Category: Sales
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Where Is the Desert Weyr Farm Store?
If you’ve followed our farm for a while, you’ve probably noticed that we no longer maintain an in-person farm store. It used to be located on the premises of our farm. Where did it go? It’s a bit of a long story. We first closed the farm store down during COVID, and it never really… Continue reading
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Ongoing Drought and Lambs for Sale
The drought shows no signs of stopping, and irrigation continues to be troublesome. We’ve had to haul water in for many of our sheep. As such, we’ve decided to reduce our breeding flock by half to lighten the load. This is a great time to add high-quality breeders to your Welsh Mountain sheep flock! Check… Continue reading
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Irrigation Troubles and Moving the Rams
Our irrigation ditch is turning off this Saturday, August 2nd. We’ve been moving sheep to get them closer to the house. That way, we can more easily haul water to them if necessary. We do have a pond that holds water, and the adult rams have access to it in the lower pear orchard pasture.… Continue reading
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We’re Back With a New Shop! Plus Conservation
Did you know that our farm property is in a conservation easement? Our land is preserved for farming for the future. In Colorado, the land trust puts out a resource that shows where all of the conserved farms and ranches are. It also lists the goods you can buy from them. Now is the perfect… Continue reading
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Fall Ewe Sales List
Our fall sheep sales list is now available. At Desert Weyr, we breed Black Welsh Mountain sheep. Our flock is the only performance-recorded flock in the world of this breed. Black Welsh Mountain sheep are a small sheep that is ideally suited to small farmsteads. All of these sheep are trained to electric nets for… Continue reading
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New Farm Store Coming Soon
We’re moving to a new online system for our store. We hope to be back up by Tuesday, October 12th. The new site will allow you to order meat for pickup here at the farm or for delivery within Paonia. It’ll still allow for the shipping of wool and other products nationwide. We look forward… Continue reading
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COVID-19 and Our Farm
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an immediate effect on our farm. Although Colorado has opened up starting this week, we’ve made the decision to close the farm to tours and visits this year. I realize that this is a difficult time and that visiting our farm is a special treat for many, but we cannot… Continue reading
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Not Dead Yet!
OK, so posting on this blog has been low on my priority list, and it hasn’t been getting done lately. However, both the farm and the sheep are doing well, despite almost no online activity. 2020 lambing has finished successfully. We had 23 ewes bred and 43 live lambs. No stillborns and no triplets, which… Continue reading
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What Are Clusters, Anyway?
Black Welsh Mountain sheep in North America are highly inbred. Our founding population was very small, so we do not have much variation from which to select. The USDA’s National Animal Germplasm Program performed a cluster analysis study on the population. This study looked at individual pedigree information and the population as a whole, then… Continue reading
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Ram Evaluations are Done!
One of the tasks we conduct every year is evaluating all of the sheep and deciding their fate. We try to provide top-quality sheep as breeding stock, and that only happens because we cull heavily. Today, we evaluated all of the adult rams. We currently have 28 rams on the property, and we want to… Continue reading