A couple photos above of ewe-lamb Flash, getting ready to run off.  She is showing you how alert and wary she is, also how beautifully she is shaping up and she is getting a nice coat of wool.  She really looks like she is ready to launch, and she did take off right after the photo.  Flash will be a replacement ewe for us, and should be ready to breed in a year or year-and-half from now.  We left her mother with Flash this season so that Flash can learn to be a good mother herself.  They are very strongly bonded, still. 

The photo below shows her with some other Santa Cruz Island ewes.