Author Topic: flying shetland sheep  (Read 12635 times)

kanisha

  • Joined Dec 2007
    • Spered Breizh Ouessants
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Re: flying shetland sheep
« Reply #15 on: October 13, 2012, 08:40:10 am »
what a beautiful lamb thank you for sharing shes gorgeous!!
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Hermit

  • Joined Feb 2010
Re: flying shetland sheep
« Reply #16 on: October 13, 2012, 08:41:47 am »
Perfect, a stunning, pretty  little sheep. £1.00 unbelievable. I only breed whites so they dont look different enough for names.I dont do pet sheep , pet goats yes ;D .
 

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: flying shetland sheep
« Reply #17 on: October 13, 2012, 08:53:26 am »
Lovely story and fantastic price. I would sit in a crate if I could at that price  :thumbsup:
Sally
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rbarlo32

  • Joined May 2010
Re: flying shetland sheep
« Reply #18 on: October 13, 2012, 10:03:19 am »
She is really wool, and thank you she is a very nice sheep, you can see now that she is in with the other sheep that she is a little different, she she has a different head but she should cross nicely with the ram.

Sally is you find any cheap way of getting sheep from Iceland please let us know as mum really wants some but we can't quite afford that much oh and maybe we could sneak a pony or two over ;)

shetlandpaul

  • Joined Oct 2008
Re: flying shetland sheep
« Reply #19 on: October 13, 2012, 10:49:45 am »
[size=-webkit-xxx-large]NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO [/size][/size]please dont tell her really don't. a lady a few miles away imported a number of Icelandic ponies from Iceland  if your desperate we can ask her how. but it won't be cheap. even rarer are Faroe ponies and sheep. very intresting breeds[size=-webkit-xxx-large]

rbarlo32

  • Joined May 2010
Re: flying shetland sheep
« Reply #20 on: October 13, 2012, 12:04:06 pm »
I know how she get the ponies from Iceland, she got the 4 ferried from Iceland to mainland Europe they got driven through Europe to France, where they got on the very to England and driven up to Shetland.  It must have cost an arm and a leg, much more money then my parents would ever pay for a pony for me.

princesspiggy

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Re: flying shetland sheep
« Reply #21 on: October 13, 2012, 03:16:50 pm »

Anyone know if such a thing exists from Iceland...?  :-J :eyelashes: :innocent:


oh yes, Iceland deliver everyday to our village  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: flying shetland sheep
« Reply #22 on: October 13, 2012, 05:40:02 pm »

Anyone know if such a thing exists from Iceland...?  :-J :eyelashes: :innocent:


oh yes, Iceland deliver everyday to our village  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

shetlandpaul

  • Joined Oct 2008
Re: flying shetland sheep
« Reply #23 on: October 13, 2012, 05:43:39 pm »
for some reason they fly them to belgium for about 900 eus

Hermit

  • Joined Feb 2010
Re: flying shetland sheep
« Reply #24 on: October 13, 2012, 07:52:19 pm »
Horses for courses! Some folk wont eat beef, some folk wont eat pork, some folk dont eat meat full stop, some folk eat tarantulas and icky sea things. It is a cultural/ personal  thing. Transportation is the issue.

FoulaLass

  • Joined Mar 2013
  • Shetland
Re: flying shetland sheep
« Reply #25 on: March 15, 2013, 04:55:59 am »
Anyone still following this?  :wave:

Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: flying shetland sheep
« Reply #26 on: March 15, 2013, 06:39:44 am »
Anyone still following this?  :wave:

Hello and welcome - you are actually living on Foula!!!! 8)  When on holiday last summer we were catching glimpses of the island while walking on the west side of the (main) islands and discussing that it must be really really remote! Next time we get the chance to come up north I so want to go across the Foula, didn't fit it in last time.

FoulaLass

  • Joined Mar 2013
  • Shetland
Re: flying shetland sheep
« Reply #27 on: March 15, 2013, 10:35:09 pm »
I am. It was my gorgeous lamb that Rachel bought.  :thumbsup: Just disappointed I can't keep them all, glad she's in safe hands.
« Last Edit: March 15, 2013, 10:53:01 pm by FoulaLass »

rbarlo32

  • Joined May 2010
Update on the flown in sheep.
« Reply #28 on: September 23, 2013, 01:53:06 pm »
Amelia is doing well, but she is one ewe you can definitely not claim is a pet she is very flighty and jumps when in a pen.  One a slightly different note I rooed my first ever sheep thanks to Amelia.  She is super hardy and tough and has been the picture of perfect health which is great considering she wouldn't have had the immunity to some of the sheep illnesses here on the mainland.
So here are some pictures ranging from last winter till a couple of months ago,







lachlanandmarcus

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: flying shetland sheep
« Reply #29 on: September 23, 2013, 02:25:07 pm »
She is gorgeous, ESP that comedy 'tache!!! :excited:

 

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