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RONAN COUNTRY FIBERS
Farm Visits Welcome
    Our 100 acre farm is located in southwest Oregon near the small town of Selma.  Selma is a small rural community best known as the home town of Kristi Lee Cook from American Idol.   We have a Post Office, store, bar, church and gas station.  What more does a person need?
    Our land has been used for farming since before 1890 when the barn was built.   The area was also a logging community set in the Siskiyou mountain range.  While we are surrounded by forest, our ranch is primarily a valley of pasture land.   Crooks Creek and Deer Creek run year round dividing our pastures and are lined with trees, berries and lots of goat/sheep friendly brush.
     Our show quality Angora Goats & Gotland sheep enjoy the shade from our heritage oak trees and lounge in a relatively mild climate. Our Angora goat herd varies between 100-150 Angora goats and 60+sheep.
    We started our Gotland Sheep project in 2005 and as of 2009 still have the largest Gotland sheep ranch in North America as recorded by the Gotland Sheep Breeders Association of North America.   
     We also have several livestock guardian dogs, various breeds of chickens and currently 4 house cats that were suppose to be barn cats.
     Our white and colored Angora goats and Gotland sheep produce beautiful, silky fiber in a rainbow of natural colors. We also occasionally sell dyed mohair to extend the raindow of colors available.  We still have a few Shetland sheep for their luxurious fleeces but no longer breed Shetlands.
    We are enrolled in the Voluntary Scrapies Program which requires an annual USDA inspection of all livestock and we take the regulations very seriously.  In addition to the annual inspection, we keep detailed records of births, deaths, purchases and sales of all animals.  All breedings are carefully planned.
    We are registered breeders with:
      Colored Angora Goat Breeders Association - CAGBA
      American Angora Goat Breeders Association - AAGBA
      The Gotland Sheep Breeders Association of North America - GSBANA
Jeff and Carol are both Certified Registry Inspectors for CAGBA.
Jeff is the NorthWest Regional Director for CAGBA.
Carol is the newsletter editor for CAGBA.
Carol is the past President and current Secretary/Treasurer for GSBANA. 
    We believe in supporting the associations which work with members to promote these beautiful animals and their fiber.
    We enjoy having visitors to our farm. The tour includes the animal facilities and our fiber processing studio with lots of bags of nice quality mohair and wool.  The workshops are usually of interest to the mechanically inclined where we are always working on perfecting feeders or the like for Angora goats (suggestions are encouraged).
        We have overnight visitor facilities available for people coming from out of town to purchase or evaluate animals. We attend a number of shows during the year and can sometimes help deliver animals to or from the shows. 
    Please enjoy your visit to our website.   Let us know if you have any questions or suggestions for improving the information provided here.
Thanks for visiting us!
Carol & Jeff
Copyright © 2003-08 Ronan Country Fibers. All rights reserved.
4001 Deer Creek Road     Selma, Oregon  97538 
541-597-4600
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Selecting Mohair
Washing Mohair
About Mohair
Dyeing Instructions
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Shetland Sheep
Gotland Sheep
Livestock Guardians
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Angora Goats
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FOR SALE
Farm Pictures
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Show Results
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Contact Us
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Driving Map
2009 kids are growing fast!
New genetics from 3 unrelated purebred Gotland rams and 100% Gotland lamb imports planned from New Zealand in 2009!
Contact us for semen for sale.
Join the original Gotland sheep club in the USA; The Gotland Sheep Breeders
 Association of North America.
New members are welcomed and participation encouraged.
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www.gsbana.org
RARE Gotland sheep in the USA!
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Find a breeder near you!
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Spinning
Mohair
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11/21/09
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Have a great holiday season!
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Goat Over Water
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ABOUT US.........
31 ewes from 7 farms were artificial inseminated with New Zealand Gotland semen at our farm on 10/26/09; the first ever Gotland semen imported from NZ. This is expected to greatly improve the gene pool and fiber quality of the Gotland sheep in the USA. See some pics here...
Glen Erickson was a superb AI technician - http://www.nfgen.com/artifcial-insemination/sheep---ai-protocol.php