Mini Spotted Sheep

Small sheep with smiling faces who love eating treats and meeting Dairy guests. Our miniature sheep have beautiful, soft wool (great for petting, or spinning when they get too hot).

Sheep have no upper front teeth, and nibble gently when hand fed. Very sweet natured, they do not typically butt or ram their heads into people.

Unlike larger sheep and goats, these mini sheep are easy to house behind short fences and light gates. They don't typically ram fences or challenge gates.

Our night housing serves the purpose of protecting the sheep from predators. Sheep require a night barn, or sheltered night pen with high, sturdy fences to protect against predators such as coyotes, bobcats and mountain lions.

Sheep concentrate on grazing, keeping four feet on the ground. Goats are typically browsers, not grazers. They tend to stand on their hind legs and reach up to bushes and trees.

The sheep keep the grass as low as possible. The entire East side of our Dairy is rich with large pastures for our little grazers. In the Fall, when grasslands dry, Eastern Santa Ana winds blow, and fires spark easily. We always ensure that our farm is well protected from wildfires, so our little ones stay safe.

This lamb is a harlequin.  Both his sire and dam are highly colored.  Spotted babydolls are currently more rare.  Spotted harlequins are more common.  

Black lambs rarely stay jet black as the sun will fade their color.  But when sheered will be jet black underneath.

Black Spotted is when a lamb is black with scattered "celestial" looking white markings (looking sort of like a galaxy.)  

According to the registry, This color is simply registered as Black/White Flocking

The spotted genetics will often show up on a black lamb as a white mark on the face.   This happens often with a white ewe bred to a spotted ram. This white spot will often show on a black lamb indicating it carries the spot gene.

White is white.  No markings.  Sometimes a white lamb will be born with a pale spot here or there.  That will fade and is not considered spotted.

This gray ewe started out jet black with no white hairs at all.  She turned to this lovely gray over three years.  Many of the black lambs will turn to this.  When this ewe is sheered, she is gray... not black at the roots.