Firefly Fields

Mara is a small black ewe and the daughter of Lumi and Teddy. She was born in March 2004. Teddy was Sandy De Master's brown ram at Wee Croft Finnsheep. Although I purchased Lumi in July 2003, she did not come to live at Firefly Fields until November. Instead, Lumi stayed at Wee Croft and was bred to Sandy's ram Teddy. Teddy is a rare brown Finnsheep. He is the grandson of two brown Finn rams who live in Finland. Both his parents were conceived using artificial insemination.

Baby Mara

Brown is the most recessive color in Finnsheep. In order to be brown, a Finnsheep must have two copies of the brown gene. Therefore, both parents must carry at least one copy of the brown gene in order to produce a brown lamb.

Lumi does not carry a brown gene, so she could not have brown lambs. However, because her father is brown, Mara carries one copy of the brown gene. This means that when bred to a brown ram or a ram who is recessive for brown, Mara can produce brown lambs.

In April 2006, Mara produced her first lambs when bred to Usko. She had triplets, two black and one brown! This is brown is Kahvi, the first brown lamb born at Firefly Fields. We hope that he will sire many more brown lambs for us in future years!!

Mara and her first lambs
The brown one is Kahvi.

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Last update: June 22, 2008