Welcome to Foxtail Farm. It all started with 4H and a friend. Sheep production began in 2008 with two katahdins from Michael Seipel of Hickory Hollow Farm. "These are not pets" we told the kids. A lesson they quickly learned when offspring wound up in the freezer. The offspring were shown at the county fair and the ewes bred to a borrowed ram for the next year. Two more ewes were purchased from Michael and bred to Sam the ram, our first ram from Fahrmeier farms served for two years. The flock slowly grew by keeping the ewes and rotating in another high quality ram. The third from David Copeland of Birch Hollow Farm. We chose genetic sources that were proven to gain on grass and have parasite resistence. We are growing to are target number of 20 ewes for our ten acres of pasture. This is a conservative number for fair quality pasture. As we improve the pastures, we can consider moving up to 30 ewes.

About the Farm. We are situated in Callaway county just off of Hwy 54 between Fulton and Jefferson City. Our 17 acres consists of 10 acres of pasture, 5 of woods, 1 of pond and the rest yard. The business model is simple. Raise quality Katahdin sheep that perform on grass. It is important to do this at a reasonable price. The pedigree will contain many well known breeders stock but is not the focal point. This allows us to catch the genetic traits that make them a popular source and also capture the diversity of other genetic sources for a diverse gene pool.

Gaining on grass is critical. We only supplement with corn/protein ration during late pregnancy and while nursing. This is critical to consider if you are looking for grass fed breading stock or lean grass fed lambs for meat production. We sell breading stock rams and ewes along with slaughter lambs. We prefer selling direct to consumers wanting a whole lamb for the freezer.