Welcome to
Rose Cottage
A Farm Specializing in Katahdin Sheep
Our Mission
Statement
To provide a source of high quality purebred breeding stock at an affordable price for the commercial lamb producer. The focus of our flock breeding and selection is on increasing overall meat production. Combining the traits of growth, bone and frame size, muscling, milk, mothering, and twinning. We offer registered rams for sale as well as registered and non-registered replacement females.
What We Offer
Registered
Males
Registered Females
Non-Registered
Replacement
Females
Why Choose Katahdin Sheep
Katahdin Sheep work very well in a variety of production situations as a low-maintenance, easy care sheep. Katahdins have generated a great deal of interest from all parts of North America. We have members from Mexico to Northern Canada and have exported to Ecuador, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, United Kingdom, Chile, and Central America. Katahdin hair sheep provide a practical option to producers who are primarily interested in raising a meat animal, with great lamb vigor, mothering ability and do not want to shear or are no longer able to find shearers.
In a recent presentation, Dr Dave Notter of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (a top Animal Science Geneticist in the USA), said – the backbone of America’s future commercial flock will be a ewe with parasite resistance, low maintenance costs, high fertility/prolificacy, good mothering ability, and one that produces either no wool at all or the highest quality wool.
CREDIT: Article from Katahdin Hair Sheep International website, “Why Choose Katahdin Sheep”, https://katahdins.org/. (click below to visit site)
