It's been awhile since I've blogged - school started, we entered sheep at the wonderful Flock and Fiber Festival in Canby, Oregon, lots of work going on here at the farm and Turkey Day has come and gone... We've gotten our breeding groups together - using 3 herd sires (2 rams and a ram lamb) and 17 ewes. As far as herd sires go - I like them to have a very nice fleece - lots of thel - soft undercoat, and nice tog - not too coarse - outercoat. Size is important - we're looking at passing on good genes for fast growing lambs as breeding stock and grass fed lamb. Conformation - how the body is put together - straight back, horns far from face, back legs straight (not cow hocked). Personality counts too - so far our rams just run away from us, but if any ram turned aggressive, he would be turned into sausage quickly! So some pictures of our two rams - Salty and Coconut, and I need to get a photo of Romeo - a Black Gray ram lamb (my favorite of all the Icelandic colors, and I must say he has the most stunning fleece! So we are eagerly anticipating lambs starting around mid April 2008...
