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Colors, conformation, etc are exactly as depicted.

COLORS FOUND IN CASCADE FARMSTEAD SHEEP

This is a colorful breed.  Lambs are usually born with a brown "mouflon" pattern, but often change color as they mature, leaving interesting contrasts of color on the tips of their lamb fleeces.  Adults will keep their basic color, but may show some "graying" as they mature.  We are currently seeing a variety of patterns such as mouflon (dark with light underbelly), dorsal stripes, badgerface, spots, and markings such as socks and spots or stripes on the head.  Colors include black, moorit in shades ranging from palest creamy beige to caramel and blonde to dark brown, grays in varying shades, some with a lavender cast, and even white with markings.

Fleeces in adult Cascade Farmstead sheep have a natural "break" in the fiber which occurs in spring or early summer, and the fleece is cast off (or shed) during the course of spring or summer.  Shearing is not necessary with this breed!  In the case where the fleece is to be saved for spinning, or if a sheep needs a little help in shedding, we catch those when it's apparent that the "break" has occurred and we gently pull out the cast-off fleece, saving it for spinning, or a natural weed barrier/mulch in the garden, or even letting it drop on the pasture...  birds love this stuff and once they learn you have it, they will use it to make their nests!