Baer Creeks Snowball

Snowball was another lamb that I got as a bottle baby. She is very people friendly and likes to follow me wherever I go. She is the leader of the pack and it takes a lot to send her running scared! She is great for calming down the Chevoit ewe. Snowball is a wool breed that requires sheering twice a year in this hot Texas heat. Spanish sheep first arrived in Florida in the 1500's. Later importations of Spanish and other breeds of sheep mixed with the earlier population, all evolving under the strong natural selection of the native range conditions of Florida and the other Gulf Coast states. Today a remnant of this population survives and is known as the Gulf Coast. Gulf Coasts have a small body size with a refined bone structure. They have open (wool free) faces, clean legs and underlines and are white to dark brown in color. They have also developed a degree of resistance to internal parasites. Gulf Coasts are adapted to the hot and humid conditions of the Southeast, continuing to produce and raise at least one lamb per year.