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These beautiful, all natural sheepskins are from our North Country Cheviot & Katahdin sheep. The pelts are collected after processing then cleaned and cured by hand at our farm in Falmouth, MA before being set out for professional, natural tanning at an all women owned and operated traditional tannery: Driftless Natural Tannery in New Glarus, WI. https://www.driftlesstraditionaltannery.com The skins are returned to us for a few finishing touches before being offered to you!

Our lambs are not sheared pre-processing which makes these pelts super plush with very high pile.* Each skin in unique but they average about 45”L and 24”W with between 4-6” of pile (fluff)! (*Our Katahdin sheep pelts are similar to cow hide pelts and do not have “pile” - but they do have beautiful color and spots.)

These skins can be shipped anywhere in the US or are available for local pick-up in Falmouth. Just select your desired option at checkout. MA sales tax included in price.

These skins make beautiful, natural, hypoallergenic additions to any home.

“THE BIRDS” SERIES

This season we wanted to highlight all the special birds that make our farm their home, either seasonally or year round.

Scroll down for descriptions and photos of all the skins. Once you’ve found a favorite simply select it from the dropdown menu, add to cart and proceed to checkout.

BARN OWL - 40”L X 22”W $280.00 - SOLD

The barn owl is the most widely distributed species of owl in the world and one of the most widespread of all species of birds, being found almost everywhere except for the polar and desert regions, Asia north of the Himalayas, most of Indonesia, and some Pacific Islands. We often hear owls after sunset in the woods surrounding the North Pasture.

TOWHEE - 46”L X 26”W $290.00 - SOLD

The eastern towhee is a large New World sparrow. The taxonomy of the towhees has been under debate in recent decades, and formerly this bird and the spotted towhee were considered a single species, the rufous-sided towhee. Their breeding habitat is brushy areas across eastern North America.

SPARROW - 46”L x 24”W $250.00 - SOLD

The house sparrow is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world. It is a small bird that has a typical length of 16 cm and a mass of 24–39.5 g. Females and young birds are coloured pale brown and grey, and males have brighter black, white, and brown markings.

MOCKINGBIRD - 45”L x 24”W $260.00 - SOLD

The northern mockingbird is a mockingbird commonly found in North America. This bird is mainly a permanent resident, but northern birds may move south during harsh weather.

AMERICAN KESTREL* - 46”L x 20”W $330.00 - SOLD

The American kestrel, also called the sparrow hawk, is the smallest and most common falcon in North America. It has a roughly two-to-one range in size over subspecies and sex, varying in size from about the weight of a blue jay to a mourning dove. A nesting box for the American Kestrel can be found in the east side of the field below the main barn.

HORNED OWL - 50”L x 26”W $310.00 - SOLD

The great horned owl, also known as the tiger owl, or the hoot owl, is a large owl native to the Americas. It is an extremely adaptable bird with a vast range and is the most widely distributed true owl in the Americas. We often hear owls after sunset in the woods surrounding the North Pasture.

PHOEBE - 45”L x 21”W $280.00 - SOLD

The eastern phoebe is a small passerine bird. The genus name Sayornis is constructed from the specific part of Charles Lucien Bonaparte's name for Say's phoebe, Muscicapa saya, and Ancient Greek ornis, "bird". The Phoebe is frequently seen around our main barn sitting on the fence posts or in the windows of the old red barn.

BARN SWALLOW - 50”L x 25”W $270.00 - SOLD

The barn swallow is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. It appears to have the largest natural distribution of any of the world's passerines, ranging over 251 million square kilometres globally. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts and a long, deeply forked tail. These birds are frequently spotted around the run-in shed in the main pasture and are very active during mowing gobbling up insects tossed up by the mower.

COWBIRD - 38”L x 26”W $260.00 - SOLD

Frequently seen perched on the backs of our sheep gobbling up bugs disturbed by their grazing, Cowbirds are birds belonging to the genus Molothrus in the family Icteridae. They are of New World origin, and are obligate brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other species. The genus was introduced by English naturalist William John Swainson in 1832 with the brown-headed cowbird as the type species.

CAROLINA WREN - 48”L x 24”W $280.00 - SOLD

The Carolina wren is a common species of wren that is a resident in the eastern half of the United States of America, the extreme south of Ontario, Canada, and the extreme northeast of Mexico.

BLUEBIRD - 48”L x 23”W $270.00 - SOLD

The bluebirds are a North American group of medium-sized, mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the order of Passerines in the genus Sialia of the thrush family (Turdidae). Bluebirds are one of the few thrush genera in the Americas.

FLY CATCHER - 48”L x 25”W $280.00 - SOLD

The great crested flycatcher is a large insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family. It is the most widespread member of the genus Myiarchus in North America, and is found over most of the eastern and mid-western portions of the continent. It dwells mostly in the treetops and rarely is found on the ground.

GOLDFINCH - 40”L x 22”W $270.00 - SOLD

The American goldfinch is a small North American bird in the finch family. It is migratory, ranging from mid-Alberta to North Carolina during the breeding season, and from just south of the Canada–United States border to Mexico during the winter.

WOODCOCK* - 43”L x 21”W $290.00 - SOLD

The northern bobwhite, also known as the Virginia quail or bobwhite quail, is a ground-dwelling bird native to Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Cuba, with introduced populations elsewhere in the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. It is a member of the group of species known as New World quail.

REDTAIL* - 46”L x 27”W $330.00 - SOLD

The red-tailed hawk is a bird of prey that breeds throughout most of North America, from the interior of Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies. It is one of the most common members within the genus of Buteo in North America or worldwide.

SCREECH OWL* - 45”L x 26”W $280.00 - SOLD

Screech owls are typical owls belonging to the genus Megascops with 23 living species. For most of the 20th century, this genus was merged with the Old World scops owls in Otus, but nowadays it is again considered separately based on a range of behavioral, biogeographical, morphological, and DNA sequence data.

SHARPSHINNED* - 44”L x 26”W $290.00

The sharp-shinned hawk, commonly known as a sharpie, is a small hawk, with males being the smallest hawks in the United States and Canada, but with the species averaging larger than some Neotropical species, such as the tiny hawk.

DOWNY - 48”L x 30”W $290.00 - SOLD

The downy woodpecker is a species of woodpecker, the smallest in North America. Length ranges from 14 to 18 cm. Downy woodpeckers primarily live in forested areas throughout the United States and Canada, with the exception of deserts in the southwest and the northern tundra.

FLICKER - 44”L x 26”W $290.00 - SOLD

Colaptes is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. The 14 species are found across the Americas. Colaptes woodpeckers typically have a brown or green back and wings with black barring, and a beige to yellowish underside, with black spotting or barring. There are usually colorful markings on the head.

PINE WARBLER - 54”L x 27”W $270.00 - SOLD

Pine Warblers are yellowish birds with olive backs, whitish bellies, and two prominent white wingbars on gray wings.

*PELTS MARKED WITH AN ASTERISK ARE KATAHDIN HAIR-SHEEP HIDES AND ARE SIMILAR IN PILE AND TEXTURE TO A COW HIDE

Thanks to Wikipedia for the bird information.