Sheep

Sheep are a delightful animal. They eat grass, don't complain much, aren't as destructive as goats, produce wool, and taste delicious! Also, they aren't too terribly friendly, and not interested in being pets; it's hard to eat your pets.

We have mostly raised Romenys. These are a fairly easy to keep breed, not small and not huge; the wool is nice, not too coarse, not so fine it is difficult to process; the meat is tasty; and we had a great breeder, Silver Cloud Farms in Ashland. We're looking forward to finding new sheep to deal with the large amount of grass here.


Macy Brown and Little Beau Sheep, our ex-ewes
both went to good non-culinary homes

Products from the Sheep

We shear our sheep annually. Since there's so little time for me to spin, there's quite a backlog and would be happy to share/barter/sell some fleece.

We enjoy the lamb meat, and sometimes have a whole or half sheep to sell; but currently there aren't any sheep on track.

The skins of the sheep are sent off to be tanned by the Amish, at Bucks County Fur Products. The fleece is often long at time of slaughter, so the fleeces came back luxuriously long and soft. We've accumulated quite a few sheepskins, let us know if you are interested.



last updated: 1/26/10