HMFF Hybrid Leicesters waiting for feed

On-Line Sheep Management Classes from PIPESTONE

Three courses include Introduction to Sheep Management, Introduction to Sheep Health and Ewe Ration Formulation. The Intro to Sheep Management is a 14 lesson self paced course with continuous enrollment. it is the online version of the successful home study course that provides an overview of year long sheep management. The other two courses are more structured and are designed for more interaction, with required text books...

Pipestone Lamb and Wool Program is a sheep management education/consulting program offered by Minnesota West Community and Technical College located at Pipestone, Minnesota... For more information vist their website at www.pipestoneesheep.com To register visit www.mnwest.edu/formnail/formdl.htm

Looking for wool fleeces for winter spinning? HMFF wool fleeces are posted weekly to my ebay store. I have Bluefaced Leicester, Hybrid Leicester and Border Leicester.

Hybrid Leicester Ewes for Sale I will be selling a few Hybrid Leicester ewes this winter. Each ewe has been exposed to BeechTree Farm Parker. Unrelated rams below will make a nice match. Please contact me if you are interested at hmffarm@fidnet.com

Yearling Rams for Sale

HMFF Jack Be Nimble - a 3/4 Bluefaced Leicester is looking good. Beautiful fleece! and BLUE skin. $200

HMFF HMFF Rook is a Hybrid Leicester with that great Border x Bluefaced hybrid fleece. He is looking good too! $175

And lastly, this bit of fun:

From those crazy Norsemen comes this mythological figure: Heimdall- with hearing so acute he could hear the wool growing on a sheep! The names below might be good names for a guard dog.

Heimdall is the god of light and watchman of the gods He guards Bifrost , the only entrance to Asgard , the realm of the Scandinavian gods. He requires less sleep than a bird and can see a hundred miles around him, by night as well as by day. His hearing is so accurate that no sound escapes him: he can even hear the grass grow or the wool on a sheep's back.

[and he has a swell HAT]

Heimdall's nickname Hallinskíði ("Bent Stick") also appears as a kenning for "ram", perhaps referring to the bent horns on a ram's head. Heimdall's nickname Gullintanni ("Golden-Toothed") would refer to the yellow coloring found in the teeth of old rams.

Heimdall was said to have been born from nine mothers...and was raised on seawater and boars blood. According to Welsh folklore waves come in sets of nine with the ninth one being the ram and the first eight being the sheep (ewes).Old Welsh practice, modern French practice and modern Basque practice is to refer to white-capped waves as sheep.

from various internet sources