General Conditions of Sale

Pricing

We offer competitive pricing that varies depending on several factors: relative availability, type, gender, color, horn characteristics, and fleece characteristics.

Discounts

We provide discounts to repeat customers, and on purchases of four or more animals at one time.

Reservations and Deposits

We ask an advance deposit of $100 per animal to reserve your sheep. We reserve sheep in the same order we receive deposits. Deposits are non-refundable unless we are unable to fill your order.

Healthy sheep

All of our Soay sheep are healthy and should be consistently successful breeders for you. Our lambs are vaccinated with Covexin-8 at about six weeks and again four weeks later. We administer our adult ewes' annual booster immunizations about a month before lambing begins. The rams are vaccinated annually in June.

We use pasture rotation practices to minimize the buildup of parasites in our flock, and we worm strategically from time to time. Our Soay sheep have access to sheep-specific mineral, including selenium, at all times.

Flock of origin identification

Our flock is enrolled in the USDA Voluntary Scrapie Control Program, and all our sheep carry a round numbered eartag that uniquely identifies each of them.

Even if you are buying a twin from us, you will know which one you are getting because we also identify each lamb at birth with a little lamb-sized, numbered green ear tag.

The Open Flockbook Project

The Open Flockbook Project has an on-line database you are welcome to use to check out the lineage of the animals you are purchasing from us. You can also run test matings of the rams and ewes you have selected. We pride ourselves in providing customers with starter flocks of maximum genetic diversity. If you are buying individual animals to add to your existing flock, we will assist you in confirming that the new animals are suitable for breeding to your other Soay sheep.

Pedigrees and registrations

We provide detailed pedigrees and related genetic information for each of the Soay sheep we sell. All of our animals' known ancestors are in the Open Flockbook Project. In addition, our British Soay, adults as well as lambs, are registered with the Rare Breeds Survival Trust in the U.K. We arrange for transfers of ownership for each British Soay sheep we sell.

Paperwork

We will provide you with a copy of our records of tetanus vaccination and most recent worming and the dosage and wormer used, as well as each animal's USDA Voluntary Scrapie Program identification number for its flock of origin, the animal's full pedigree and known phenotypic characteristics, and any other pertinent health information.

If you live outside of Oregon, we will obtain health certificates required for transport to your state; any fee associated with this will be the responsibility of the purchaser.

We have the necessary exporter status to be able to ship to Canadian customers.