V\u00e9larnar m\u00e6ttu \u00e1 hla\u00f0i\u00f0 alla lei\u00f0 fr\u00e1 Kanada You see; the Icelandic goat was nearly extinct around the 1960\u2019s. No one was really interested<\/strong> in farming with them and most people looked at them as pets and of no use but making problems \u2013 crossing every fence and eating every flower and tree. Then J\u00f3hanna Bergmann \u00deorvaldsd\u00f3ttir in H\u00e1afell went into mission to save the Icelandic goat. She earned a lot of attention doing so, and people joined her, getting goats of their own and formed an organisation around them. Since then people are starting again to use what the goat provides, like the milk and the fibre. And today we have over 1.500 goats in Iceland. They are an endangered specie and need to be observed and cared for to keep their number.<\/strong><\/p>\n Vi\u00f0 fengum uppl\u00fdsingar um geitab\u00faskap me\u00f0 \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 tala vi\u00f0 J\u00f3h\u00f6nnu og fleiri geitab\u00e6ndur og me\u00f0 \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 sko\u00f0a vandlega \u00fea\u00f0 hr\u00e1efni sem barst til okkar \u00ed spunaverksmi\u00f0juna.<\/strong> Vi\u00f0 fengum okkur ki\u00f0linga!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n Hausti\u00f0 2021 komu 4 hu\u00f0nur og 1 hafur heim til okkar og geitab\u00faskapur okkar h\u00f3fst.\nVi\u00f0 f\u00f3rum inn \u00ed veturinn og l\u00e6r\u00f0um f\u00f3\u00f0run og me\u00f0h\u00f6ndlun af b\u00f3kum og me\u00f0 \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 spjalla vi\u00f0 reyndari geitab\u00e6ndur. \n\u00dev\u00ed mi\u00f0ur slasa\u00f0ist ein og drapst af mei\u00f0slunum, en hinar voru hraustar og spr\u00e6kar og mj\u00f6g gaman a\u00f0 vinna me\u00f0 \u00fe\u00e6r.<\/strong>\u00c9g kenndi \u00feeim a\u00f0 teymast um h\u00fasi\u00f0 og jafnvel \u00fati og \u00fe\u00e6r eru flj\u00f3tar a\u00f0 l\u00e6ra.<\/strong><\/p>\n N\u00fa erum vi\u00f0 b\u00fain a\u00f0 upplifa allra fyrstu f\u00e6\u00f0ingu ki\u00f0lings \u00e1 okkar b\u00fai og okkur \u00feykir \u00fea\u00f0 b\u00fdsna merkilegt. Bur\u00f0urinn t\u00f3kst vel, hu\u00f0nu og ki\u00f0lingi heilsast vel og litli hafurinn er farinn a\u00f0 hoppa og skoppa. \u00dea\u00f0 sem er enn betra er a\u00f0 hu\u00f0nan hefur g\u00f3\u00f0a m\u00f3\u00f0ureiginleika, mj\u00f3lkar vel og hugsar vel um n\u00fdf\u00e6ddan soninn. \u00dea\u00f0 er mikill kostur. \n\u00c9g get varla be\u00f0i\u00f0 eftir a\u00f0 hinar tv\u00e6r eignist s\u00edn ki\u00f0.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Vi\u00f0 h\u00f6fum l\u00e6rt alveg helling. <\/strong> \u00d6ll\u00a0<\/strong>animals ALL have names. All my 150 sheep, All my 30 cows, All my 16 hens\u2026 and of course the goats also have names,- when they are adult and to be kept on at the farm. This mama-goat\u2019s name is Hrefna and since this is the very first goat to be born here, his name has to be Prince; Prins in Icelandic.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are goat farmers When we started thinking about putting up a mini mill in Iceland, back in 2016, we were contacted by goat farmers and asked if we would also consider to process the fibre from goats into yarn. We learned from them, that they had sent their fibre to similar mill in Europe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,56,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-dyrin-okkar","category-our-animals"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/278176481_538310197647670_438003095911048691_n-300x225.jpg\")
\u00a0from Canada to train us with the process and we learned a lot and practised even more. After few months another teacher came from Canada and taught us more. Then we learned how to work with the fibre from the Icelandic goats and found out that it\u2019s fibre is Cashmere,- which technically is the gold of fibres. The yarn we made was of something else than we had ever experienced,- then I am talking about yarn in general, not what we had been doing just for few months time. But even though I am brought up on a farm and so is my husband, we had neither of us ever farmed with goats and we knew so very little about them. When people started asking us questions about how to get the best fibre from them, our eyes turned gloomy and we just looked up to the sky. And since we are always eager to do as well as we can and not jump to conclusions without exactly knowing how or why something is like it is, we started exploring and looking for information. First on the internet and then with books. None of them in Icelandic.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nVi\u00f0 s\u00e1um mj\u00f6g flj\u00f3tt a\u00f0 ef vi\u00f0 \u00e6tlu\u00f0um a\u00f0 vita hvernig \u00e6tti a\u00f0 me\u00f0h\u00f6ndla geitur, yr\u00f0um vi\u00f0 a\u00f0 pr\u00f3fa \u00fea\u00f0 sj\u00e1lf. Svo \u00fei\u00f0 sj\u00e1i\u00f0 hvert \u00feetta er a\u00f0 lei\u00f0a okkur...<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/276076008_1032676230960828_1535427075768784531_n-225x300.jpg\")
<\/strong>En eigum enn margt \u00f3l\u00e6rt. \u00cd framt\u00ed\u00f0inni v\u00e6ri til d\u00e6mis mj\u00f6g gaman ef \u00e9g g\u00e6ti b\u00fai\u00f0 til ost \u00far eigin geitamj\u00f3lk. \nEn n\u00fana f\u00e6r \u00feessi litli kall alla mj\u00f3lk sem mamma hans b\u00fdr til.<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n