PHOTO TOUR OF
ICELAND...

Driving the sheep  to the rattir.	Taking the sheep home to the farm.	Icelandic horses	Glacial lake.
Cast iron cross on  old grave.	Icelandic farmer & gray mouflan ewe.	Basalt formation  waterfall.	Farmers daughters
Sod roof church	Raised graves in church yard.	Sorting sheep in  the center of rattir.	Group touring  glacial lake.
Big waterfall	Rare Icelandic goats.	Icelandic buck goat	Frozen semen
Cool Volvo truck	The group at the  south AI station	Icelandic ewe poses for the camera	Swimming at the  hot spring.
The photos below  were taken by Louis & Linda Carroll and posted with their permission.
Where we went.	Group photo	Riders moving sheep to the rattir.	Sheep & horses.
Headed to the rattir.	Headed to the rattir.	Headed to the rattir.	Herd rams
Icelandic horses.	Sorting sheep.	Headed to the rattir.	Sheep in rattir.
Icelandic buck goat	Icelandic goats.	Herd ram	Four horned Icelandic sheep.
Smoked meats	Smoked boneless  legs of lamb	Lamb carcasses.	Group touring meat  factory.
Processed lamb	Geothermal power plant	Natural cave used as animal shelter	Downtown Rekyvick
Sod roofed buildings historic farm.	Glacial lake.	Rift of Tectonic plates	Glacier coming down mountain
Group in hot spring	Rex riding 23 year old Icelandic horse and moving sheep to the rattir	Children help sort sheep in the rattir.	Waterfall
Tour of the Wool Plant

Sheep feeder showing the hinged panel which is closed when the walk thru feeder is being filled with hay. The woman is in the area where the sheep would be standing. Some farms had a panel that was a tall (as tall as the feeder) metal rack arrangement with vertical bars every 6 inches or so that was hinged at the base of the trough, inside the trough, that excluded the sheep from the feeder when it was in the vertical position. The trough was filled about 1/2 full with hay and then the hinged rack arrangement was lowered onto the hay. This pinned that hay in place forcing the sheep to eat the hay with their heads in the feeder and made it harder for the sheep to pull mouthfuls out onto the floor and onto the backs of their neighbors. This farm did not have the metal racks, just the hinged wooden excluder panel that was used to exclude the sheep when the walk through feeder was being filled.

This shows the long view of the feeder. This feeder would have sheep only on one side, the side where the lady in the white pants is standing. The feeder panel in this case is small and is just excluding the sheep.

This photo is of the floor grates pulled back for cleaning. You can see the rows of double sided feeders in the background. The feeders are all walk through. There were manure pits under the floor grates where the manure and urine fell. This was made into a slurry with high pressure water hoses and then pumped out to put on the fields.