These ewes are excellant color producers and most of them possess the 'Ticking" gene.  Ticking is caused by the Ticking Gene and can affect any white areas over time.  White areas appear to develop small to extremely small spots or freckles of a contrasting color as the sheep ages.  The ticking can be expressed minimally with only a few spots far apart or extremely where many small spots over time eventually fill in the white area like the Loud Patterned sheep pictured below.   Lambs can start to develop ticking even at birth or the ticking may wait to appear until after the sheep has reached ages such as eight years old.  However, usually ticking will begin to show up by the time the sheep reaches age two or three. Some sheep can have such an extreme amount of ticking in the white areas that they actually loose their spotting pattern with age. Ticking can also affect only certain areas of the body like the face, the ears, or the legs.  This color change affects can be seen in all patterns from Flashy to Minimal and can affect any area of the sheep's body. (United Horned Hair Sheep Association, Inc.)

Bentley's Blitzen

He has put some interesting patterns on the lambs and lots of color. 

 photo taken 9/20/2010 

Measures Bronze Class Trpohy horns

at 82.875 inches

 taken 12/12/09

Bentley's Blitzen 

born April 2008

photo taken June, 2009

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Lambs & sheep on this page are for sale.  Please check often as this pages changes.

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OTO picture taken 07/04/10

Photo taken 3/2010His ticking spots are really noticeable and he is putting these on his offspring.

 Bentley's Obviously Ticked Off 

Bentley's Blitz X  Bentley's Olivia    

Born 3/3009  photo taken 12/12/09