"Foula"s first day on the job
We have included here a number of links, literature and catalogs that have
impressed us. We hope you find them interesting and useful.
LINKS
A Few Places To See
Soay Sheep
Cotswold Farm Park- England
"A
rare farm experience for all the family." This is a fun, friendly introduction to the
conservation of heritage livestock breeds and is where the Rare Breeds Survival Trust
began.
http://www.cotswoldfarmpark.co.uk/
Gaerllwyd Flocks of Rare Breed Sheep and
Poultry - Wales
Gaerllwyd Rare Breeds maintains a flock of
"Hirta" Soay sheep representing the
breed as it appears on Hirta. Here one can view polled, horned and scurred rams and ewes
and also see the wide variety of colors and markings that naturally occur within the
breed. Lambs are available in the late summer- early autumn and adults are available year
round.
http://www.gaerllwyd.co.uk/index.html
christine@gaerllwyd.plus.com
Highland Wildlife
Park- Scotland
Specializes in Scottish Wildlife from the past
and present. This is a wonderful drive through park that provides an opportunity to see
Soay sheep up close. HWP is the source of the first importation of Soay sheep to Canada in
1974
http://www.highlandwildlifepark.org
Resources for Flock
Management
Open Flock Book Project
An on line genetic database of Soay Sheep, both British and North American,
registered and non-registered, available free of charge to anyone who shares data about
their Soay sheep with the database.
www.openflockbook.com
USDA Voluntary Scrapie Flock Certification Program
For information about the program, how to enroll, obtain ear tags or to check the status
of flock by State or breed
http://scrapietag.aphis.usda.gov/reports/sisstate.php
Cornell University Poisonous
Plant website
Very informative site about plants that are toxic to livestock
http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants
Sheep@Purdue
A wonderful sheep resource with links to other excellent sites
http://ag.ansc.purdue.edu/sheep/
Maryland Small Ruminant page
Another excellent ruminant resource with links to other sites
http://www.sheepandgoat.com
Fiasco Farm
Website with exceptional photographs demonstrating trimming of hooves
http://www.fiascofarm.com/goats/hoof-trim-rf.htm
The American Sheep Industry
Association - Biosecurity
http://www.sheepusa.org/
Click on online Resources, type in Biosecurity, click on Biosecurity
An excellent place to begin research on Biosecurity.
Biosecurity on sheep farms
http://www.sheep101.info/201/biosecurity.html
another thoughtful article
on biosecurity
Sites for Fiber Artists
Hand weavers, felters and spinners
Antrim Handweaving (US)
Margaret B. Russell is a handweaver with over 25 years of experience and a
lifetime appreciation of this ancient art. Several small and
very select sources, including Southern Oregon Soay Farms, supply Margaret with the
natural fibers for her weaving. Her looms are dressed with these choice fibers,
producing heritage pieces including tea towels and table runners, scarves and wraps.
She weaves on multi-shaft floor looms in her home studio in Byfield, part of the small
coastal town of Newbury, in northeastern Massachusetts. Handwoven pieces are sold at
a limited number of juried artisan shows throughout the year. Commissioned work is
accepted. Her handweaving workshops and classes are
offered at area arts centers.
http://www.antrimhandweaving.com/
Still River Mill US
Still River Mill is a family-run mill which services small scale farms and animal
owners processing a variety of natural fibers. Their services include washing, picking and
carding, spinning single or multiple ply, lace weight spinning, dehairing /fiber cleaning,
dyeing fiber or yarn and felting .They are experienced in processing both Soay and
Boreray wool along with other animals including buffalo. .
P.O. Box 397
Eastford, CT 06242
www.stillrivermill.com/
Email: sales@stillrivermill.com
Fibers
http://hem.bredband.net/ronpar/
Woolworks Studio at Letterfourie in Scotland
Letterfourie is a 300 acre estate in Northern Scotland which is home to a flock
of 200 Soay sheep. It offers self-catering
retreats, which can include use of the woolworks studio -including looms and
spinning wheels -as well as courses in spinning, dying, felting and weaving, It is also available for private functions. Soay fleeces in a variety of
colors, which are rooed (hand-plucked), washed and graded are available as well.
www.letterfourie.com
St. Kilda on the Internet
St. Kilda
a magnificent website detailing the St. Kilda Islands
http://www.kilda.org.uk/
Antiquarian and Second Hand
Scottish Books
The St. Kilda and Farthest Hebrides Page
Kathie's favorite site for used books about St. Kilda
http://www.grian.demon.co.uk/kilda.html
How to get to St. Kilda
Island Cruising aboard the
MV Cuma
The only way to go.
http://www.island-cruising.com/
LISTS
Soay Sheep Breeders List
An open discussion list for anyone with an interest in either British or American Soay
sheep. This US
list is unmoderated and all discussion is welcomed.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SoaySheepBreeders
Soay Sheep List
An international open discussion list for anyone with an interest in Soay Sheep
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soaysheep
SOCIETIES/CONSERVANCIES/COOPERATIVES
Soay Sheep Society (Friends of the
Soay and Boreray)
UK
Secretary : Janice Wood : Tel: 0161 976 4734
20 Alice Street,
Sale, Cheshire M33 3JF.
Email: SocietySecretary@soaysheep.org
http://www.soaysheep.org
International membership can now
be accepted and dues can be paid through Pay Pal. Email: soaysheepsociety@btinternet.com
The Soay Sheep Society (Friends of the Soay and Boreray)
produces an especially nice newsletter and is the breed society for (British) Soay Sheep
in the United States.
American Livestock Breeds
Conservancy US
P.O. Box
477, Pittsboro, North Carolina 27312
Phone: (919) 542-5704
Email: albc@albc-usa.org
http://www.albc-usa.org
U.S. Organization dedicated to the conservation and promotion of
endangered breeds of domesticated livestock
and poultry
Rare Breeds Survival Trust
UK
National
Agricultural Center, Stoneleigh Park
Warwickshire,
CV8 2LG England
024 7669 6551
Email: enquiries@rbst.org.uk
http://www.rbst.org.uk
UK organization dedicated to the conservation
of Britain's Native
Livestock Heritage
"Milo"
and his link to his flock
LITERATURE-BOOKS-DVDs
selected bibliography
A number of these books are out of print, but may be available
through used book dealers.
 DVD
of Soay Sheep on St. Kilda
Darlow, Michael, SOAY Sheep on the
Island at the Edge of the World
22 minutes packed with pictures and facts about the oldest type
of sheep in the world and the remote, stunningly beautiful North Atlantic islands they
come from – St Kilda. available in both NTSC (US) and PAL (UK) formats.
Direct Inquiries to: sales@boams.co.uk
(UK): kathiem@soayfarms.com (US)
Soay Sheep Photo collection by
Beth Maxwell Doyle
wonderful photos and video of the Soay sheep onof St. Kilda taken in 2007
http://www.ramshornstudio.com/soay.htm
Soay Sheep
Clutton-Brock,
Tim and Pemberton, Josephine, Soay Sheep Dynamics and
Selection in an Island Population, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004.
Darlow, Michael, Sam’s Soay Sheep Book. Bradford On
Avon: BOA MS Ltd., October 2005
Stories,
facts and lots of pictures about the most mysterious and lovable of all sheep.
A new book for children that grown-ups love. For
information contact www.boams.co.uk
Jewell, P.A.,
Milner, C. and Boyd, J. Morton. , ed. Island Survivors: the Ecology of the Soay Sheep of St.Kilda.
London: Athlone Press, 1974. (out of print)
ISBN 0 485 1114 1
Care of sheep (livestock protection dogs too)
American Sheep Industry Association. SID Sheep
Production Handbook
6911 South
Yosemite, Englewood, CO 80112-1414
Castell, Mary. Starting With Sheep
available from Country Smallholding,
Tel: 08700 718 817 (7 days a week, 24 hour)
Postal Book
Orders: Country Smallholding Bookshop, PO Box 60, Helston, TR13 0TP ISBN 906 137 28 4
Email: books.csh@archant.co.uk
Dawydiak, Orysia,
Sims, David E. Livestock
Protection Dogs, Selection, Care and Training, second edition. Loveland, Colorado
(P.O. Box 7027). Alpine Blue Ribbon Books 2004)
ISBN1-57779-062-6
Frazer, C.M.ed. The Merk Veterinary Manual.
Rahway, N.J.: Merck and Company, Inc.
Henderson, David C. The Veterinary Book for Sheep
Farmers. Ipswich, UK: Old Pond Publishing, 2002 ISBN1-903366-30-5
Parker, Ron. The Sheep Book, A Handbook for the Modern
Shepherd, Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press, U. of Ohio Press, 2001 ISBN#
0-08040-1032-3
Simmons, Paula
& Ekarius, Carol. Storey's Guide to Raising Sheep,
Breeding, Care, Facilities, Pownal, Vermont: Storey Communications ISBN
1-5-8017-262-8
Weathers, Shirley
A.. Field Guide to Plants Poisonous to Livestock, Western U.S,
Fruitland, Utah: Rosebud Press, 1998, ISBN0-9-660397-3-4
.
Winter, Agnes C. and Hill, Cicely W.A Manual of Lambing Techniques. Ramsbury,
Marlborough: The Crowood Press Ltd. 2003 ISNB1-86126-574-3
Conservation of Endangered Breeds and
Related Topics
Alderson,
Lawrence. The
Chance to Survive, Rare Breeds in a Changing World. London: Cameron &
Tayleur, 1978 (this is the first edition, there have been two reprints)
Bixby, Donald E.,
Christman, Carolyn J., Ehrman, Cynthia J., Sponenberg, D. Phillip. Taking Stock, The North American Livestock Census, Blacksburge, Virginia:
The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co., 1994 ISBN
0-939923-35-1
Clutton-Brock, Juliet, A Natural History of
Domesticated Mammals.Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN
0-521-63495-4
Dohner, Janet Vorwald. The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and
Poultry Breeds, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. ISBN
0-300-08880-9
Erskine, Kent, ed. Colored Sheep and Wool: Exploring
their Beauty and Function. Ashland, OR: Blacksheep Press, 1989 ISBN 0-9608736-2-7
Kinsman, David. Black Sheep of Windermere, A History
Of the St. Kilda or Hebridean Sheep. Windermere, Cumbria: Windy Hall
Publications, 2001.
ISBN 0-9540283-0-9
Lundie, Roger S. and Wilkinson, Elspeth, ed.The World
of Coloured Sheep, New Zealand, Black and Coloured Sheep Breeders' Association
of New Zealand, November 2004. ISBN 0-476-00928-6
Ryder, M.L. Sheep and Man, London: Gerald
Duckworth & Co., Ltd. 1983, ISBN 00-7156-1655-2
Sponenberg, D.
Phillip and Christman, Carolyn J. A Conservation
Breeding Handbook, Pittsboro, North Carolina: The American Livestock Breeds
Conservancy, 1995, ISBN 1-887316-00-0
Sponenberg. D. Phillip and Bixby, Donald E. Managing Breeds For A Secure
Future Strategies For Breeders And Breed Associations, Pittsboro, North Carolina: The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, 2007, ISBN
978-1-887316-07-1
St. Kilda
Buchanan, Meg, ed. St. Kilda: the Continuing Story of
the Islands. Edinburgh: Glasgow Museums, 1995 ISBN# 0-11-495172-1
Fleming, Andrew. St. Kilda and the Wider World, Tales
of an Iconic Island. Macclesfield, Cheshire: Windgather Press, 2005 ISBN
1-905119-00-3
Harman, Mary. An Isle called Hirte, A History and Culture of St. Kilda to 1930.
Isle of Skye IV55 8GD: Maclean Press, 1997 ISBN 1 899272 03 8
Maclean, Charles. Island on the Edge of the World, the
Story of St. Kilda, New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1972 ISBN# 0-8008-4263-4
a popular
history of the St. Kilda Islands and the people who lived there
Steel, Tom. The Life and Death of St. Kilda, the Moving Story of a vanished
Community, Glasgow: William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd. 1975. ISBN #
0-00-637340-2
Another interesting book on the history of St. Kilda
Fiber
Simmons,
Paula. Turning Wool into a Cottage Industry, Pownal, Vermont: Storey
Communications, Inc., 1991 ISBN: 0880890045
Cooking
Fraley, Carol. Cooking For A Good
Life, 2008
available through
Wind River Farm Saturday Market http://shop.windriverfarm.com/main.sc
ARTICLES
"Ancient Treasure: Soay
Sheep", Sue Weaver, Hobby Farms, Rural
Living for Pleasure and Profit, January/February 2008
"History on the Hoof",
Steve Werblow, Homestead
Life Beyond City Lights, published by John Deere, winter 2006.
"History on the Hoof, Steve
Werblow, The Furrow,
published by John Deere, November 2006
Two lovely articles about saving endangered livestock breeds from extinction
"The
Need to Conserve Different Types of Shetland Sheep", Sponenberg, D. Phillip, D.V.M.,
Ph.d., NASSA NEWS, vol.3, no. 3, Summer, July 1993
An article written about Shetland Sheep that can equally apply to the Soay
"Counting
Sheep", Clutton-Brock, Tim, Natural History, 3/94
MAGAZINES/JOURNALS
(US and UK)
Soay Sheep Society, Friends of the Soay and
Boreray, Newsletter
Acting Membership Secretary
http://www.soaysheepsociety.org.uk
The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy News
P.O.
Box 477, Pittsboro, North Carolina 27312
Phone: (919) 542-5704
Email: albc@albc-usa.org
The Ark, Journal of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust
National Agricultural
Center, Stoneleigh Park
Warwickshire,
CV8 2LG England
024 7669 6551
Email: enquiries@rbst.org.uk
Wild Fibers
P.O.Box1752
Rockland, ME 040841
207-7853932
www.wildfibersmagazine.com
Email: info@wildfibersmagazine.com
Hobby Farms
P.O. Box 37188,
Boone, IA 50037-0188
www.hobbyfarms.com
E-mail: hobbyfarms@bowtieinc.com
Sheep!
Magazine
P.O. Box 10
Lake Mills, WI 53551
http://www.sheepmagazine.com
Countryside
and Small Stock Journal (USA)
W11564 Hwy 64
Withee,WI 54498
1-800-551-5691
http://www.countrysidemag.com
Country
Smallholding, ( UK)
Archant Devon, Fair Oak Close,
Exeter Airport Business
Park,Clyst Honiton,Near Exeter, EX5 2UL
Subscriptions: Linda James Tel: (01392) 444274
Email: subs.csh@archant.co.uk
http://www.countrysmallholding.com
Smallholder (UK)
Katie Short, (Newsquest) South
West
3 Falmouth Business Park,
Bickland Water Road, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 4SZ
Telephone (01326) 213333
http://www.smallholder.co.uk/index.html
CATALOGUE
& SUPPLY COMPANIES
Shaul's Manufacturing
Livestock Handling Equipment
Specializing in sheep and livestock handling equipment;
chutes, pens, feeders, panels, gates, stands, squeezes, stockracks. Their light weight
panels are especially useful around our barnyard. Also custom work, reasonably priced.
Sutter, California
(530) 695 8185
www.shaulsmfg.com
Jeffers
livestock supplies, including vaccines, veterinary syringes, fencing supplies,
clothing, boots, even boot repair kits.etc.
P.O. Box 100. Dothan, AL 36301-0100
Phone 1-800-533-3377
http://www.jeffersLivestock.com
Pipestone Veterinary Supply
Livestock (sheep and goat) Antibiotics to vitamins plus a library of
articles, archive of photographs of topics from blood collection to white muscle
disease, and a list of management tips.
PO Box 188, 1300 Hwy 75 S.,Pipestone Mn 56164
[507] 825-5687 (information line only)
[800] 658-2523 (orders only)
http://www.pipevet.com/default.htm
Valley Vet Supply
Complete line of animal health care products (prescriptions, OB wire saws, wormer,
vaccines)
1118 Pony Express Hwy., Marysville, Kansas 66508
www.valleyvet.com
1-800-419-9524
Quality Llama Products and Alternative Livestock supplies
A wide range of alternative
livestock supplies, books, signs, rubberstamps, custom made halters. If you need a
custom made halter for your Soay, your Reindeer or your Yak this is the place.
33217 Bellinger Scale Road,
Lebanon, OR 97355
1-800-638-4689
http://www.llamaproducts.com
Premier 1
A supplier geared to sheep: animal supplies, fencing systems,
panels and chutes, ear tags.digital lamb scales, etc.
2031 300th Street, Washington, IA 52353
1-800-282-6631
http://www.premier1supplies.com
Sheepman Supply Company
Another supplier geared to sheep. They carry a
wide variety of products including ram's supplies, lambing supplies, herding tools, books
and videos and health care products.
PO Box A.
Frederick,
MD 21702
Phone:
800-331-9122 or 301-662-4197
Fax:
301-662-0361
http://www.sheepman.com
|
