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Sheep Breeding Stock
Each
year we select only those lambs that meet the highest standards
for both fleece and soundness and offer them for breeding
stock. Our flock is in excellent health. All sheep are negative
for OPP and Johne's Disease and have never shown signs of
hoofrot or pinkeye. Our regular vaccinations include tetanus,
Clostridium perfringens types C and D and rabies.
All sheep are dewormed throughout the year as needed based
on FAMACHA eye score and fecal egg counts.. Our flock is
enrolled in the USDA
Voluntary Scrapie Flock Certification Program (Flock
NY49) and as of 9/14/09 we have reached Certified
Scrapie Free status.
Our sheep are excellent, healthy producers of
exceptional fiber, and are available at reasonable prices.
Besides the sheep featured below, we often have others for
sale. Please inquire and tell us your needs. Let us help
you find just what you're looking for!
Contact us regarding details of animal transfer. You are
always welcome to pick up at the farm, or we can arrange
a rendezvous at a sheep and wool festival. We regularly
attend the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival in May, the
Finger Lakes Fiber Festival in September, and the Rhinebeck
Sheep and Wool Festival in October. We can also help arrange
shipping across country via other breeders travelling to
far-off shows, if given enough lead time.
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Please contact us directly to purchase animals, ask questions, and
arrange pick-up, delivery or rendezvous at a festival or other site.
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Brady
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Brady is a registered Cotswold
(ACRA) ram from the Ewetopia flock (Crossman). DOB 2/6/2005. He
is a pretty large ram (weighed 340# last time I had him on the
scale) with very correct conformation, heavy muscling and good
feet and legs. His fleece is bright white and heavy with high
luster and good even curl down into the britch. He's sound and
a good breeder - diligent, but not rough with his ewes. I've used
him as much as I can in my flock and hope he can add some good
traits into someone else's. If I had to cite a fault, it would
be that he lacks the classic solid dark nose of the Cotswold,
having some pink showing through in speckles. Like any ram he
is also not to be trusted, especially when in with ewes, but he
IS halter broken and respects a a stick in your hand, so he can
be managed with little problem as long as you're aware. He does
NOT try to break gates, fences or come over things at you -he's
not a monster -it's just that he will challenge you if the mood
strikes him and he thinks he sees an opportunity. Besides a registered
Cotswold flock, he would also be a great ram to use on ewes from
a "meat" breed. Cotswolds crossed on that type of ewe
produce meaty, solid, fast growing lambs. Or he could add body
size and fleece length and luster to any flock of fiber sheep.
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Colored
Cotswold Ram NF 102 "Isaac"
On
Hold
Before shearing Spring '09
Before shearing
Spring '09
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 As
a lamb around Nov. '08
Shorn, Spring '09
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Colored Cotswold yearling ram. He is CBA registerable (though
I haven't gotten to it yet). DOB 3/28/08. Twin. This ram is
much more evenly dark in color than any other Cotswold I have
bred up to this point, being jet black except for minor shading
toward silver over his ribcage.. He is amazingly gentle
and quiet by nature - he wasn't handled as a lamb or anything.
He will come to you and hang his head and loves to just stand
and have you scratch his back or pick VM out of his wool.
His fleece is very heavy, silky and substantial. Texture
does change some over the britch, but not nasty - just loses
some of the curl character. I don't believe he will
mature much over 200#, so is somewhat small by Cotswold standards,
but his color and temper could be just what someone needs. He
would also work just beautifully in a mixed flock of fiber ewes
to add length and luster and color, and still be a manageable-sized
ram. His sire is Shiva, a Cotswold ram I acquired from Smoke
Ham Farm in MI, and his dam is Fancy, a homegrown ewe from this
flock. $275 here at the farm.
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Colored
Cotswold Ram #730
Sold
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Unshorn,
April '09
Shorn,
May '09 |
As
a lamb, about Nov. '08
As
a lamb, Nov. '08 |
Colored Cotswold yearling ram. DOB
4/10/08. Twin. This ram will sell without registration although
he is a pure Cotswold. I feel his fleece is more crimpy, and does
not have the degree of curl overall necessary to meet the breed
standard and earn registration. HOWEVER, his fleece is beautiful!
High luster, silky, and a lovely pale gray shading to darker gray
over back, shoulders and neck that many of my colored Cotswold
have. He also has a change in texture through the britch,
but it's not kempy or harsh, just different. He is
somewhat bigger than #676 and should mature about 200#.
He is shy and not happy about being handled so I would expect
he will not be an aggressive adult toward people even when given
ewes. His dad is also Shiva, from Smoke Ham Farm, and his
mom is Fiona, a homegrown ewe and incidentally a full sister to
the mother of the ram above, #676. This young ram would be useful
in any fiber flock looking to increase length and luster and seeking
to add some different color. $225 here at the
farm.
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Lambs
- Colored
Cotswold ram lambs, crossbred ewe and ram lambs - white and
colored - in medium and long wools. Some with moorit gene in
the background. $150 and up. Please inquire. We might have just
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Sheep - I
occasionally have wethers or ewes who are not suitable for breeding,
but who have lovely fleeces. These would be sound, healthy sheep
who are only suited for fiber production. Please inquire. $150. |
Detailed pedigrees available upon request.
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