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WHY CASCADE FARMSTEAD SHEEP?

Cascade Farmstead sheep are an easy care, productive breed produced by frugal farmers to meet specific needs of small size with a meaty carcass and no shearing. 

NATURAL TRAITS MAKE RAISING SHEEP EASY ON THE FARMER!

  • These beautiful sheep naturally shed their wool; they do NOT require shearing or crutching.  They produce spinning quality fleeces, ranging from fine to coarse, in a variety of colors and patterns.

  • They are born with naturally short tails, and do NOT require tail docking (cutting off the tail). 

  • They are fully capable of giving birth without assistance, and do NOT require extra attention from you during lambing season.  We sleep through the night during lambing season and wake up to exciting new additions to our flock.

  • They are resistant to foot rot and do well in wet areas such as the Pacific Northwest. 

  • They are small enough to be easy to handle, yet large enough to provide an excellent meat carcass.

  • Efficient! Lambs slated to become food for your table are large enough to be butchered in the autumn, without the effort and expense of overwintering culls. 

  • This breed is highly productive on pasture and hay alone; all the sheep you see here have never received grain.

  • We have been selecting for overall good health, good shedding ability, reliable twinning ability, good lamb growth for early butchering, meaty body, and good horn width that will not endanger the animal. Fleece is not part of our selection; it's merely an added bonus!

If you are looking for low maintenance livestock with beauty, character and efficiency, these sheep may be for you!

We sold our first starter flock of Cascade Farmstead sheep in 2008, 26 more Cascades in 2009, another flock in 2010, and 2 more flocks are reserved for 2011.  Call us to get on our 2012 waiting list for registered breeding stock of both adults and lambs.
Cascade Farmstead rams; Avens and Gentian were utilized for breeding in 2007. April 2008
Two yearling Cascade Farmstead rams; Greener Pastures Avens and Greener Pastures Gentian. They both sired some spectular lambs!
Greener Pastures Honeysuckle's daughter looks just like her dam did at birth! April 2008
Greener Pastures Cornflower with her first lamb; Greener Pastures Isolde.  April 2008
Greener Pastures Isolde at 3 months of age, with her yearling dam. July 2008
Greener Pastures Rosemary. July 2008
Above left: Greener Pastures Belladonna is sleek, fit and rooed off cleanly. Bella produced the first lamb of the 2008 season on our farm!   July 2008

Right: These lambs grow fast! Greener Pastures Indigo at 4 months of age in August 2008. Nice wide horns and lovely fleece; we used him as one of our 9 breeding sires in the autumn of 2008.

Below:  Greener Pastures Rosemary at 2 1/2 months of age.  July 2008
Above and below:  Cascade Farmstead ewes and their first lambs.  The lovely ewe (above left) was sold in 2008.  You can see the polled ewe in center has begun to roo her fleece.  April 2008
Rapid growth as well as amazing fleece color transformations...

Above:  Greener Pastures Isolde shown with her dam shortly after birth, and with her dam 
2 1/2 months later.

Below:  Greener Pastures Iliad with her dam shortly after birth, and with her dam 2 1/2
months later.
Greener Pastures Marigold and Lavender in foreground. A Beta Bloodline ewe is in the background. July 2008
Greener Pastures Indigo, a handsome Cascade Farmstead ram lamb at just 4 months of age. Indigo was one of 9 flock sires we utilized in the autumn of 2008.
Our first 2009 lambs; 3-day-old Azalea and Alyssum race toward me. They will likely be gray like their half-sisters shown above. April 13, 2009
Newborn Jester with his dam, Primrose. May 2009
Below left: 
3-day-old lambs, Azalea and Alyssum, half sisters to Lavender and Marigold shown above.


Below below left: 
Primrose with her newborn (still wet) son Jester.


Below: 
Yearling ram Avens just being his studly self.
Above:  Lavender and Marigold at 3 months of age. Click here to view very cool pictures of Lavender before and after her first lamb's birth, as well as before and after photos of her fleece being shed.
ONE Starter Flock available in 2011!!!  Call now to be considered for this flock of experienced adult Cascade Farmstead Ewes and Rams!