I bought some Icelandic ewes and hogs from Kindrochaid Farm on Islay in 2008 and we bred our first lambs in 2009. They are easy to keep, as long as they're kept away from brambles and gorse, and are excellent rough grazers. We bred 20 lambs from the 12 ewes this year, having brought them onto shorter grass in the paddocks, so the terrible rain and cold didn't affect them at all, as it had the previous year in much rougher grazing.
Cola and Pepsi at the back, Mars, Kitkat and Candy front. Coke and her 2010 twins.
 Gin and her 2011 moorit mouflon girls  |  Below: Ewes at weaning time. Left to right: Snowflake, Kitkat, Mars & Soda, with hogs Sooty and Patch on the right.  |
Kitkat and her boy twins which she very carelessy mislaid.  Cola and her single ewelamb Skew. Which I think is a yuglet, flecket, socket !!  Two Hebland ewes, photo taken July 14th, showing how they've shed their tail end wool - yet retained their fleeces which have a moorit tinge to them rather than the usual grey tinge of a Hebridean.
 The tups (rams) will be going out on December 1st: Hebrideans will go to an Icelandic tup to produce more Heblands Icelandics will go to an Icelandic tup to produce more pure breds Heblands will go to an Icelandic tup to produce three quarter bred Icelands White Lleyn/ Hebrideans will go to the Lleyn tup. | Pepsi and her twins  Coke and one of her twins - ewelamb Panda Pie  As well as breeding Icelandic sheep, we also put an Icelandic ram to our Hebridean sheep to produce what I call "Hebland sheep". These are the 2010 lambs being weaned.  These 2010 Heblands all produced good lambs to a terminal sire in 2011.  |
