The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: kelly58 on April 17, 2014, 07:27:14 am
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Here are a couple of pics of the new arrivals
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Very sweet :love:
You should sell that second pic to a calendar company :thumbsup:
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And I thought mine were cute! Must get clicking!
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Lovely!
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Oh my gosh... They are just beautiful. Beautiful lambs, beautiful mums, beautiful pics.
Do you Ravel? Only JaneKAL on Blacker & Beyond would love to see these pics... I've put a link in the Boreray thread (http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/blacker--beyond-with-ffsb/1548702/51-75#60) over there, but I know they would love you to pop across, say Hi, and tell and show more :)
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Lovely sheep and lambs, there's a few Ravelry folks who would love to see those.
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Absolutely lovely :love:
Fantastic photography too :thumbsup:
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WOW, amazing pictures!!! Totally gorgeous!!! :love:
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Gorgeous babies! :love:
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Beautiful :love: :sheep:
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:love:
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No l dont Ravel, dont have the time. Cant take credit for the pics it was my neighbour, she was so excited about how pretty the lambs were. If anyone was interested in the wool l would be glad to keep it for them. They shed it themselves so would be a long wait :thumbsup: Still waiting for one more boreray to lamb, hopefully a girlie :fc: have 3 ram lambs, have homes for 2 so not bad early days yet. Good mums did it all by themselves :love: An absolute pleasure to keep. :sheep:
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If anyone was interested in the wool l would be glad to keep it for them.
I would love to have some! My friend did the Boreray for the Rare Breeds Survival Trust Rare Breeds Heirloom blanket, and it was a most interesting fibre. We think the fleece she was given was not a good one, and would love to try another or two.
It would be snapped up within hours if you posted it on Ravelry - when the time comes, depending on how much there is, I would be glad to be a middleperson for you to help as many people as possible have a chance to try this very very rare breed fibre.
And/or if you can get it to the September Smallholders' Festival, with some prior notification to attendees that it'll be there, it'll be snapped up I'm sure.
All of which said, if there are local spinners who would like it, I will cede to their claims. (But if you could spare a few hundred grammes, I'd be very grateful. ;))
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No probs Sally glad it would be used. Could send it you. All l ask is a warm vest for the winter :roflanim:
We have someone shear our other sheep so could shear the 8 boreray ? Leave it with me :thinking:
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All l ask is a warm vest for the winter :roflanim:
lol, I'm not sure Boreray is one you want next to your skin! Unless they're very good, and I can separate the inner and outer coats - the inner may be ok. But possibly felty, not sure - the fleece my pal had for the RBST blanket weighed 300g and if we'd tried to get all the good, soft inner coat we'd have had maybe 20g usable in all!
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Coming in here to wave, "Hi"
I too love my Borerays. Very much hoping to get some ewe lambs this year and still not giving up hope of being able to find a Boreray ewe for sale in north Scotland that I can tup this year. Boris in my avatar produced 2 gorgeous girls lambs with a Shetland ewe.
I've mostly wethers since I'm keeping them for fleece - I'll be rooing those that shed and hand shearing those that don't. The undercoat is divine - when I collected all the fleeces for the Boreray project and we realised just how special the undercoat was I hand separated around 12kg of it (that's the undercoat weight......) while Natural Fibre Company were experimenting with a way to do it in the mill and saved me from having to get the last 8kg done by hand. They sell the undercoat as a laceweight yarn, blended with Soay and sometimes a bit of very fine Shetland.
The aran weight yarn they spun from the whole fleeces is actually very nice indeed. Fantastic definition for textured stitches and cables. Not a 'next-to-skin' yarn but people knitted a variety of things. There was a limit on how much anyone could buy because the demand was so great from around the world.
Natural Fibre Company is always interested in buying more Boreray fleece - they are a registered Organic mill though so you can't have used pour on fly treatment in the 2 or 3 months prior to shearing/rooing - not sure of the exact withdrawl period.
Yes, it is a fleece in demand from hand spinners, but some spinners are pretty picky about the quality of their fleece - if you're not sure what makes a good hand spinning fleece then there are some links and info on this page http://www.woolsack.org/AssessFleece (http://www.woolsack.org/AssessFleece)
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Love the pic Mrs Woolsack, your ewe has a lovely colour and markings :love:
Good to meet a fellow Boreray fan :thumbsup: Interesting what you said about the fleece. :thinking:
Still waiting for the last Boreray ewe to lamb ::)