Her fur is actually quite short and mangy looking in that pic since she just started growing back from a molt AND she just plucked her belly nekkid from a litter, but it's the only half decent pic I have of her since she lost her JR coat. I really need to update pics!
Trying to get that length through my herd, I have another momma (little Hazel bun) who is a tad longer, but much coarser and no where near as dense. Kept a kit back from her litter to see how the density turned out since she was bred with Ruby's half brother Sage, who has the awesome density Ruby does, but not the length.
Kit is a little more narrow l in the shoulders on conformation than i'd like, but the wool looks great so far! It's only the baby coat though, won't know anything till JR coat really, and then the SR coat seems to coarsen up a bit.
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AAAAND..... We're still waiting...
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WE HAVE HAYSTACHERY!<br /><br />__________ Sun Dec 08, 2013 3:10 pm __________<br /><br />Popples are here! Or at least one of the two litters, momma Indigo had eight and only one was in the front if the nest and had froze to death. Not bad for a first timer!
There is one little kit that I'm worried about. It's only 1/2 the size of the other kits. Fully developed though, but I'm a bit worried it will either be too small to make it through the night or that it'll get smushed by its siblings at some point. I'll just have to wait and see, but keeping my fingers crossed it pulls through!