Updates coming this week

Lambing has kept me real busy for the past couple of weeks, so unfortunately I've not had a chance to photograph any fleeces to put up for sale. I have every intention of starting to list fleeces again starting tomorrow. I have at least 20 fleeces sitting in my kitchen waiting their turn. A lot of these are from the last 2 years that I had every intention of washing and sending out to be processed. BUT, without a paycheck I could not do that. So, I will be offering them for sale to pay for the fleece that is already washed to go to the mill.

Right now 50% of all the fleece sales are going right back to the barn as hay and grain and 50% are going into a PayPal account to go to the mill to pay for processing. By the end of summer I anticipate having LOTS of roving available.

Headed to Zeilinger Wool Company next week will be white Romney and white Dorset/Romney. I am out of Romney for dyeing, and I am out of a number of dyed roving colors. Hopefully come early summer I will be healed enough from my 2nd ankle surgery to start dyeing again.

Sallie's Fen Fibers will be getting different wool to be blended with either Mohair, Llama or Alpaca. I have a drop dead gorgeous white Dorset/Romney with incredible crimp that is going to be blended with a young (1 or 2 year old?) white Alpaca that also has a great crimp. I have a Badger Icelandic  that will be blended with a black and white Mohair fleece. I have a couple of Stormy's gray Romney fleece that will be blended with the same colored Alpaca. I also have at least 10 black & silver Mohair fleeces, 3 white kid Mohair fleeces and 2 black and white kid Mohair fleeces that will all go to Sallie to be made into roving.

I do not believe that I will have any yarn made this year. If I do, it won't be until later this fall after Angora goats have been sheared again. I have colored Dorset fleeces to finish washing and what ever we get for dark Mohair fleeces to go to Sallie's to become sock yarn, and maybe some DK weight. I will leave that to Sallie and what the fiber 'tells her the weight it wants to be'.

So, please bear with me and keep an eye on this blog and on the Wool n' Ewe page on Face Book.

Thank you all for your continued support!

We are hot and heavy into our lambing season right now. I am hoping to get fleeces posted here between lambs tomorrow. Today I am off and trying to get some errands done.

I thank you for your patience.

As part of the Livestock Conservancy's initiative to bring back threatened sheep, like our Horned Dorset, as well as others we shear that are on their lists, I will be 'pushing' those first. And, most likely that post will stay at the top of the blog.

But, there will be plenty of other breeds posted here. Especially my favorite Dorset/Romney!!

I am out of here.

TTFN.

Shave 'em to save 'em

In spite of all the nastiness PETA is spreading about shearing sheep, there are a lot more good news being spread about the sheep industry.

I am excited to be a part of the Shave 'Em to Save 'Em Livestock Conservancy Initiative (as seen in our header).

https://www.facebook.com/groups/SE2SE/

We raised Polled Dorset for a number of years, until we met the Conley sisters from Fruitcake Farm in Grafton, NH. We discovered that they raised Horned Dorset and that they were on the Livestock Conservancy's endangered list. To this day, they are still on the threatened list. https://livestockconservancy.org/index.php/heritage/internal/conservation-priority-list#Sheep

We LOVE our Horned Dorset sheep! Great mothers, great wool and friendly. Easy to move from location to location and they come equipped with handles. ;)

As part of this initiative, and as an Official Fiber Provider, we will be offering our Horned Dorset raw fleece, roving and yarn for sale here. And, I just might dust out my Etsy shop....

We will also have raw Baby Doll Southdown by the pound and Shetland roving by the ounce, and yarn by the skein. They are both on the Recovering List.

We have Oxford in king sized quilt pads, and possibly raw fleeces later in the spring, as well as raw Tunis later this spring. They are both on the Watch List.

If you are interested in Navajo Churro, also on the Threatened List, I can put you in touch with one of our shearing customers. She has raw fleece and yarn. We will start shearing her crew March 10th.

I also have Jacob roving and yarn available. They are also on the threatened list.

My couch is 1/2 covered with llama fleece. 1/2 of them sold already. Thank you ladies!! UPDATE: the couch is empty! Thank to all who purchased from us.
My kitchen looks like it threw up 3 dozen sheep. And, our bedroom looks like it threw up a dozen or more alpacas. We won't get into what is in my daughter's room...

I apologize that I did not get any more fleeces listed today. I've been on the computer quite a bit answering questions about fleeces and lambs, and on USPS calculating prices and finding boxes, and packing fleeces, and finally driving 2 boxes to the Post Office because my lazy ass mail carrier will NOT do her job and come get the boxes. Even though she gets paid extra for doing so...

I hope tomorrow the sun is shining so I can put the alpaca fleeces on the deck to take pictures and to get them posted. The sheep will have to wait until Monday as we will be on the road a good chunk of the day Sunday shearing and doing toe nail trims. 😃 UPDATE: by the time we got home it was time to put the animals in and for the humans to collapse...

In the meantime, look through the rest of the  blog. If there is a sheep fleece you may be interested in let me know by emailing us and I will see if I still have it. The post with the numbered sheep fleece, if it doesn't say 'SOLD' then it is still here. I've not had a chance to update the posts that list the sheep by name. Hopefully I can get to that tomorrow...

I am seriously hoping to get some updating done tomorrow on the blog,  as well as working on my taxes...

Llama

ALL of the llama has sold.

Thank to all who purchased from us!

 #1-6# $30

This is more than 1 llama.
If you only want 2-3#,
let me know @ eweifarm@msn.com
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 #2-5# 11.2 ox. $28.50

#5 1# 13,3 oz $9.25-SOLD

#6 1# 14 oz. $9.25 

 #3 4# 2.7 oz. $20.80-SOLD

Freya

 #4 2# 9 oz. $12.88-SOLD

Russell

 #9 1# 13 oz. $9.15

Munch

 #8 1# 12 o. $8.84-SOLD

 Llama 2nds $5 for the bag

 #7 2# 9 oz. $12.88-SOLD

To the person who left the anonymous comment from New London, NH. We do not lease llamas to guard other farms. Sorry!
But, if you are ever interested, we do shear Baby Doll sheep at 3 other farms. 😃

Some of the dark fleeces

 This is a wall of fleece in the guest bedroom.

The top shelf is all white Icelandic lamb fleeces.

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2 different Icelandic fleeces

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Delores, Border Leicester

I have not decided it I am going to sell this

 fleece or not as I noticed she has some scurf.

If the sun comes back out tomorrow, I will take 

some better pictures of each fleece and post the 

weights and their prices,  as well as pictures of the lengths.