Our wait list for the 2025 season is full
We currently have no ewe lambs available for the 2025 season. We do know other breeders that may have stock available so please feel free to get in touch. Since we are keeping most of the ewes back this year for ourselves we should have more available for the 2026 season. Please keep us in mind! The wait list for the 2026 season will open in January.
Ewe Lamb Wait List
What does it mean to be on the waitlist? Email almostafarmstore@gmail.com with any questions and to get on the list!
We charge a $50 non refundable deposit on each ewe lamb you would like. So if you want one lamb you etranfer $50, if you want all five available you send $250.
The lambs are $400 so you will only owe $350 for each lamb when you pick them up.
Colour choices can not be guaranteed. Icelandics come in a lovely rainbow of colours and it is to hard guarantee what is coming out. First come first serve for colour choices. If you want a brown ewe lamb and you are the first one to sign up, you get first choice if there is one born.
When you sign up for our waitlist you will have a lamb available to you. These are living things and sometimes accidents happen. If anything happens to your chosen lamb before you can come get it I will pull from mine options to replace it. But your deposit is non refundable once you sign up.
Email almostafarmstore@gmail.com with any questions and to get on the list!
Good ewes are the foundation for any sheep farm and we are so grateful to ours. We started out just breeding for hardiness and good mothering, its really handy to have animals that want to live and take care of their young. For us that means the can handle the wild swings of weather we have here in Alberta, they do not show signs of parasite distress, good forgers, lamb on their own and keep track of their babies. I have only had to pull two lambs in five years, neither of those cases were their mothers fault. In one case it was the last in a set of triplets and did not survive to be born, in the other it was a twin and got flipped around when its huge brother was born first.
They only times we have had bottle babies is when I did not do enough. Mostly working with first time moms. Our ewes have a very strong mothering instinct and sometimes with first time mothers they get stressed when they can not see their baby because they ducked under to nurse. Its scary being a first time mom! After a couple days of forcing them to stand still to let the baby get in there they have settled down really well for me and we do not have that problem with them again.
We do not deworm on mass on a schedule. We keep a eye on them, do fecals and deworm those that need it. Icelandic's are a handy sheep because they do need a bit of copper and they love to eat trees both of these help with naturally combatting parasites. We do not breed anyone who gets the runs or bottle jaw from worms.
Because of the drought and the struggle to get hay we downsized our flock in half January 2024 and are now slowly working on building our flock back up. With that we are keeping back a lot of our ewe lambs. We will have only 5 available this summer of 2025.