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The toughest sheep you’ll find anywhere in the US.

Green Pastures Farm St. Croix-sired ewe lambs are raised solely on forage. There is no hoof trimming, no grain, no weaning, no shots or worming and minimal hay. These sheep are broke to hot wire and being moved every 2 days. They are extremely aggressive foragers towards brush, weeds and anything with a thorn on it. They are our primary tool for controlling woody sprouts in the numerous new silvopasture areas that we are developing across the farms. Our sheep even prefer to forage for their food through heavy snow.

 

We have never wormed our St. Croix sired sheep since we started with them 16 years ago. To create a parasite resistant herd, only ewes that demonstrated resistance have been allowed to stay on the farm. This culling process was extremely tough on our initial flock. Once all parasite resistant ewes and rams were identified, we moved forward building our flock.

Jan is the marketing director for all our St. Croix parasite resistant seedstock.

judy-marchj@missouri.edu 

St. Croix Rams 

St Croix Ewes 

Video of spring grass move, flock shedding hair coat.

Video below of Greg Judy explaining the benefits of sheep for newly developed silvopasture. Greg explains the practices used to train the flock to respect one single hot wire with strip grazing.

Grass finished Lamb For Sale

Lambs raised at Green Pastures Farm are 100% forage finished. Lambs are naturally weaned by their mother on pasture. They are moved every two days across our various farms behind electric polybraid. They get a high selection of numerous plants ranging from tree leaves, weeds, clovers, various grasses, weeds, vines and anything with a thorn on it. Due to their small mouth they are extremely efficient at removing leaves that are inaccessible to our cattle. Grass finished lambs are sold at 100-120 lbs live weight, hanging weight is 50-60 lbs. Email for pricing.