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How to Join
Dues are $10 per calendar year. Membership includes listing your farm, your website, and photos on this website; sharing of knowledge, experience, and support between members; and our Links to other websites. Membership is open to everyone.
Please send to:
Frederick County Sheep Breeders Association
Ellen Nicodemus, Treasurer
Pike’s View Farm
8016 Woodsboro Pike
Walkersville, MD 21793
phone: 301-898-5051
e-mail: faithnics@yahoo.com
Membership Directory is published every two years, and is an additional $10.00. The next publication will be the 2010-2011 Members Directory. At least 2,000 copies are printed.
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Membership Benefits
- networking and resource of fellow shepherds in the area.
- each member's farm is listed on the website - with a photo section for each farm.
- listing of members products, services, and farm fresh, custom processed lamb.
- many farms also offer: eggs, chickens, ducks, turkeys, goats, rabbits, beef, etc.
- source of members various wool products: raw fleece, roving, dyed and natural handspun yarn.
- members have specialty products: custom handknits, wool blankets.
- provides 4-H'ers with sources of farms for their 4-H project lambs.
- provides sources of ram breeding stock and ram leasing.
- provides sources of ewe breeding stock - both open and bred ewes.
- some members provide ewe breeding services.
- link to many other resources and publications - the "Links" page is extensive.
- members are a resource to each other - help each other with problems, share knowledge and experience, and learn from each other.
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