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
Yesterday was a stunningly beautiful early autumn day in the foothills of the Siskiyou Mountains, a perfect day to photograph the rams leaving our farm for eight (so far) new homes in the next few weeks. Now I’m back inside with a couple of hundred photos and struck by how many of them show an […]
Our junior llama, Hank, went to a new home a few days ago and we owe him one more blog post before he fades from our collective memory. Never as storied as his mother Llucy, Hank simply hung out with our British Soay rams in the bull pen and kept them safe from the ever-present […]
We have almost reached our goal of trimming our flock size by half due to the imminent departure of our ranch hand, but we have a few ewes and a couple of rams left for anyone who can come to our farm to pick them up from anywhere in the Pacific Northwest or within a […]
I was out yesterday taking pictures of our adult ewes to send to people who have taken advantage of our half-price sale when a sweet 2013 ewe, Winfield, walked right up to me and began shamelessly chowing down everything in front of her nose. It was all I could do not to laugh out loud, […]
I have stalled long enough. We almost never part with one of our adult heritage ewes, and the thought of selling several of them this year makes me very wistful. But we have sent our sheep to many many other farms over the years with happy results and I know that will happen again this […]
Since we announced our half price sale a couple of weeks ago, several people have asked to see pictures of the heritage sheep we have on offer. Here is a sample of the 2015 ewe lambs available for purchase now at half price, or $250 each. We welcome your inquiries! Next up: pictures of our […]