We produce yarns and are known for our specialty blends of Alpaca and Romney.
We raise registered Romney, Valais Blacknose and registered Scottish blackface. Fleeces available.
2025 Adopt a Lamb program: The 2024 Adopt a Lamb program was so successful, we’re doing it again for 2025.
“Adopt a lamb program” where we present ( deposit only) the fibre of our lambs when it becomes available at shearing time. With the costs so high this year in just maintaining our animals, we felt we needed to do something different just to survive. This year our main focus will be on our Valais blacknose sheep. We have bred the Valais Rams to our very best registered Romney ewes. The resulting fibre from this cross has been exceptional and we feel one of a kind fibre. A $10 deposit will hold the fleece for you come shearing time. We hope to shear the lambs in June. The lambs should have a 4 inch staple to their fleece. This we feel is an incredible opportunity for people to experiment with the Valais fibre. We have no idea as of yet how many lbs each fleece will be but the animals are larger than normal for sheep. Warch our Facebook posts on Vanc. Island Sheep Network. We will feature lambs and their stories. We hope that by developing a connection to these lambs they will give more meaning to the garments that are made. We do have a large collection of handspun yarns available as well.
The Sheep Shed / Gun Barrel Canyon Farms
Deb Pawlyshyn
https://www.facebook.com/gunbarrelboys/
pawlymn@shaw.ca
last updated: February 2025