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16.10.2011 23:13

Icelandic Islandsheep

Today I got to know a (for me) new way of keeping sheep over summer: have them on an island! Kiddi in Helluland uses one of the islands in Laxáriver to keep the lambless sheep over summer and in autumn. He brings them there with his tractor and a trailer and the are roaming free there the whole summer. Well, it was time to fetch them and so we helped him to get them back. When we arrived at the island it was hard to believe, that there have been animals the whole summer as the grass was so high, you couldn´t see a single sheep.
Sparði, Kiddi's sheepdog, was a big help in gathering them. Kiddi just had to walk in front of the little, colourful herd, Sparði was in the back and we just had to walk along and follow them to the trailer. The sheep entered it without fear, already being used to these means of transport. 
Back home, the sheep were put off the trailer and the 2 young sheepdogs used the oppurtunity to train themselves a bit.






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