Before winter slips away, I thought I'd share a few more photos. Here is the north pasture, so calm and peaceful in it's blanket of white. The view right across the road from us. I love our meandering creek.Wandering in the winter wonderland.Our ducks taking a winter swim.Snowflake, our Sebastopol goose who thinks she's a sheep.Elvis, one of our Muscovy drakes. With a crest like that, how could we name him anything else? A barncat, sunning herself.
Salem, always keeping a watchful eye. We may have her bred this spring. We've never had crias born on our farm. We could use another guardian.
Rams, hanging out. Their job is over for another year.
They are such a handsome group. A few of the ewes, waiting for breakfast.
Our matriarch Stella, wading through the snowdrift.
The days are getting longer. The snow is almost gone. Lambs will be here any day!!!
Wow, can't believe you still have snow on the ground. Pasutures here are slowing starting to turn green. I turned my sheep out on to some green pastue for a little while yesterday... they were soooo happy! Suppose to get blasted by a snow storm this evening.... well see.
I love your ewe Hesperis- she is so cute! I hope I get one marked like her or Glimmer.
Home to a beautiful flock of registered Icelandic Sheep in Northern Illinois. 2011 was is our ninth season of lambing. We’ve worked hard to build a flock that encompasses all the aspects we love about the Icelandic breed--hardiness, exceptional meat conformation, superb maternal instincts, prolificacy and outstanding fleeces. Please look around and feel free to contact me with any questions you might have. We offer quality breeding stock, both mill spun and hand spun yarns, roving, and raw fleeces. Welcome to Red Brick Road Farm!Questions?rbrfarm@centurylink.net
Wondering about the names of our sheep? "Most" of our sheep are named according to the year they were born, especially those born here on our farm. Our first lambs had "A" names, so this being our 6th year, our lambs all have "F" names. It makes it easy for us when looking at our flock to know the age of the sheep. The sheep that we bring in to our flock sometimes have their own names, or I'll rename them according to our flock year. On this blog, I'm trying to post the oldest ewes first, then I'll move on to rams, then lambs.
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Wow, can't believe you still have snow on the ground. Pasutures here are slowing starting to turn green. I turned my sheep out on to some green pastue for a little while yesterday... they were soooo happy! Suppose to get blasted by a snow storm this evening.... well see.
I love your ewe Hesperis- she is so cute! I hope I get one marked like her or Glimmer.
It is amazing how each season looks so beautiful. I remember how green the pasture looks in your summer pics.
Tammy, these photos were taken earlier in the year, but we do have a few drifts left.
Great shots...beautiful sheep!
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