Our Finnsheep
Our farm is focused on producing excellent quality breeding stock with a true tripple purpose. Milk, wool, and meat. A true, homestead worthy sheep, for the small producer. We accomplish this by selecting for soft, crimpy fleeces with high luster in a multitude of colors, excellent mothering and prolificacy, and a tempermant that makes management simple. Our last focus is providing delicious meat for the family/homestead. This is the last thing of importance for our breeding, however still essential. In our opinion, ethical breeding requires culling. “Breed the best, eat the rest.”
Meet our friendly flock of Finnsheep
Our Ewes
Our ewes hold a special place in our hearts.
The goal in our breeding program is to select ewes who regularly produce 2-4 lambs easily on their own and are able to get them to pasture without the need for supplemental bottle feeding, are able to share their milk with the homestead, and offer medium to fine wool in their lambs.
Breeding Ewes
- Possess superb conformation and balance with a wide hip to facilitate easy birth
- Possess two well-formed and functional teats
- Mature early; capable of lambing as a yearling ewe
- Breed out of season
- Have a good conception rate (Averages: mature ewes 2.7 lambs; yearling ewes 1.9 lambs)
- Be able to raise 2 to 3 lambs with a rate of gain of .6 to 1 lb/day without assistance (assumes adequate nutrition)
- Be reproductively viable after 6 months of age
- Exhibit outstanding mothering abilities
- Possess a calm, docile temperament
Find out more about each Finnsheep ewe, including breedings, lambing, and general updates below.
A Poet
Lady Hawthorne
A Wonder
Birch
Fish
Bessie
OUr Rams
Rams are the fastest way to improve the flock and we have some amazing ones
Breeding Rams
- Masculine and very conformationally correct in appearance. Should have very well-developed hindquarters
- Should not exceed 40" nor be under 32" at the shoulder when shorn (mature animals)
- Possess excellent libido and very well-developed, sound and correctly formed breeding equipment
- Possess a superb temperament
- Be sound of limb, wind and foot
- Descend from a female line with a minimum of 2.7 lambs/litter average
Meet our Finnsheep rams below.
Barley
Chester
Edward
