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hedgeapple farm

Specializing in Icelandic lamb, breeding stock and fiber

WELCOME

Welcome to Hedgeapple Farm located in scenic Dallas County, just outside of Earlham, IA.,which is about 25 miles west of Des Moines, IA. We raise purebred Icelandic and Icelandic X Suffolk sheep for their outstanding meat and wool and their ability to thrive on pasture only. Although we're not certified as organic, we strive to use organic methods to provide our customers with a quality, healthy product using intensive grazing.

We had our third Icelandic shearing last October and have already sold several fleeces and others will be processed into roavings, bats and yarn.

For those interested in starting, expanding, diversifying or improving their Icelandic flock we have breeding stock available. See our link for Breeding Stock for more information.

Our first crop of purebred Icelandics and Icelandic corsses were available as processed lamb cuts beginning October, 2007. We're now down to three lambs which are to be processed in early 2008. These will be available as halves and whole lambs with carcass weights of 35-45 pounds.

In addition to our sheep we also have a flock of free range Black Australorp and Buff Orpington chickens which are currently meeting our own egg needs. We anticipate expanding our flock to make eggs available for sale in the summer of 2008.

There are also our bees which produce a wonderful tasting honey along with beeswax.

Web Site Under Development

After much effort and not a little proscrastination we offer here our our new web site. Many pages remain under development and will be posted when completed.

Fall Shearing Day
We held our fall shearing day on Saturday, October 27th. In additio nto our sheerer, we had other spinners and knitters who watched the sheering. Our next sheering day will be in late March 2008. If you'd like to attend please wear your barn clothes because you may well be recruited to help as catch sheep, vaccinate, trim hooves, etc. If you're interested in attending please go to our "Links" page for contact information and let us know you'd like to come.

The Lambs are Here
Our first Icelandic/Suffolk cross lambs started arriving the last week of March 2007, much to our surprise. Suffolk ewes cycle earlier than Icelandics but we didn't think Napolean, our, at that time little ram, was able to get the job done on those much taller Suffolks. Apparently he persevered.

Our Icelandic lambs started arriving the second week of April and thrived on their mother's milk and pasture grass.

For our current breeding season we're using Rocky as our sire for our adult ewes. You can find a picture of him on our link for breeding stock. For our lamb ewes we'll be using a 2007 ram that was sired by Napolean and Clover who can also be found on our link to breeding stock.

Do You Want to be Notified of Shearing Day and Product Availability?

Email us at hedgeapplefarm@iowatelecom.net.

and let us know what you're interested in.