© 2006 - 2010 Cascade Farmstead Sheep Association

BREED DESCRIPTION:

This is a new breed, which means that all the data and exciting color varieties are not yet known.  Thus far the majority of Cascade Farmstead sheep tend to be some shade of brown or blonde in a mouflon pattern, but black, blonde and white in mouflon, badgerface or spotting patterns are also turning up.

Adult rams are usually horned, but can also be scurred.  Adult ewes can be horned, polled or scurred.

Adult rams and ewes roo off (shed) their fleece in the spring or early summer.  The fleece varies from fine to coarse and the length from 3 to 6 inches. Rooed fleece allows for a softer, non-itchy yarn due to the fact that it has no cut ends.

Lambs arrive in the spring, weighing between 5 and 8 lbs at birth and gain weight rapidly on mother's milk. CFS lambs reach a carcass weight of 20 to 25 lbs by 6 to 8 months of age, allowing the farmer to butcher in autumn rather than spend the money and effort to feed culls and meat lambs over the winter.

ELIGIBILITY: 

• Lambs born to Cascade Farmstead Sheep PREVIOUSLY REGISTERED with this registry (Cascade Farmstead Sheep Association, also known as CFSA) are eligible for regisitration.
  

• Sheep bred from other breeds than Cascade Farmstead Sheep are NOT eligible for registry with CFSA, and may not be called Cascade Farmstead sheep.  The sole exception to this requirement has been from the founder and Registrar of Cascade Farmstead sheep, in the quest to produce premium breeding stock from parent breeds that do not have suspect lineage or traits that would be detrimental to the Cascade Farmstead breed.
  

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