Mini Moose is a sheep as nice as he looks. And he's about as un-Mini as he can get, but he's also a lot of floof. You can stick your hand down into his wool and there's not much hand left sticking out. That floof is one of my all time favorite fleeces.
I have a wool post in the works that I just haven't had time to put together, but I'll tease you with a couple of pictures of Mini Moose's wool. There's a whole lot more to the story though, so don't let me forget to come back to it.
I know you'll want to hear more about this.
That little hint of gray mixed in.
Mini Moose is one of the sweetest sheep we've had and I'm sure that's partly due to who his dad is, one of the Nistock rams. He's a Rocky grandson. He came over here from Final Frontier Farm with Cheeto and Big Moose back in 2019.
Mini Moose got his name just after he was born. We didn't get many gray lambs and after Big Moose arrived and he was So Big that I immediately called him Big Moose, the next gray lamb born was much smaller...hence Mini Moose. Both boys were lambing shed favorites and I couldn't resist bringing them over here after they were weaned.
Jacobs aren't large sheep, but standing next to Tessa really illustrates how un-Mini he ended up. I would guess him at almost 300 pounds. He definitely was when he was a year or two younger. His fleece weighs in around 10 pounds each year. I think you could pretty easily knit three sweaters from him every year and I have one in my queue.
Mini Moose's favorite treat is handfuls of the "good alfalfa" :-).
6 comments:
He is impressive. Glad to hear that he is sweet as well.
His wool is so floofy. Beautiful. He is awesome in a quiet way.
There is something about the dark faced sheeps:)
I am loving reading your posts about these individual sheep. I love reading how much you love them and how they have enriched your life.
Such a lovely shape and oh my goodness the floof!
He is so pretty!!! And his fleece is WOW
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