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If you are not ready to pay the higher purchase price of a flock of all-British Soay or you want to be able to play around with breeding, explicitly aiming for particular colors, particular horn shapes, spotting, or other looks, you can do what some of us did start with Americans. We began this way primarily because it is what we stumbled upon first. It also allowed us to test drive having Soay sheep before we started building our British breeding flock.

There are as many ways to put together an American Soay flock as your imagination can dream up breeding for all black Soay, breeding for polled ewes (no horns), breeding for larger animals to sell for meat you name it. Here is one example to help you get started in your thinking.

We started with four American (and American/British) ewes and one British ram Chestnut. From reading and talking with experienced breeders, we knew from the start that breeding British rams to American ewes usually produces extremely well-conformed animals with the somewhat smaller frames characteristic of British Soay sheep, but also with the possibility of a much wider array of fleece color from the American stock.

Our first year, we bred Galadrial to Chestnut. Galadrial is a nice looking, average size brown ewe with lots of British in her background, making her an American/British ewe. chestnut is a 100% British, quite short, stocky, small brown ram. The result of this breeding? Twins Antony and Cleopatra, both of whom have classic British looks clean lines, excellent sweeping horns, salt and pepper grey or light brown fleece. Antony and Cleo are shown here as newborns with Galadrial, and also as adults. Handsome, aren't they?