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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Drumnagair on January 25, 2015, 10:16:40 pm

Title: Made my decision !
Post by: Drumnagair on January 25, 2015, 10:16:40 pm

thanks all for your input - Im currently in talks re some nice shetlands from foula isle :D
Title: Re: Made my decision !
Post by: SallyintNorth on January 25, 2015, 10:36:07 pm
Wow!  You've found a source of socialised Foula Shetlands then?  We'll all be queuing up for some;
Foula Shetland is supposed to be very special fleece :spin: :knit: - I haven't handled any myself, mind.

Tell us more as you get further along !  Please !  And pics, of course, when you get to that point  :eyelashes:

Title: Re: Made my decision !
Post by: Fleecewife on January 25, 2015, 10:57:05 pm
Ooh Foula Shetlands - excellent  :thumbsup:

We were hands-on with a flock when we were up in Shetland a while ago - all sorts of colours, double fleece, much more primitive looking than modern Shetlands, which have improved, wool only fleece.

As soon as you get them, pics please  ;D
Title: Re: Made my decision !
Post by: Anke on January 26, 2015, 06:32:12 am
Lovely - BUT better get some fences sorted then....  ;D
Title: Re: Made my decision !
Post by: Drumnagair on January 26, 2015, 02:32:53 pm

hehe well i hope my fences will be ok, i breed shetlands ponies so set up for them and have a few friends up there now, so very excited to be getting another native island breed :D Id read the fleece is pretty special and my mind is already working overtime with the possibilities.. not that i knit myself  :-\
Title: Re: Made my decision !
Post by: SallyintNorth on January 26, 2015, 08:13:42 pm
Quote from: Drumnagair on January 26, 2015, 02:32:53 pm

hehe well i hope my fences will be ok, i breed shetlands ponies so set up for them and have a few friends up there now, so very excited to be getting another native island breed :D Id read the fleece is pretty special and my mind is already working overtime with the possibilities.. not that i knit myself  :-\

I'm sure you'll no be short of outstretched hands for the fleeces!  But it's not difficult to learn to :spin: and :knit: y'know...  :eyelashes:
Title: Re: Made my decision !
Post by: Drumnagair on January 26, 2015, 08:19:35 pm
Quote from: SallyintNorth on January 26, 2015, 08:13:42 pm
Quote from: Drumnagair on January 26, 2015, 02:32:53 pm

hehe well i hope my fences will be ok, i breed shetlands ponies so set up for them and have a few friends up there now, so very excited to be getting another native island breed :D Id read the fleece is pretty special and my mind is already working overtime with the possibilities.. not that i knit myself  :-\

I'm sure you'll no be short of outstretched hands for the fleeces!  But it's not difficult to learn to :spin: and :knit: y'know...  :eyelashes:

haha so Im told..  i tried very unsuccessfully a number of years ago but i may be more motivated with my own ‘special’ wool :D
Title: Re: Made my decision !
Post by: bigchicken on January 26, 2015, 09:38:44 pm
Great choice you will never regret it. Shetlands woohooo.