"Girl" has arrived at Misty Morning Farm

Very excited to annouce that our little family milk cow to be has arrived on the farm

2010 Farm Critter Updates!

Hello Folks

Welcome to Misty Morning Farm.

We are honored to live on Misty Morning Farm and we have a number of small breeding programs of qaulity animals.

Check out the different animals links listed to the right to see what is happening in each breeding program.

If you have any questions please feel free to email me at farm@icelandicsheepdog1.com

Please let us know if you would like to book a quarter, half or whole lamb, from our pasture raised lambs, we raise our sheep the way, our grandfathers did.. and it shows in the qaulity of our meat..

We like to raise one pig for ourselves each year, please let us know if you would be interested in a Quarter, Half or Whole pig, as it is no trouble for us to raise two instead of one :) Our pigs are raised with access to fresh air and pasture, they have tons of straw to bed down in and are given all the extra milk, garden and kitchen scraps that our farm naturally poduces..

Located an 45 min from ottawa, Just over an hour from Montreal and 45 min from Cornwall..

Icelandic Sheepdogs for sale in ontario- Puppies 2010

We raise, love and breed the very! rare Icelandic Sheepdog, We have available puppies in 2010, please contact me at farm@icelandicsheepdogs1.com

We also have some older started pups (sheep/farm training).

We strongly recommend reservations if you want a Greenstone Puppy, we breed the best and our dogs and puppies are doing amazing things in the show ring, in the agility ring, in herding, tracking, as therapy dogs and also as full time service dogs, we breed for the ideal family/service dog,

We do not breed for Flyball dogs or for what is considered by some to be a "driven working" dog, this is a incorrect temperment on a Icelandic Sheepdog, they are to be a good farm and family dog, and we are and will continue to strive to breed for correct type, temperment and to continue to improve/monitor/track all known health issues within our choosen breed.

If you want the best in Icelandics, then a Greenstone Icelandic Sheepdog Puppy is worth the wait..

If we don't have a puppy, we would be honored to recommend a handfull of other ISD owners and breeders that meet our strict standards who might have litters coming at this time. I will be happy to answer any questions you might have about the dogs/litters, but in a nut shell, if you are looking for a ISD, here are a few questions to ask..

What are the known health issues within the breed, most will answer HD and maybe eye issues, ask what are the know health issues within their lines and if they say none, walk away..either they are not telling the truth or they don't know, neither answer is a good one..

In truth, we have a number of eye health issues to watch for, we have heart issues to watch for, we have hips to watch for, and a number of other ones to boot, and if they are good breeder they should know what their lines have, and no dog is perfect, just as no human is perfect, you all know what I mean, when your doctor asks you, so what is in your family..well a good breeder should know as well.

What is the temperment on the parent dogs and pedigree like? if the answer is they are perfect, ask for proof, what have they done with the dogs, if they answer that they live on the farm and never come off of it, how do you know what the dogs are like in a urban home.. look to see if they have their CGN or CT or are a Certified Therapy dog, or look to see what their offspring have been able to do as adult dogs, to be fair, not everyone has the choice to come off the farm and put titles on their dogs, but in that case, ask what the offspring have done.. and you will find quite quickly that some lines are doing very well in the show ring and as therapy dogs, while other lines have nothing being done.

Please don't fall for anything being sold as rare.. As with all breeds, we have a few folks that are starting to sell puppies or breed with dogs that do not meet the breed standard and call them "rare" example, we have one blue eyed ISD at this time, and this is incorrect to standard, it calls for dark brown eyes.

Now if you want a blue eye ISD as a pet, because you think its pretty, wonderful, please give that baby a great home, and enjoy your dog, but please don't breed it, or show it or sell it for the same price as a possable show qaulity or breeding quality ISD.

It happens in all breeds that some breeders will try and sell you a "rare" something, and in truth they are just pet qauality ISD that should in fact be sold for less money then a properly breed Icelandic Sheepdog.. it does not make them any less of a loving pet, but a show dog does not a mismark or wrong color make...

Temperment to me is the most important thing we as breeders must look at, I have said it before, and forgive me for saying it again, you can have the most healthy, pretty dog in the whole world with a pedigree filled with Championships and if the dog has a over the top insane prey drive or worse, then its not a good dog nor is it a good representive of the Iceland Sheepdog Breed.

So if you are interested in learning more, please send me any questions you would like to farm@icelandicsheepdogs1.com

Barks

Cats

Hello Folks

We have available pointed blue eyed kittens and cats for adoption.. we have both housecats and farm/barn cats available.. please contact me at farm@icelandicsheepdogs1.com

Turkeys

We are thrilled to have Blacks, Greys, Royal's and Bronze turkeys on our Misty Morning Farm.

We loved our white turkeys from last year so much that we just had to keep "Tom the Turkey" our favorite white tom, he can't breed as he is to big to do so, but he is the sweetest big guy you can find and so he has ended up a very large, Gobble, Gobble barn pet :)

Hopefully we will baby Turkyes hatching out on our little farm next year and will be able to raise our own for the freezer.

Updates to follow