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We strive to produce well balanced Icelandic sheep that are the
triple purpose breed they were intended to be utilizing some of the best polled AI genetics available from Iceland
and top quality breeding rams available in the United States.
We look for polled, colourful individuals with good meat, milk and wool potential with an emphasis on meat conformation, selecting fast growing animals that are easy lambers with exceptional udders and milking ability. We keep the very best of the lamb crop for ourselves and our customers. We are a small farm and although we adore our sheep, we keep just 15 adult sheep through the winter months. As a result I believe we cull harder than the average shepherd for those qualities that we desire. We never sell culls as breeding stock and never anything that we wouldn't keep ourselves. When you buy a lamb or adult sheep from us you can be assured they're among our finest. All of our sheep are raised around other animals and lambs are handled at birth much like imprint training of new foals, making our sheep easy to work with and a joy to have, ideal for the small farm, first time shepherd or shepherdess.
"It warms the heart and gives pleasure to pause for a moment before spreading the morning hay in the manger. The sheep turn their attention to the shepherd. It evokes a feeling of loving kindness to look into these mild, innocent and trusting eyes, full of hope and faith in the shepherd." Asgeir Jonsson from Gottorp, 1949.
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©2006 copyright David W. Grote
All images exhibited at this web site are for public viewing only.
No reproduction rights are granted, licensed or sanctioned in any form or manner and are hereby exclusively reserved by the artist, David W. Grote
All images exhibited at this web site are for public viewing only.
No reproduction rights are granted, licensed or sanctioned in any form or manner and are hereby exclusively reserved by the artist, David W. Grote