Fence Row Farm Icelandics

05/17/2022

For anyone looking for Icelandics, I haven’t raised sheep for several years. I still love the breed, though. Good luck on your search!

11/13/2019

10/11/2019

All I can say it that it's a very good thing that we retired from raising our beloved Icelandics. This has been a VERY full year of time commitments plus a terrible year, weatherwise, for farmers. We got enough hay for our needs, I think, but between the weather and the lack of strong young men willing to help with the hay harvest, it is getting harder and harder to find farmers willing to make the square bales that we prefer and for the farmers to find 3 days in a row suitable to cut and bale the hay. I don't know what I would have done if I were feeding 50 instead of 8!
This weekend is the fall FiberExpo, which we usually go to. It is so very early this year that neither Laura or I could go (as MIchigan Icelandic Co-op). I WILL be taking my roving and yarn to the Fiber Arts and Animal Festival in Marshall, next month, November 15 - 17. I hope to see many of you there!

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09/30/2019

Shearing day! We may not have many, but we do appreciate Doug making time for us.

05/26/2019

Icelandic chicken —Threatened
Icelandic chickens originated with the settlement of Iceland in the tenth century by the Norse, who brought their farmstead chickens with them. For a thousand years, the only chickens in Iceland were of this robust landrace. Importations of more commercial strains of chickens into Iceland in the 1930s, however, led to crossing onto the native stock, threatening its survival as a pure landrace. Successful efforts in Iceland in the 1970s to conserve pure Icelandics were followed by their importation into other countries, including the United States. Icelandics have much to offer as a more self-sufficient homestead flock. Learn more here: http://bit.ly/IcelandicChicken

05/03/2019

Its shearing day.

03/21/2019

The spring FiberExpo is coming. We hope you will join us April 13 and 14 in Ann Arbor! Fiber Expo www.fiberexpo.com

Welcome to Fence Row Farm, a family farm located in the lower peninsula of Michigan. We are in our tenth year of raising horned Icelandic sheep, a primitive breed of sheep with a colorful dual coat and a fine textured delicious meat.

03/16/2019

Check out todays featured vendor: Michigan Icelandic Co-Op sells wool products from Icelandic sheep raised right here in Michigan. The Icelandic breed produces a dual coated wool that is wonderful for both spinning and felting. Our sheep provide us with wool in a variety of natural colors. We sell natural and dyed roving, hand spun and mill spun yarns, raw fleeces and, occasionally, handmade items from our wool. We are two friends, with two separate farms, who share a love of this beautiful breed of sheep.

10/15/2018

FiberExpo is coming! Laura and I (Michigan Icelandic Co-op) will be there, though in a different location. Please come by our booth!
http://www.fiberexpo.com/page/page/4831882.htm