RQL Farms

RQL Farms Welcome to RQL Farms! After many years of planning, we have finally moved back to the midwest. Louis and Kansas City.

We are now located in mid-Missouri in the town of California (Columbia, Jefferson City area) about half way between St. RQL Farms is still owned and operated by David and Sandra Rock. In 1995, we began raising Tunis sheep for show and sale and maintain the flock on an 82 acre farm on which we also produce hay. We have sold animals to breeders in New York, Ohio, Missouri, Michigan, New Jersey, Mary

land, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington. A number of our animals have been selected for their fleece quality as some lines within the flock produce high quality fleeces. We tell our friends that the operation is a 4-H project gone wild. What started out in 1995 as one yearling ewe and one ewe lamb each for our son’s and daughter’s 4-H project has grown to a flock of 30 to 40 breeding ewes with replacements and rams. Our Tunis ewe bloodlines are mainly RQL breeding. We are currently using rams from Kleman, Brown and Barkley and bloodlines. We try very hard to maintain a strong commitment to breed character including a deep red color and strong Tunis head, especially the ears (RQL 1607, Best Headed Ewe 2017 NAILE), yet select animals with size, scale and correct leg and hip conformation. Our practice is to gene check all of our breeding animals for Scrapie susceptibility and have made this a priority when selecting rams for future breeding. When not keeping up with the sheep, David is Vice President R&D for NewMarket Pharmaceuticals LLC in Princeton New Jersey having earned a PhD from the University of Nebraska. Sandra is retired and provides bookkeeping services for the farm and our other business interest Leaky Roof Meadery, Buffalo MO. a family run business with our son Todd and daughter Alex producing mead (honey fermented wine) and microbrew products which allows her the flexibility to play a little more with the sheep, the fleeces, dye wool and of course, SPIN! Take a look at the Leaky Roof Meadery page for more information and like us.

We are getting ready to start weaning. We had an extremely good lambing and are very heavy on ewe lambs. Lambs are sir...
03/28/2023

We are getting ready to start weaning. We had an extremely good lambing and are very heavy on ewe lambs. Lambs are sired by our Spilde ram and our RQL ram out of our Stumpe line. Contact us by email at [email protected].

Selling Friday at the Midwest Stud Ram Sale in Sedalia, MO!
06/15/2022

Selling Friday at the Midwest Stud Ram Sale in Sedalia, MO!

Lot 106 & 107 Fitted Yearling Ewes, Lot 108 & 109 February Ewe Lambs, Sired by Spilde rams. Will sell tomorrow at the Oh...
05/13/2022

Lot 106 & 107 Fitted Yearling Ewes, Lot 108 & 109 February Ewe Lambs, Sired by Spilde rams. Will sell tomorrow at the Ohio Showcase Sale!

04/20/2021

How about this! Mowed the yard yesterday. Glad I didn't put the tomato and pepper plants out.

-10 degrees, 6:00 AM, elbow lock pull. Of course it's time for a lamb! Oh, did I tell you she is probably the most orn...
02/16/2021

-10 degrees, 6:00 AM, elbow lock pull. Of course it's time for a lamb! Oh, did I tell you she is probably the most ornery ewe I have. Very protective but doesn't like to stand for teat stripping and oxytocin shot. But all is well now. It's actually supposed to get above zero today. Fortys by the weekend.

A little ice for the new year.
01/02/2021

A little ice for the new year.

Our final offering in the Tunis Summer Spectacular sale is RQL Farms 1901. DOB 9/1/2018, RR. This is a fall lamb from ...
06/16/2020

Our final offering in the Tunis Summer Spectacular sale is RQL Farms 1901. DOB 9/1/2018, RR. This is a fall lamb from last year's show string with wins in Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois. This ram has muscle, bone, length of body and is correct on his feet. He also has grown out extremely well over the winter and is a massive ram that will add size and scale in your flock. We would keep him but unfortunately his breeding is too close to the ewe flock. We can't keep them all.

Our next offering is Item 9, RQL Farms 1902 Yearling ewe, DOB 9/1/2018. A very correct ewe with Millennium, Barnes and ...
06/16/2020

Our next offering is Item 9, RQL Farms 1902 Yearling ewe, DOB 9/1/2018. A very correct ewe with Millennium, Barnes and Uptown. Again, a very excellent addition to your flock.

We have three lots in the Tunis Summer Spectacular Sale on Integrity Livestock Sales this Thursday, 2 yearling ewes and ...
06/16/2020

We have three lots in the Tunis Summer Spectacular Sale on Integrity Livestock Sales this Thursday, 2 yearling ewes and a yearling ram. This is Item 3, RQL Farms 1912 ewe. DOB 1/23/2019, RR. She was shown in 2019 as a lamb and has Millennium, Barnes and Mom's genetics. She will be a great addition to consider.

Well, lambing season is finally over. Ended with a bang with this nice set of triplets. Unfortunately, 3 rams. I don'...
05/06/2020

Well, lambing season is finally over. Ended with a bang with this nice set of triplets. Unfortunately, 3 rams. I don't like having lambs this late in the season. Actually had to set up a fan as we hit the upper 80's on day two. But the late lambs are my fault and I always want to kick myself in the posterior for not taking the rams out, but I never learn. Sandra always used to lecture me to get the rams out, but I never did. She's looking down at me now and saying "MEN".

We have a nice set of females selling tomorrow in the Ohio Showcase Sale on Breeders World (2 Yearling Ewes and a Februa...
05/05/2020

We have a nice set of females selling tomorrow in the Ohio Showcase Sale on Breeders World (2 Yearling Ewes and a February Ewe lamb, Lots 353, 354, 355). The ewe lamb will be Futurity nominated.

This is Lot 353 in the Ohio Showcase on-line sale. RQL Farms 1924. Sire: 278. Dam: 2662. DOB: 03/07/2019. RR.
04/29/2020

This is Lot 353 in the Ohio Showcase on-line sale. RQL Farms 1924. Sire: 278. Dam: 2662. DOB: 03/07/2019. RR.

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34800 Woods Crossing Road
California, MO
65018

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Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 8am - 5pm

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