West Fork Farm

West Fork Farm Registered Katahdin sheep, Honey Bees!, Registered AQHA horses, couple Scottish Highland cows, livestock guarding dogs and anything else my wife allows!

We are very excited to be a breeder of Registered Katahdin Hair Sheep. We entered the Katahdin business after our search for just a couple sheep to produce our own lamb chops! Who knew couple years later our search would lead us to want to promote and strive to become a breeder for Katahdins. These sheep are as close to maintenance free as any animal I have ever been around. Our goal is to produc

e meat sheep that will perform and add lbs to a commercial flock with low inputs. The commercial meat flock is what drives our whole existence as an industry. Without people buying lamb we have no industry. We understand that and that is what drives us to produce an animal that does what it is supposed to do.

04/01/2025
Finally oh yeah of little faith.
03/13/2025

Finally oh yeah of little faith.

Finally! I had about gave up..
03/13/2025

Finally! I had about gave up..

03/10/2025

I notice I don’t take much pics while playing bee whisperer so today I took a couple videos of the girls. All were strong and doing well. Lots of capped brood and eggs/larvae. The dead ones were probably old winter bees that were on the sugar box at the end of video that fell down when I lifted it up. The other bees will clean them out of the box.

02/02/2025

well, I had tried some cheap homemade pollen feeders last year and they worked fine until they didn't. Humidity and moisture doesn't work well with pollen substitute. So after recommendation from a beek friend (that's short for beekeeper for you non beeks), I purchased a good one. I am short on patience sometimes and took it out of the box couple of nights ago and place almost in front of my basement door and filled it up to see how much it held and to see if water stayed out since it was raining for couple days.... well all was good until this morning when it almost hit 70 degrees! The bees approve and looks like they are enjoying the snack.... I hope I can keep up with the future brood that may develop a little sooner than expected..

Great products and great support. Shearwell USA
01/16/2025

Great products and great support. Shearwell USA

Looking forward to seeing how this opportunity leads the sheep industry within the US.
12/06/2024

Looking forward to seeing how this opportunity leads the sheep industry within the US.

Had a great couple days this past week at the ASI Solar Grazing Workshop in Shippensburg, PA. A lot to learn and unders...
11/04/2024

Had a great couple days this past week at the ASI Solar Grazing Workshop in Shippensburg, PA. A lot to learn and understand that's for sure. Great networking with like minded shepherds, some who are currently grazing sites, some who want to be and some who are deciding if this is the path they want to travel. When some people say there is no commercial value for Katahdins, they need to realize that just within this group of maybe 25 people attending, maybe 6-7 guys/gals who were already grazing solar sites, probably had 3-4,000 Katahdin ewes combined! I know of 4-5 producers who were there not currently under solar that probably had another 2,000 ewes combined. Please understand the value of proven performance values and parasite resistance because those breeders in attendance, while they probably wouldn't buy an expensive registered ewe, they truly know and understand the value of a Katahdin ram with EBV's and what it does to their flock of commercial ewes. No other breed was represented, maybe only 1-2 of the flocks had breeds other than Katahdins and 2 past KHSI and the current KHSI president were in attendance. Katahdins, a Breed Whose Time Has Come!

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Alpine, TN
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We are very excited to be a breeder of Registered Katahdin Hair Sheep. We entered the Katahdin business after our search for just a couple sheep to produce our own lamb chops! Who knew couple years later our search would lead us to want to promote and strive to become a breeder for Katahdins. These sheep are as close to maintenance free as any animal I have ever been around. Our goal is to produce meat sheep that will perform with low inputs. The commercial meat flock is what drives our whole existence as an industry. Without people buying lamb we have no industry. We understand that and that is what drives us to produce an animal that does what it is supposed to do. Until we select and produce an animal that is consistent genetically, then no amount of management will ever fix it. I like to use whitetail deer as an example. If all the whitetail deer in TN were put on a 20 acre farm and fed alfalfa hay year around and supplemented just enough to keep them tame....they would dang near all be 250 lb bucks and maybe 14 pointers! Management took care of weak genetics. But nature will only allow the true genetic outliers to become those 250 lb monsters that drive men crazy. So why do we choose breeding stock from small farms who let management dictate the breeding stock we select? Joining NSIP, National Sheep Improvement Plan, several years ago opened my mind to this concept and has proven to be huge. Without data analysis selection will always be for the biggest and the fattest. Not the genetic rockstar. Management will make them bigger and fatter.

We also raise a few AQHA colts a year and you might find a few livestock guardian dogs for sale as well. We have Akbash, Anatolian Shepherd and Komondor LGD dogs to protect our sheep from predators and have pups available usually once a year.