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https://www.facebook.com/groups/Icelandic.Sheep/ I love it! You should join for the photo album alone! Several of the major breeders hang out there and are so helpful. Apparently there is also a Yahoo group for the Icelandic Sheep Breeders Association of America, but you have to be a member...

Icelandic's have a really high requirement for cobalt so extra supplementing if you are in a known low cobalt area is the way to go. Do you have any Icelandic people to help give you advise? They have pretty different mineral requirements than other sheep. They are more goat like in mineral...

Once the grass is up nicely, I don't offer hay. You can just play it by ear you know? I find that no matter how much hay they have, or how nice the grass is, if I bring a flake of hay out, they all come over and pull it out of the feeder just to check if it is something extra good. In the...

If you are feeding alfalfa and quality free choice minerals, with a small amount of grain in winter, it is fine to use corn for the grain. You may find as you get to know your goats better, that there are other grains you wish to include. I feed a little corn to my pregnant ewe in winter, I also...

She is stressed from being alone. The company of other sheep is very important to their feeling of security. I bet she will get over it, more likely if she has another animal out there to bond with. If you are not going to butcher her, you really should get another lamb for company.

What do you use to paint your fence gates? I have some metal tube gates that I want to paint.

That's interesting. I wonder how well it holds up to freeze and thaw. I don't think I will use it as the first line design, our soil is soft so digging an extra hole is probably less work than cutting those angles on the brace posts for me ,and going to the store to buy the rock, every time I go...

I like woven wire with braced wooden posts at the corners and gates, and metal T posts for the straight lines. The smaller the holes are, the less likely critters are to pass through. I have sheep fence and it has 4 inch holes, I love it, but it was more costly than standard field fence. You...

They are both ewes. And for sale if anyone is interested!

Icelandic lambs are THE cutest!!

They certainly are pretty!

Norse, I was fortunate to find a good breeder that was selling off her flock and getting out of the business. She had this wonderful momma sheep who had easily twinned 4 times before, so I snatched her up. She is the best mother!!! The only thing is, I didn't know if I wanted horns or not, so I...

Why can't you have any icies?

This is my first year with sheep and only one of my ewes was bred, so here are both my babies from this year!

I do the CDT vaccine. It is easy to do yourself as a subQ shot. More info :http://www.sheepandgoat.com/articles/CD-Tvaccinations.html

I hope this was just a fluke and the rest are easy.

He really is a good looking guy, very masculine.

Well, based on the date that the previous owner saw the escaped ram actually in with the ewes and breeding them, due date is March 20th would be the due date. But, she said he also had escaped "a few weeks earlier" and while she didn't see him breeding anyone, he was alone with them. Soooo, any...

Yes the advice for Icelandics is very confusing isn't it??? Everywhere you read about how they don't need grain and be careful to not overfeed, but then you don't want the ewe to go into ketosis either. The woman I bought my icelandics from said her first year she nearly lost her first ewe...

Icelandic ewe lamb, solid moorit color. My photo and I grant permission to use for any purpose of this website.