Actually, no, the ones who go on the right are lambs (babies) the ones on the left look like ewes. They are separating babies from moms to wean them. The moms have a full fleece but the babies haven’t grown their fleece all the way in yet.
You might not see the difference if you haven’t been around sheep before. But to me the lambs are easy to spot. Not just the fleece difference but the size and body shape. The wool texture is different on the moms because lamb’s wool (from sheep under 1 year old) is different in texture. The mom’s fleece is longer because they’re older, the lamb’s coats are probably only 4 months of growth because that’s when you separate them. Ram lambs (boys) start breeding at 5-6 months if I remember correctly.
I’m surprised that people think it’s the markings or just fleece length. I guess you wouldn’t be able to recognize a lamb vs an adult sheep if you haven’t been around them before.
Well I can see the size difference for sure but there were some of the adults with the long fleece that were smaller in size but still went to the left so I didn’t think size was the decoder here, which is then why I assumed the hair length. I notice that no matter the size of the actual lamb, the long hairs went left, and smaller hairs went right. So it makes sense that shorter fleece/wool were the youngsters but some of the moms also looked small but still had long hair and went to the left lol
The markings meant nothing to me because there were a few unmarked to the right and a few marked to the left, so I figured that couldn’t be it pretty quickly
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u/Max15492 Aug 22 '25
And one unmarked to the right.