe and lamb flock. I enjoy having a mixture of colors in the flock. We have a high proportion of self-colored blacks in our current flock.

May, 2006 

Blue Mountain Juniper '04. Juniper is a half-RBST, half NA Soay ram. Here he is standing in front of our very large male black cottonwood tree. (Kvasir peeking out from behind the tree.). Juniper is a medium-sized Soay and has very nice proportions and horns. All around a nice ram. He sired some of our lambs this year.

May, 2006 

Three of Woodland Creek's 2006 ram lambs. Pepper, Obsidian, and Nevada (l to r). Obsidian has the most widely spreading ram lamb horns I've seen. Not sure where they are headed! Pepper has almost straight, very hefty horns that are pointing out at a good angle. The horn prospects look good at this point.

May, 2006 

Five yearling NA Soay rams show off their colors and horns. (Left to right) Diablo, Montana, Dagger, Basalt, and Thunder. 

May, 2006 

Bonita '04 and her twin 2006 ewe lambs Olivia and Pearl.  All three are self-colored blacks. Despite Bonita's fine horns, it appears that while Olivia is also horned, Pearl seems to be polled (or at least button-scurred - time will tell).

(Bonita just visited the loose salt mix - that's what's on her nose...)

May, 2006 

The ewe and lamb flock on the back hill, overlooking Woodland Creek in February 2006. 

Frosty '05 and her 2006 ram lamb Teton. Teton's white markings are a very close replica of his mother's markings as a lamb. Frosty's white gets dirty and mixed with her brown hair and doesn't show as much as an adult. 

March, 2006 

Leapin' Lambs! The black lambs were having a great time leaping off the compost pile 'mountain'. The flash reflecting in their eyes makes them look possessed, but  they were fun to watch!

March, 2006 

Carmen '06 a self-colored black ewe lamb stretches after getting up from (yet another!) nap. Carmen is a long, leggy Soay and looks like she will have fine form.

March, 2006 

Thor '05, a black NA Soay ram, takes a flying leap across Woodland Creek. He is probably about 8 feet above the water and covered about 12 feet in this leap. Pretty amazing. 

March, 2006 

Bunny '02 and her  2006 ram lamb Obsidian. Bunny is the daughter of Thumper '00. 

March, 2006