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| Blaget, krunet ram lamb at Belmeadow, 3 days old | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Shetland belongs to a Northern European short-tailed group which includes the Icelandic, Finn, Romanovs and others. It is believed that they were brought to the Shetland Islands by the Vikings. They are considered a primative breed, shaped by the harsh conditions and meager diet available to them on the Islands. Small and relatively slow-growing, they maintain a natural hardiness, easy lambing, adaptability and longevity. The smallest of the British breeds, rams usually weigh 90 to 125 lbs. while ewes tip the scales at about 75 to 100lbs. Rams typically have beautiful spiral horns, while ewes are usually polled. Shetlands are reknown for their beautiful fine fleeces that come in the widest range of colours of any breed. At Belmeadow we aquired our firstShetlands in 2002. We offer breeding stock, pets, raw fleeces, hides and freezer lamb. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pictured here is our founding flock sire Ch Woolly Acres Cymbeline, AKA Pepper. Bred by John and Lynn Mckay, he was purchased from Dorian Clarke of WhatYouWill Shetlands. Pepper is an ideal Shetland ram. He won Champion ram at the first Shetland Sheep Breeders show in Erin, Ontario in 2003, while his fleece won first place in his division at the Royal Winter Fair at the Ex in Toronto On. Pepper has produced some nice lambs for us and we retained several of his daughters before moving him on. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Twin ram lambs Belmeadow Romeo and Belmeadow Rooster were sired by Woolly Cymbeline out of Fox Run Lichen. Romeo was awarded Grand Champion Ram as well as the Ram Most Representing the Original Importation of Shetlands From the Islands to North Americ (2005 NASSA AGM sheep show held by the Shetland Sheep Breeders of Ontario). Both rams were sold to Nick and Sue Jeeves of Manitoulin Island.
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WillowGarden Cliff Carlisle is a mioget gulmoget purchased from Bill Steerman. His sire is WillowGarden Spencer Tracy a Great Plains Tisket son . Cliff's dam is Juneal Shock. Cliff has awesome horns and fleece . He is the sire of our 2008 lambs . | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Above are pictures of our mature ewes. Lichen the musket ewe, was purchased from Fox Run Farm and always produces spotted lambs for us. Hopeful Bianca, a white, ilget, ewe was bred by Michele Minty. She has a beautiful crimpy fleece. Bianca's half sister, Hopeful Licorice, a shaela ewe (darker gray) usually twins. Her daughter Belmeadow Nutmeg has a beautiful light-gray fleece. Pictured below left: WhatYouWill Portia moorit, krunet ewe. Bred by Dorian Clark, Portia has a very crimpy fleece.Her first lambing she produced twins, one of which was a katmoget ewe. To the right: Thistlecroft Harmony, a moorit ewe with a long, primitive fleece. Bred by Dawn Teetzel , Harmony had a single ewe lamb as a yearling. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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For more info, please contact triblue@bellnet.ca , (519)787-1637 |
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| . | Twin moorit ram lamb - sister is a katmoget- Baxter x Portia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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