Archive for 'Shetland'
Posted: April 10th, 2008 by
Lisa
Flickr is now allowing short video clips. I finally figured out how to make my camera take a video and what software to use to get it to Flickr. (All by myself! Go me.) If I can link them properly in the same fashion, here are some clips from yesterday. I still need to get several critters to perform on command, so stay tuned, and hope for better weather. It’s horribly windy and cold out there today.
Posted under Birds, Bjarki, Chickens, Critters, Dogs, Ewes, Geese, Icelandic, Llama, Pigs, Rams, Shearing, Sheep, Shetland, Turkeys, Töfradís, Wether, videos.
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Posted: January 12th, 2007 by
Lisa
I posted this story on a couple of sheep boards: Sheep Production Forum and Homesteading Today Sheep We had settled on breeding Icelandic sheep when friends of a friend needed to get rid of this flock when they lost their farm in Vermont, so we took them in. (free sheep in winer — the
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Posted under Critters, Farm Life, Sheep, Shetland, electronet.
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Posted: January 1st, 2005 by
Frank
We had a sad start to the new year. Raven and Sue killed Panic overnight. We went out this morning to feed them, and he was dead in the pen. And now the two survivors seem to be getting along. (They’re still a mite prickly you understand, but no real fighting.) We’d started a thread
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Posted under Death, Icelandic, Rams, Shetland.
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Posted: December 13th, 2004 by
Lisa
It snowed overnight, not more than an inch or so, and when I went to see how the sheepies handled it, I found the Icelandics all inside their shelters, and there were these little black spots of bare ground where the Shetlands had all spent the night out in the snow, the little weirdos. I
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Posted under Icelandic, Sheep, Shetland.
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Posted: December 6th, 2004 by
Frank
I was away for the weekend, visiting Lisa on location. Valerie and her boyfriend Kevin took care of the sheep over the weekend. All went well except she reports that Sue is coughing. Lisa also mentions that she’s heard it. I’ve heard him cough twice, a couple weeks apart. Again today he didn’t cough at
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Posted under Icelandic, Sheep, Shetland, Valerie, cough, illness.
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Posted: November 28th, 2004 by
Lisa
So no one got out last night, despite the new shed fencing being adjusted very late last night. Woo! It’s like we are getting the hang of this. (Knocking madly on wood just in case.) When I went to feed the mamas and the papas, they went out to where we’d been feeding them all
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Posted under Rams, Sheep, Shetland.
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Posted: November 15th, 2004 by
Lisa
I think we are certifiably insane at this point. We are hugely busy trying to get ready for the sheep this fall, but on track to make it, and somehow we’ll find time to get the firewood in. When Todd was over helping with the sheds the other day, his wife Debby wrote to me
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Posted under Sheep, Shetland.
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