Breeding and raising Shetland Sheep is my passion. Keeping our website updated falls much lower on the list. I must confess I’m a bit old school and electronic media hold little interest for me. Instead I spend my time on shepherding the flock, other farm chores, flower gardening, volunteer activities, and another passion - reading.

Most of our sheep sales happen between May and October, but we try to have a few sheep always available for sale. Even though photos on the website do not include specific sheep for sale we will be happy to send you such photos at your request.

Ewe-wise we maintain a closed flock but we have brought in rams from major breeders in Michigan, Missouri, Massachusetts, Vermont, Oregon, and also did some artificial insemination with semen from Great Britain.

In the recent past we used two white Swiftriver rams that added excellent crimp, wider horns and lots of white lambs. Looking to add more wool on poles and foreheads last year we used another white ram, DLS Rune from Ohio, and Tualatin, a black ram of Whistlestop genetics from Wee Middlebranch Farm in Ohio. Rune has a nearly perfect short tail and Tualatin has excellent wool coverage on his poll, forehead and cheeks. Both have excellent crimpy fleeces. In 2017 we also used a gulmoget, DLS Roddy, who produced an emsket ewe lamb apparently carrying the modifier gene. This year we are using two of his offspring, a gulmoget and possibly an emsket, along with Rune, Tualatin, Roy a sollid morrit, and Ragnar the caped flecket. Every breeding season we use at least one caped flecket ram to keep this marking in the flock. These caped fleckets have wonderful short tails, usually the best in the flock. All of these rams are even tempered and easy to work with.

Planning the breeding groups is always a challenge but great fun. The goal is to match each ewe with the right ram hoping to improve some trait be it tail shape, crimp, temperament, or simply bringing out a specific color, marking or pattern.