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 are raising 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 have a breeder very close by, Silver Cloud Farms in Ashland. We currently have two ewes and a ram.


Macy Brown and Little Beau Sheep, our ewes

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. We'll see how next year's lambing goes.

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 currently have one sheepskin available for $150:





last updated: 12/16/06