Peaceful Mountain Shetland Sheep

05/25/2026

Shearing day 2026 https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1GUjhXnNzk/

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02/15/2026

Peaceful Mountain 'The Bishop" gets 5 ewes this year. He's never been bred before. Peaceful Mtn. Leon X Lancien Medea. I'm really looking forward to these lambs. It's been 4 years since I have bred any ewes, and I miss lambs! I've got three of my favorite ewes in with him, Picasa (White Pine Aithsetter X Peaceful Mtn 'The Druid' both Albf), Peaceful Mtn Nessie (Maisie X Truffles), and White Pine Qatana (White Pine Loki X Under the Son Risa). I have only ever had white lambs from Qatana and I suspect she may be homozygous for white. This is the first time I've tried a white to black breeding though, so who knows!? I love the fun of good surprises at lambing time! :)

01/18/2026

Two friends helped me put a small breeding group together yesterday. I know it is late in the year, but I am looking forward to lambs. From the ram pen I chose Peaceful Mtn 'The Bishop". His sire was Peaceful Mtn. Leon, who I sadly lost when he stuck his head under a fence and died. He was a magnificent ram and fortunately I had used him heavily the year before. Bishop's dam is Lancien Medea. Bishop is the truest black that I have, no sign of grey in him yet. He is fine fleeced, nice horns, and good conformation. There are 5 ewes in with him and only one has lambed before, White Pine Qatana (white). The others are 3-year-old ewes, all Peaceful Mtn bred and all fine fleeced. Selkie (moorit), Nessie (dark Light Badger Faced), Picasa (Katmoget but covered over with Flecket), and Ember (black flecket). Picasa took me for a ride into the hay feeder and I have a couple of nice bruises. I'd really love a race and a couple of gates to run them through and separate them. I'm getting too old for the 'dive-grab-hang on' method of catching sheep!!

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12/15/2025

When I got my first two Shetland sheep, I had never heard of the breed. I had a few Targhee sheep and some Angora goats and I wanted a black sheep. I loved my first Shetland sheep so much, Chocolate and Cheetah, but I did not realize that their fleece was not to breed standard for 'kindly' ( soft ) fleece. I joined the group 'Shetland sheep', on face book, and proudly posted photos of my sheep, only to be told that they were not breed standard and one person, in the UK said, about Cheetah, " That is NOT a Shetland sheep!" Cheetah had a fleece that was twelve inches long and board straight. I was devastated! I cried. I felt angry. I considered leaving that 'mean' group! Then I swallowed my pride and began to learn. What I learned is that most US sheep came for the import of Colonel Daily's sheep, a small gene pool, and that, because of their high cost, most all were bred regardless of their characteristics. Thus our US sheep 'drifted' away from breed standard, a standard created to save the kindly fleeced sheep as the Shetland sheep with longer, rougher, fleeces were not in danger of fading out. So I began my journey towards softer sheep. Several waves of new ewes came in. Each purported to be 'soft'., and while they were 'soft' compared to many breeds of sheep, they were not the kind of soft that made Shetland wool one of the softest finest wools in the world. Then I brought in some sheep from the Mid West. Sheep from the flocks of White Pine, Lancien, and Chantilly. Finally!!! Very very soft!! I learned to knit. I started to knit what I thought was Fair Isle, and down the same path I went as when I got my first Shetland sheep. So I am on a new journey to learn to knit traditional Fair Isle. Not 'colorwork', not patterns in yarns that are from other sheep breeds, Not bulky ( though I will still be doing some bulky knitting because I love it), but 'real' Fair Isle. I've ordered one ball of Jamieson and Smith two ply jumper weight (fi*****ng) yarn as a guide for my spinning. I have most of the natural colors in my flock already. I learned that there is a new organization formed in the Shetland Islands to share and preserve traditional knitting techniques and information. Here is the link to their organization. https://sokshetland.org/ I hope they will be posting more content soon and I've joined their emailing list. Down the Happy Rabbit Hole I go!

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05/27/2025

Sometimes they are so friendly that it's hard to get photos!

05/27/2025

Misty and her ewe lamb, Rainy, are both available for a new home. Misty is half Shetland and is a creamy off white with a long wavy fleece, Rainy is 3/4 Shetland with a gorgeous crimpy soft emsket fleece.

05/21/2025

Charlotte is a keeper. The only ewe lamb I have from White Pine Yeshivas. Yeshivas puts great fleeces on all her lambs. I have twin rams from her that are the rock foundation of my flock. I'm hoping I can get just one more ewe lambs from her before she is retired to live out her life peacefully with my flock.

05/13/2025

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05/13/2025

2025 shearing is done!!

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03/24/2025

It's lambing time but sadly I will not have any lambs this year as I need to make room before I add any more. I have some wethers, a ram, and a few ewes that need new pastures. Please let me know if you have any interest. Fine fleeced, soft, easy keepers. I run a closed flock and they are healthy.