My name is Bill Fett. I am located in North Central Iowa by the small town of Nora Springs. I started raising sheep in 1988 for my 4-H project. I raised Suffolk sheep and won many awards at the local and state level. After graduation in 1997 I started selling club lambs. I sold the last of the Suffolks in 2014. I then tried raising many breeds of sheep including Romanov and Ile-De-France that were upgraded Crane Creek Ile-De-France genetics, which were prior to my imports, the only 100% Ile-De-France sheep in this country. I sold the Romanov sheep in 2021 and focused solely on Ile-De-France sheep as my breed of choice. On 9/14/2022 I imported 32 ewes and 5 rams from Karen Bannow (Georgella Sheep Farm) from Canada and on 9/19/2022 I imported 3 ewes and 1 ram from Keith Todd (Todd Sheep Company) from Canada. They are 100% fullblood registered stock. They are registered with the CLRC in Canada. Check out the website at www.clrc.ca to see pedigrees of all my imports. They are all scrapie codon RR and OPP free. The ewes have 12 different sires and with the 6 rams this will allow me to produce genetics that will allow you to keep coming back for new bloodlines for many years. In May of 2026 I sold all of my Crane Creek Ile-De-France upgraded genetics and I added 2 new AI sired rams to my flock from Keith Todd. This leaves me with a closed flock of all ewes and rams that were imported from Canada or the offspring of them. I lamb in February and April. I split my ewe flock into 8 family groups with colored eartags and mate 8 different rams to them. The lambs are tagged by the mothers eartag color to keep maternal lines moving forward. To keep as unrelated as possible in a closed flock, I will be using an 8 line breeding rotation as follows: Green - Orange - Purple - Yellow - Pink - White - Blue - Red.
