| Ram Sires at The Lavender Fleece. We are very proud of the rams that we have gathered here at our farm. We are striving for excellence of conformation, consistency in lambs thrown, luxurious fleeces and strong horns. Our stock represents what we believe to be some of the best of the North American bloodlines combined with excellent genetics from Iceland. On this page you will see our leader ram. Follow the links to view the rest of our ram flock. To learn more about how to handle rams on your farm, visit our ram behavior/management page. |
| A note about rams: we believe strongly that rams should live with other rams and not with the ewe flock. If you are starting out with sheep for the first time, we strongly urge you to purchase at least two rams - or a ram and a wethered companion - and plan to set up separate housing/paddock/pasture facilities for your rams. This will insure that you can work amongst and enjoy your ewes and lambs in safety without having to "look over your shoulder" For the most part Icelandic rams are friendly and easy to work with BUTany ram can turn aggressive at any time, and particularly during breeding season. To this end, we try to offer special "ram packages"* to our customers because we really believe that it is best for the animals and for the families who buy them, to have rams housed separate from the ewes. For more information about this please read our page on ram behavior. *When purchasing several ewes, and if we have extra rams only. If not, we will work with you to locate rams or wethers from other farms if we don't have enough rams in a given season. |
| Ram Fertility - WARNING!! Using LA200 to treat rams for various reasons may result in your rams being infertile for up to 60 days. Beware of using this drug during breeding season! |
| PLEASE NOTE: For those who live in northern climates, we no longer advise shearing Icelandic ram lambs their first fall. The stress of shearing and going into rut, combined with unpredictable fall/winter temperatures can be too much for some rams to handle. In Iceland the sheep are housed indoors all winter. It is interesting that here in the United States we harvest their fleeces in the fall,, house them outside in a variety of weather climates, breed them their first season and expect them to grow and thrive. Interesting.... |
| LF 109R "Skumurson" Son of Iceland leaderram Skumur Moorit spotted horned single (AI) 5/8 AI (Skumur,Ari and Blesa leaderlines) This handsome leader ram is shown at 16 months of age. He joined our ram pen for the fall 2005 breedings. We measured the chest circumference for our Skumurson at 5 months of age. We were extremely surprised and impressed to find that he had a measurement of 82 cm (Not bad when you note that the "average" chest circumference - meaning some are less and some are more - is 82.9 for 5 month old rams at the Southram station in Iceland.) Especially noteworthy is that Skumurson has 3 leader lines in his genetics, yet has a nice fleece and decent conformation for a leaderram. Leadersheep have not been bred for improved (meat) conformation or fleece, traditionally, and hence, they tend to be built more narrow and are taller most rams.. The 2006 lambs out of the Skumurson were all very vigorous and fast growing. Of special interest this season is that the lambs out of Skumurson have been showing high levels of parasite resistance and have been very fast growing. We've also discovered that several of his daughters are proving to be prolific - twinning as yearlings! For the 2007 breeding season (2008 lambs), Skumurson was being bred to Luthien, Lucy and Rosey. |
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