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Welcome to our Stock for Sale
page! We’ve been working for years
to build up a really top quality
flock of Icelandics, and last fall
we kept the best of the best,
feeling we’d really accomplished
what we’d set out to do. Our
fleeces have consistently won at
Maryland Sheep and Wool over the
years that they’ve been entered, and
our raw fleeces sell repeatedly for
premium prices to handspinners that
seek quality. Our stock is sound
and wide and strong, developed for
good rumens, easy lambing, and
longevity. Each year, we carefully
cull for parasite resistance and
have made great strides—this past
year some of our sheep were only
wormed once! And we only keep ewes
that are of good temperament and
easy to handle. This year we
wintered over 43 ewes of superior
breeding stock.
The past year has been a wonderful
year for us. Our lamb flock from
last year was outstanding! At this
time, we are at (or above) our upper
limit in sheep, though. What that
means, for us, is letting go
some of the best stock we’ve
developed. What that means, for
you, is the opportunity to
purchase some of the best stock
available anywhere. Below you’ll
find three tables of stock for
sale.
The first table lists
adult ewes. They represent ewes
that have been bred for fleece, meat
conformation, hardiness,
prolificacy, lambing ease, mothering
skills, and personality. All of
these ewes are ones that we would be
happy to keep, so that means a lot
in terms of quality. At this time,
this page is blank. All the adult
ewes that were for sale have been
sold, or else we decided to keep
them. In the spring, after lambing,
we’ll make the difficult decision to
let some of our breeding flock go,
so that we can keep some lambs.
Please check out the
Breeding
Ewes Page to select a ewe you’d like and either contact us or keep watch on
the Adult Ewes for Sale page!
The second table is the
Lambs for
Sale Page that lists lambs we’ll be selling. They are the
culmination of years of careful
planning on our part, successfully
putting together breedings that we
felt would complement the strengths
of our ewes. These lambs are
excellent quality. At this time, we
are listing potential lambs (which
you can reserve ahead of time and
save money), and as lambs are born,
we will list them here, with their
increased prices.
Please look over our selections, and
feel free to contact us with any
questions! We have lots more photos
of all of them that we can send, and
we have lots more information about
each one of them that the
limitations of space prevented us
from putting down here. We’d be
glad to help you find just the right
sheep for your flock!”
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