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Category Archives: New Shepherds

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Icelandic Sheep: a breed for the new millennium

 

One of the world’s oldest and purest breeds of sheep, the …

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Bringing New Sheep Home

 

You have just bought your first sheep…or, maybe you have a flock of sheep and …

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The Healthy Flock

 

Here at Frelsi Farm we innoculate our sheep against rabies, they get an annual CDT (Clostridial …

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Your Icelandic Sheep: Budgeting and Building a Flock

 

Frelsi Farm sells sheep to first time flocks in pairs (or …

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Your Icelandic Sheep: Flock on a Shoestring

 

How do you build your flock if your farm budget is a …

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A Shepherd’s Glossary of Terms

 

Everyone is a beginner at some point in time…and the new words that come …

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Your Icelandic Sheep: Lambing for the first time

 

Recently a shepherd who will have lambs for the first time …

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The List: Supplies for Lambing

 

Laura Lawson’s Book, Managing your Ewe: online or Frelsi Farm often has a …

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Lambing: How to Tube Feed a Lamb

 

Tube feeding is not hard…really. Sometimes it is necessary. It is not …

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Using the Barn/Jug system of lambing … and why it works for us

 

This April of 2016 will be …

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Fostering or Grafting Lambs

 

There have been a few occasions on which I have had to try to convince …

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Will To Win! Entering Your Fleece at a Fair

 

It is great fun to enter a fleece or fleeces …

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