Avonmore, PA 15618
primitive sheep that are calm and docile
and respond well to handling. Their
primitive nature translates into healthy
thrifty sheep that lamb easily producing
vigorous lambs that are up and nursing
quickly. Shetland ewes have plenty of milk for their lambs. Our ewes generally produce twins every year but a few even raise triplets unassisted each year. Their naturally short tails never
require docking. Their most important
physical characteristic is their soft
durable wool, the finest of any British
shades of moorit/brown, and 30 different markings or patterns.
Our ewes come in a wide variety of grays, fawns, moorits, blacks, and whites, as well as dark browns. They are a good mix with some solid colored and others spotted with markings such as krunet, bersugget, smirslet, flecket, sokket, and yuglet, and still others having the pattern of katmoget or glumoget. In 2003 Bonnie produced two strikingly marked lambs - white with black flowing from their heads onto their shoulders. This is an old but rare marking which we refer to as "caped flecket". There are now nine sheep in the flock with a variation of this marking.
"2009 Lambs"
This year we have 84 lambs 'on the ground' including triplets from Dakota, Eudora, Gracianne, Grey Song and Isis and even quadruplets from Hedy. There are nine caped fleckets, ten katmogets - some spotted, eleven gulmogets - one with a black and white spotted head, and even a katmoget/glumoget. There are several bersuggets, lots of spotted lambs - some with major spotting and some with just a bit of body spotting, many smirslets, krunets and solids. We don't maintain a blog for posting photos but would be happy to send you photos via e-mail.
Some of our Rams:
Hezekiah, a beautiful shaela gulmoget, originally from Michigan, joined our flock in 2006. In 2007 he produced four lambs with this striking rare pattern.
S'More, a black and white wide horned yuglet, sokket, flecket came from Missouri in 2005 and is throwing beautiful spotted lambs.
Heathcliff, a wide horned smirslet, with a long stapled loosly crimped shaela fleece, came from Michigan. Among his many daughters in the flock are Darci and Gingersnap, both color modified dark brown ewes.
Ezra, white with grey, and Gideon, white with moorit, are home raised smirslet fleckets with the rare "caped flecket" pattern. They both have long medium crimped fleece.
Jonah, is a home raised black and grey Dailley katmoget with a beautiful grey fleece.
Isaiah, a home-raised gulmoget, has a beautiful mioget colored fleece. This year he sired many sharp looking gulmogets including the mioget colored ewe lamb pictured below.
Isaac, is from the caped flecket line but with more extensive black spotting including black feet and rare Dalmation-like spotting throughout the white areas of his fleece.
All of these rams are even tempered and easy to work with.
When it comes time to trim hooves, worm, vaccinate, or move the sheep, having friendly, halter trained Shetlands makes the job easier and more pleasant. That's why we handle and halter train all our ewe lambs every year. By August each year the lambs are weaned and ready for new homes. Delivery within 200 miles is available. Longer distances can be handled in various ways. Delivery to the FLFF is possible
Isaiah
| Date | Event | Location |
| September 19 and 20 |
Finger Lakes Fiber Festival | Hemlock, New York |
| 1st. Weekend in May |
Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival | Friendship, MD |
Raw
Fleeces
We
take great pride in the quality of fleeces we offer for sale. Little
effort is spared to produce a clean fleece as free as possible of vegetative
matter. The flock is grazed on winter pasture as long into the season
as possible to avoid feeding hay. When hay is finally required it
is offered on the ground to minimize hay in the neck or back wool.
All fleeces are heavily skirted.
The fleeces are available in a wide variety of colors and shades, fiber lengths, and crimp. Some are a solid color while others have a main body color with darker shades of the same color, others have fibers that vary in color from tip to base. We have adult as well as lamb fleeces. All of our fleeces are described in a comprehensive chart free upon request, and we will gladly provide you samples before you buy. We ship throughout the United States.
 Gingersnap's mioget colored gulmoget ewe lamb
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 Indigo Sky's and Gemma's ram lambs
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 Halcyone's twins |
 Hollyanne's twin katmogets |
National Shetland Sheep Association (NASSA)
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