Wild 'n' Woolly Farm

Our 200-acre farm is nestled in eastern West Virginia. We raise Coopworth / Longwool Sheep and Scottish Highland Cattle. Our animals are almost wholly pasture-fed, and we use no antibiotics and no unnecessary vaccines. We also treat our animals with Essential Oil Therapies. 

Wild 'n' Woolly has had sheep since 1983, Coopworths since 1984.  Our Coopworths are descended from registered Pine Park and Alford Park New Zealand Coopworth Sheep and subsequent NZ AI Sires (imported semen).  4 of our first ewes were CSSNZ registered and originally imported from New Zealand by Jonathan May of Timberville, Virginia.  We have, in the past decade, bred our ewes to English Leicester Longwool rams, direct and descended from Tasmanian imported and AI rams, which we leased from the Williamsburg Foundation to enhance wool quality:  increase luster, staple length, and 'whiteness'.

Our sheep are narrow polled, deep & 'not-so-broad' chested, and long-bodied. They are heavy muscled and stout.  The ewes weigh 140-160 lbs.; and the rams 200-250 lbs.  The rams look like "TANKS".  All have black noses, hooves, and "eye liner."  (Black hooves are more resistant to scald and footrot and grow slower.) 

Wild 'n' Woolly sheep have clean faces and legs with little or no wool.  Clean faces are directly proportional to the "Number of Lambs Born". Little or no leg wool makes shearing easier, and for the hand spinner & craft market, means less wool to skirt!  Our sheep shear 8-18 lbs. wool annually a 37 micron average fleece of exceptional softness, luster, extreme whiteness 6-10 inches in length.

There are many reasons for raising sheep of "Coopworth" genetics and registry performance:

• Higher Lambing Percentage
• Easy Lambing
  
• Excellent Mothering
• Strong, Get-Up'n'Go Lambs
• Easily Mustered and Worked
• Exceptional Wool

WOOL-TO-DYE-FOR from Wild 'n' Woolly Sheep    

• 35-39 micron
• 8-18 lb fleeces
• extremely lustrous wool
• exceptionally white
• long, 6-10 inch staple length
• soft and even staple
• well-defined crimp
• quality belly and leg wool
• higher 70-80% yield
  

   

Some noted characteristics of Scottish Highlands:

• Easy Calving
• Excellent Mothering
• Strong, Get-Up'n'Go Calves
• Strong Foragers
• Easily Handled!
• Low Fat, No Cholesterol Beef