Our exclusive herd of Heritage Registered Icelandic Sheep are pure quality.  Our farm is your Southern Source for this ancient breed of fine sheep. 

Why Icelandic Sheep??

The Heritage Icelandic sheep come from Iceland and were brought to Iceland by the Vikings.  They where bred, isolated from all other sheep for over 1000 years.  They are an ancient  sheep, intelligent, friendly and outgoing.  They can be finished for meat entirely on grass, without grain.  They have short tails, so no docking is needed and they can be bred in their first year to lamb by the time they are a year, as long as grown out properly.  They are a  medium sized sheep, the ewes at maturity are 132 to 160 pounds.  The rams are 180 to 220 pounds.  They are easy lambers and excellent mothers and produce enough milk to be used in Sheep Dairy's and can easily raise triplet lambs.  Their fleece is double coated with a long outer coat and a short undercoat.  They come in a rainbow of colors, even spots and hand spinners love their fleece.

The Icelandic rams have muscular builds with massive horns and majestic quiet temperments.

One of our Rams, The Trump.

 A.  Spinner's Flock:

The Icelandic fleece is dual coated, soft and can be prepared three ways.  The inner "thel" is a fine wool, soft as cashmere and lustrous.  The outer "tog" is a medium wool, wavy, with little to no crimp.  The wool can be blended together or separated for three different types of yarns.  The fall fleece of the Icelandic is a Hand Spinner's delight.

I love the double coat blended into roving.  As a Hand Spinner myself, I find the Icelandic fleece easy to spin on a hand spindle or wheel and it is simular to Mohair.  Wethered (neutered) rams make excellent pets and fleece animals, should one not want to deal with breeding stock.

B.  Meat Market:

Consider taste, the Icelandic meat is truly gourmet quality and tastes great.  The meat conformation is excellent and the carcass dresses out to about 45%.  Icelandic lambs can gain 0.75 to 1 pound per day on milk and grass alone without need for grain.  Try an Icelandic ram for crossing on your commercial ewes.  (We offer non-registered rams at 1/2 price for this purpose).  Below are two Iceoits, which is a cross of the Icelandic and Mini Cheviot.  They are 4 weeks of age on pasture only. 

Our family has sampled some of their meat, which is considered gourmet lamb.  It is the best tasting lamb (unlike the buck flavored imported lamb at the supermarket) I have ever tasted.  The grass fed and finished lamb is very healthy and they are never fed any hormones or antibiotics to push their growth.  The pelts off the lambs are beautiful and sell very well.

If you are looking for something different and beautiful, this sheep is that.  They are a primative sheep, with personalities close to a goat, friendly and outgoing.  They are easy to handle with their quiet dispositions.  This tough sheep is very parasite resistant and we have selected for heat tolerance as well.  

 

 C:  Milk:

Icelandic Sheep can be easy to milk and trained to the milking parlor or stand.  Artisan Cheese is in great demand and especially sought after.  The Icelandic milk is high in solids, thus well suited to value added products like cheese and Sheep's milk soaps.

***Farm News:  About our Icelandic Sheep...

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Fleece and Roving:

 $10 to $20 per pound Raw Adult Fleece (heavily skirted)

$15 to $25 per pound Raw Lamb Fleece (heavily skirted)

***We do have some raw fleece from Spring 08 which will be good for batting or felting.  They are on sale at $8 per pound (plus shipping), heavily skirted.  We have 2 Gray Morrit and  1 black fleece from adults.  Email or call for more information:  334-327-9252.

I had the best spring fleece sent off to be made into roving.  I have been spinning it up and making socks, hats, and spun some morrit gray and white icelandic fleece together.  This made a double ply white and brown gray yarn.  I am currently working on a sweater with this mix.  I am going to mix in some morrit and some gray as well.  I will post a picture on the site of the finished sweater.  My spinning is still not perfect and the sweater will have a rustic look to it, due to the uneven yarn. 

**It gets cold here in the south, 18 and 20s at night and 40's during the day in Jan and Feb.  Thick sweaters of real wool are impossible to find in the south, but they are sure wonderful when it is cold.  My cap hats were an envy last winter, because they are not sold anywhere in the south either.

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