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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: CrazySheep on February 17, 2017, 05:03:49 pm

Title: Hello from Aberdeenshire
Post by: CrazySheep on February 17, 2017, 05:03:49 pm

 :wave: Hi all,

We keep a small flock of sheep up in the North East of Scotland and are now in our 5th year. My wife is a keen hand spinner which led us to start our own flock. Funny that we started with 2 to and have ended up with a flock of around 30, mostly a mix of registered and unregistered Shetland sheep.

We mainly concentrate on fleece production and with the aim of improving the quality of the wool. The unregistered Shetlands are put to a heavier crossing ram, a Grey Faced Dartmoor, to produce bigger lambs which always sell on well at the mart.

Our lambs are sold either privately or through the local mart at Thainstone. We also sell a few for the freezer and let the lambs grow on to either hogget or mutton for a bigger carcass with a richer flavour.

Our flock consists mainly of Shetlands but we have kept a few odd sheep as we "test drove" a few different breeds before settling on Shetlands. So we have a few Black Welsh Mountains, a Jacob and a couple of Grey Faced Dartmoors which being big softies we couldn't bear to part with.

Looking forward to joining in the conversation regarding all things sheep related.

We also keep bantam Scots Dumpy chickens but that's another story!

Title: Re: Hello from Aberdeenshire
Post by: MischieMoo on February 22, 2017, 09:49:30 pm

Hello from Moray. :wave:

We have 16 Shetland/Gotland crosses which is also good for hand spinning.

Title: Re: Hello from Aberdeenshire
Post by: mojocafa on February 23, 2017, 08:05:04 am

 :wave: from arbroath

Title: Re: Hello from Aberdeenshire
Post by: Rosemary on February 23, 2017, 09:14:47 am

Hello and welcome from  :gloomy: Carnoustie  :wave: (I'm not gloomy, just the weather)

Title: Re: Hello from Aberdeenshire
Post by: NotQuiteASmallHolder on February 23, 2017, 09:45:02 am

 Hello from Montrose :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from Aberdeenshire
Post by: clydesdaleclopper on February 23, 2017, 06:46:28 pm

Another hello from Aberdeenshire from a fellow fleece breeder  ;D


I have a lovely Gotland ram for sale if I can temp you  :innocent:

Title: Re: Hello from Aberdeenshire
Post by: Steph Hen on February 24, 2017, 07:51:30 am

Hello from Angus  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from Aberdeenshire
Post by: Polyanya on February 24, 2017, 11:01:29 am

Hi there - I'm from a Shetland croft and keep Shetland sheep for meat and fantastic fleece and for their ease. Welcome  :wave: