Friendly Faces and Wide Places

 Rattle, Rattle, here come the cattle...nope...sheep!

 Sheep with babies...coming soon!

 End of March or beginning of April...

 Darla...later in April.

 Cinderella

 Shetland and Icelandic

 Joelene

 Ivy may be first to go.

 Emory will be the first Icelandic to lamb.

 Cora or Caroline? We have near identical twins and rarely can tell them apart...tag numbers!

 Emmalee

 Heartthrob

 Cinderella

 Since 2010 we have had a nesting Cooper's Hawk ( I think) pair.

My favorite Icelandic, Moonpie! She loves me. As we were leaving the pasture, she came after us. She usually does.

Snow Sheep in the South

 A few inches from Monday night with more to come Wednesday night.

 Hungry Shetlands and Icelandics...

 Jolene says, "We're waiting!!"

 Birmingham, Icelandic ram on left and Jolene, Icelandic ewe on right.

 Ivy, Shetland, looks on.

 "Stop taking pictures and get our food, please!"

 Moonpie says, "She said please!"

 Look at that dusty face after eating grain...yet there is a smile!

 Heartthrob waits to come in for hay.

 So is Darla...

 And so is Rosaline! No sheep starved to death in this photo shoot!

First snow at our house in 2015 and more is falling as I type this blog!!****

Just Back From The Mill...

 ...lovely Shetland roving. Frankenmuth Woolen Mill does such an excellent job for us...whether Shetland or Icelandic.

 Creams and greys...such variety.

 Roving is framed by a Shetland lace shawl and a handwoven Shetland rug.

 Icelandic rovings including our 2 black sheep...Moonpie and Birmingham

 Grey on left is Rosaline with white from Emory in back. Fawn colored Quincy on the right.

Lots to spin...now if I only had time! Looking forward to lambs in early April...stay tuned!!

Shetland Breeding Group

 This fall we had only two breeding groups...one Shetland and one Icelandic. We used this really nice grey gulmoget ram lamb on 8 ewes. Two of the ewes will soon be leaving for their new homes.

 Hidaway Farms Cinderella- grey yuglet

 Hidaway Farms Cora and Caroline- twin grey katmogets and Hidaway Farms Emmalee- fawn katmoget

 Rare Find Farm Heartthrob- grey

 Hidaway Farms Nala (sold)- fawn katmoget and Hidaway Farms Ivy- white

 Hidaway Farms Orchid (sold)- moorit yuglet sokket

Nashville

Fall is in the Air at Hidaway Farms!

 Rear view of the Shetland & Icelandic flock grazing.

 Hidaway Farms Addison - moorit gulmoget Shetland ewe lamb.

 Darla, black and white spotted mouflon horned Icelandic ewe.

 Rosaline, yearling black badgerface Icelandic ewe.

 Joelene, black spotted badgerface yearling Icelandic ewe.

 Rosaline and Shetland, Violet in the background.

 Darla grazing.

 Rosaline and Moonpie, black Icelandic ewe.

 Lovely time of year!

 2014 NC Mountain State Fair- Long wool flock with our new polled Icelandic ram lamb, Birmingham.

 Rosaline, Champion Long Wool Ewe and Supreme Champion Ewe shown by Christine.

Emmalee, Champion Shetland Ewe with Katie, shown by Lauren.


Fabulous fair...can't wait for SAFF!

Cities and States

 This year our theme for lambs will be...cities and states of the USA. As of today we have 6 lambs...3 sets of twins...4 rams and 2 ewes. Three Shetland mothers have lambed...5 Shetlands to go and 3 Icelandics.

 First up was Electra on March 31st. Her two sons are above...grey smirslet (looks black now) is Lorado and his flashy smirslet katmoget brother is Lincoln. They are the bullies of the group.

 These cuties are Nala's twins born April 1st. Above (see his horn buttons?) is Vance...he is a fawn katmoget. His sister is the little moorit one with him below. Her name is Virginia.

 Lambs are just like toddlers...into everything and exploring...especially with their mouths.

 "Life is good!" Looks like Virginia is smiling.

 Lambs also constantly try out those legs...as long as Mom is nearby.

 Born to Violet on Saturday, April 5th, was a solid moorit ram lamb and an adorable moorit gulmoget ewe lamb. We are calling him Austin, His tiny sister is Addison.

Welcome to our flock, little ones! You will soon have more friends to play with!