Livestock

Welsh Black Cattle - The Welsh Black cattle are a dual purpose milk and meat breed that evolved over hundreds of years to be be hardy and efficient on grass. They produce a high butterfat milk and can handle a longer lactation. Excellent genetics for grass finishing.

Rambouillet Sheep - fine-wool breed developed in France from the Spanish Merino sheep . It has become very popular in the United States and is the foundation of most of the Western range flocks. Intermediate to large in size, Rambouillet are the largest and strongest of the fine-wool sheep; the rams are horned, the ewes hornless. Besides being valued for their high-quality wool, Rambouillet are also good meat animals.

Cashmere Goats have been bred and used in Central Asia for hundred of years. The cashmere is the extremely fine, soft under down these goats grow, and it is highly prized for the making of incredibly soft, light and warm garments.
   Europeans "discovered" the fibre, notably in the so called Ring Shawl. These soft, warm shawls were so fine they could be pulled through a wedding ring, hence the name. Some reports have the Western world's demand for this fibre beginning when Napoleon brought back a ring shawl for his wife, Josephine. Regardless of when the craze began, cashmere remains the ultimate in luxury In the 1970s, scientists in Australia started breeding feral goats for cashmere production. The project was quite successful, and other countries took note. Scotland and the United States also started breeding cashmere producing goats in the 1980s, using genetics from Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, as well as other regions.
   In the US the feral Spanish meat goats were used in the breeding program, after
careful selection for fibre traits.
   There are variations in the appearance of the Cashmere herds in different countries, as they each have their own unique genetic make-up. However, they all share the ability to grow significant volumes of the very fine, crimpy, soft under down.
Farmers in Canada started our herds in the late '80s and early '90s using genetics
from Australia and the US.

Pasture Poultry - We believe that free range conditions produce the healthiest chickens and the best tasting meat. On our farm we also raise the heritage dual purpose breeds for the customer who prefers the smaller tastier chicken.