They are good for pasture almost all year round. Unfortunately in my North Central Iowa climate we have a short grazing season. However my mature ewes are still grazing cornstalks.

Ile-De-France sheep are what I imported from Canada.

I have allowed my ewe lambs to get bred for over 35 years and have had good luck with them lambing while making more money. I do use coefficients with CLRC but I must maintain some order of breeding to keep them as unrelated as possible when there is no other breeder in the USA to get new genetics from. My fear is if they close the Canadian border again and then I am at a dead end for unrelated genetics. This is why I gathered up so many different lines of ewes and rams and chose to close my flock and run an 8 line breeding rotation. A perk is I no longer have to worry about dragging in any diseases.

@ can you do AIing imported semen from Europe or Canada?

@@CityandCountrySouthdowns I am not sure on Europe but as of now I could from Canada but my lines include most of the good genetics from Canada so it would be best from another country. The best for me would be RCH Ile-De-France from South Africa but I know the USA and Canada can’t import any semen from there.🙁

@ I know Gerrit Brinkmann brought in semen from France. He’d have new rams for import for you

@@CityandCountrySouthdowns That isn’t true because I talked to Gerrit and he brought in the semen of a son that Karen Bannow brought in his sire’s semen without knowing it. She also brought in semen from 3 more sires from over there. I own offspring from all those lines, Gerrit Brinkmann lines and some ET’s from the original Medicine Ridge owners from about 20 years ago. I imported ewes from 12 different sires and imported 6 unrelated sires. I brought in as much as I could to make sure I was never at a dead end. I know it probably looks silly from the outside looking in but wanted to make sure I could keep raising them for years no matter what happens. Daniel Goodsman is also importing from France but he wants to stretch them and I am not willing to do that. Keith Todd got new rams from Gerrit last year but told me they are nothing special so he brought in semen from France and has pregnant ewes with it now. I have not talked to him about it but I am afraid he is going to try to use genetics like Daniel to stretch them. The 4 head I got from him were already stretched more than anything that I bought from Karen. I feel that I got mine from the right flock for what type of sheep that I want to be raising.

Greetings to you as well!

Thanks for your interest. I am glad that you called me as the import process is way to lengthy for me to type it all in the comments.

No thank you. I do not need any such services.

Thank you! I really like that about them as well.

I don’t do the tail length the same as Karen Bannow did on them. Mine are what you see on all my replacement ewe lambs.

GEORGELLA 930K is his number and his sire is GEORGELLA 51H and dam is GEORGELLA 28B. You can look him up on the CLRC for his full pedigree at www.clrc.ca/search-registry/member-details/5435252

@Ile-De-FranceSheepFarm awesome, he is really nice looking. We own Georgella 28B and she has produced two nice ram for us but that may be all as i dont think she caught this year being almost 11. One son of hers was one our herd sires last year out of Georgella 340H. And we have daughters and one son of 51H. The 51H son we have is also compact like your ram (Georgella 7K) We are Cool Ally Livestock. Love your videos. I haven't taken to KZbin yet, only have Facebook and insta for now haha.

@@alyssaboles5417 I am so glad my rams dam has such good longevity. The ewes I am breeding him to are 61G daughters. They seem prolific and make a good cross. My 3 orange line ewes are also sired by 51H but they do not seem to be as prolific. I knew right away when I saw your first message that it was you. I am still thankful that you had that phone conversation with me last winter. I am thrilled that you love my videos. I wasn’t sure how well they would be viewed when I started making them in May but I was just trying to get breed awareness here in the United States. Thanks for watching them.

Thank you, I really like them too.

I would be happy to discuss prices with you and you can find my contact information on my website @ billfettssheepfarm.weebly.com

Thank you!

On 8/6/24 he weighed 168#

Southwest of Rapid City, South Dakota in the Black Hills.

@Ile-De-FranceSheepFarm looks like you are seeing lots of wild life! Have a nice holiday

@@EwetopiaFarms Thank you!

Thank you! Mostly 5 months old but a couple are 4 months old.

​@@Ile-De-FranceSheepFarmWhat is the feeding plan for your de-france lambs im interested

@@nikograbovac8442 They just got pulled away from the rams 3 days ago and are getting a big bale of 2 year old grass hay to eat on and a 1/2 pound of whole corn each morning. I wouldn’t give them corn if the hay wasn’t so old. I will continue that until March 1st when I will take the corn away and feed them alfalfa hay for the last 6 weeks of gestation. Alfalfa and corn is too rich for lambs growing inside of them and makes the lambs get too big. This breed converts feed very well.

Thank you! Yes, with the CLRC in Canada and you can link directly to them from my billfettssheepfarm.weebly.com website. Amy and I started a USA registry last year with Associated Registry in Kansas. americanile-de-francesheep.weebly.com/ is the website for the AIDFSA new registry and shows us 8 breeders. There was no registry in the USA besides Stephanie because she brought in the embryo’s in the 1990’s but never sold a ewe to anyone. Breeders like Hasbargen had only percentage sheep and not purebreds. He started with Suffolk, Dorset and Finn ewes and then bought IDF x Dorset rams from Janet. He then added 2 IDF upgraded to purebred rams from Gordon. He then used semen from Canada. Some of his sheep should be getting close to purebreds but many are not even close and are just percentage animals.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you very much! I am really happy that I went through so much frustrations with the governments to get them here.

Thank you! Mine brought a premium. Most were $2.20-$2.60 but out East they are much higher than we see here in Iowa.

Thank you! I am glad you like them!