Welcome to The Chronicles. I hope you will enjoy my posts about the joys of raising the oldest breed of sheep in the world -- the always intriguing, easy-to-raise Soay sheep. With few exceptions, posts contain what I hope is useful information interspersed with a bit of whimsy. Feel free to comment on anything you find here. If you want to send me a private message, that's okay, too. Send your note to the address on the "contact us" page of our main website (***saltmarshranch-dot-com). Meanwhile, enjoy The Soay Sheep Chronicles! Priscilla
Over the last few months, we have received a number of questions about white spotting, one of the most visible traits in British Soay sheep. I have to admit I never gave much thought to spotting until now; it was just there in our flock. But worried Soay sheep colleagues sooner or later worry me, […]
When Tiny Tim arrived on April 17, 2013, weighing in at just one pound 13 ounces, we despaired that he would survive, much less catch up to his greedy twin sister. Loyal readers know we were lucky to be able to place him with an adoptive mother at the ripe old age of one day, […]
I am grateful to those of you who pointed out the deep spam attack on this site and I am pleased to report that the vermin who hacked it have been sent packing. Now back to posts about the joys and occasional challenges of raising Soay sheep, the oldest, most genetically interesting, and most companionable […]
Loyal readers and occasional lurkers on this blog, It appears that unauthorized “users” may have posted spam/junk here, probably in the last week. If you see any “posts” that have nothing to do with Soay sheep, could you please let me know by sending me an email? (priscilla at saltmarshranch dot com). We have changed […]
Now that the summer temperatures are approaching the 100 degree mark, the thought of having to shear our sheep and wrestle with all that hot wool gives me the willies – yuk! Thankfully, the lore about Soay shedding their own fleece is true; with one notable exception, Soay sheep really do cast off their fleece […]
I just can’t resist sharing a photo I was lucky to get a few days ago. Most of our lambs are now in a sunny high dry area of our farm with their moms, and are moving off to pasture grass a weeks’ worth of lambs and mothers at a time. How the lambs love […]