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Nomad Shepherd We are a family farm that raises outstanding dairy (EF/Lacaune) and Romanov sheep near Eloy, AZ.

Beluga has found his new home!We have several outstanding dairy rams available right now in Goliad, TX. Beluga (named by...
05/03/2025

Beluga has found his new home!

We have several outstanding dairy rams available right now in Goliad, TX.

Beluga (named by my neices and nephews) is from outstanding lines. He is a triplet out of Kara, who is one of our five best producers! She gives 1.5 gallons of milk a day at peak and has a huge, soft, and easy to milk udder with huge teats. She milks out very quickly and has a wonderful temerment. Beluga was born in February 2023 and is just over 2 years old. He has lambs on the ground this year, so it will be exciting to see how they turn out!
His two triplet sisters are outstanding producers. They gave very close to a gallon a day as yearling first fresheners and are now producing over a gallon a day as second fresheners. We are asking $1000 for him.

The other two rams are unproven yearlings, but their lines are also outstanding. They were both sired by our foundation ram, Grandpa, and their dams are two of our foundation ewes. Their sisters also produced close to a gallon a day as yearling first fresheners and have gone on to produce close to 1.5 gallons a day!
We are asking $450 for each yearling ram.

Sheep from some of our best dairy lines. Mature ewes with twin lambs, yearling ewes and yearling and mature rams availab...
04/11/2025

Sheep from some of our best dairy lines. Mature ewes with twin lambs, yearling ewes and yearling and mature rams available near Victoria, TX!

Update: Sprinkles is sold!Price: $800 Birth year: 2016 Gender: Ewe Breed: Dairy - East Friesian/Lacaune mix Status: In m...
04/04/2025

Update: Sprinkles is sold!

Price: $800
Birth year: 2016
Gender: Ewe
Breed: Dairy - East Friesian/Lacaune mix
Status: In milk

She is 9 years old but acts like she is still in her prime with her sweetness and hardiness. She is friendly and loves getting showered with affection. At age 7, she was giving just about a gallon a day at her peak production. Now, at age 9, she delivered again unassisted as usual. Sprinkles is easy to milk and has long persistent lactations. She is healthy with beautiful teeth and will continue to produce beautiful lambs for several more years. She is an excellent source of dairy ewe replacements and an excellent mother. Her daughters, Myata and Lily, are some of our best producers and were producing over a gallon and a half a day at peak production! She is a great way to get quality genetics at a bit of a cheaper price!

Udder picture captions: From the left: Sprinkles’ 6th year udder in Picture 1 and 2, Myata’s 3rd year udder and Lily’s 2nd year udder.

Update: Jasmine is sold and delivered twins!Price: $1000 (the price will go up when she delivers)Birth year: 2018Gender:...
04/04/2025

Update: Jasmine is sold and delivered twins!

Price: $1000 (the price will go up when she delivers)
Birth year: 2018
Gender: Ewe
Breed: Dairy – East Friesian/Lacaune mix
Status: Bred – Due to deliver any day, she is even starting her prelabor contractions!

Jasmine is 7 years old but still an excellent producer. Her udder conformation and production record make her easily worth $1200 plus she is pregnant with at least twins, but we are asking $1000 because she has a limp. When she was about 4 years old, our friend's cow broke her leg (our friend kept their cow in the same field with our sheep). A vet saw her and confirmed that it was broken. She limps on it, but she acts normally otherwise except that she prefers laying down instead of walking. She is bred and due to deliver in the next week. The vet confirmed the pregnancy by ultrasound. He was not looking to see how many lambs she was carrying, but he said that he saw at least two lambs. In the five pregnancies that she has had since we have known her, she has had two sets of twins and three sets of triplets. Additionally, her lambs often grow at a pound or more a day. She also has pretty good resistance to parasites. She is a valuable source of excellent dairy genetics and has many more years of production left in her!

The pictures are current except for several udder pictures from previous years. The first two udder pictures are of her udder currently. Her udder is growing every day and is not done yet!

We are posting some sheep that are all out of our bloodlines for my brother. He got all his sheep from us. The sheep hav...
03/31/2025

We are posting some sheep that are all out of our bloodlines for my brother. He got all his sheep from us. The sheep have been managed differently than we. If you are in Texas and looking for some dairy sheep, these would be a great opportunity!

Sprinkles' yearling twins and Pepper's yearling twins were sired by Grandpa. These crosses produce ewes who give 1.5 gallons of milk a day!
The ewe lambs are $500 each, and the ram lambs are $450 each and would be very good flock sires.

Golden is a half Romanov, half dairy ewe. Her mother is a full dairy ewe who is a very high producer. Golden's dam peaked at a gallon a day as a yearling first freshener.
Golden's ewe/ram twins were sired by a Romanov ram. They are 3/4 Romanov and 1/4 Dairy.
The lambs are not yet large enough to wean and are available with their mother for $850 for the three of them.

Almond is a 3/4 Dairy 1/4 Romanov ewe. She delivered twin ewe lambs. The lambs are not yet ready to wean, so they are available with their mother for $750 for all three.

Esther is a full dairy (East Freisian/Lacaune) ewe who delivered twin ewes this year. She was bred by full dairy ram. Her ewe lambs are out of excellent genetics and should grow up to be outstanding dairy ewes. They are not yet ready to wean and are available with their mother for $850 for all three of them.

Pepper and Sprinkles are examples of the longetivity that we are looking for in our dairy ewes. They are 9 years old and...
03/09/2025

Pepper and Sprinkles are examples of the longetivity that we are looking for in our dairy ewes. They are 9 years old and still going strong.

Pepper delivered triplets unassisted this year, and she is still putting 1.1 lbs of weight on them a day combined. Her teeth are still strong and healthy, indicating that she will continue her productive life for several more years with the proper management.

Sprinkles delivered a single ewe lamb unasissisted. Her lamb is currently gaining 0.82 lbs per day and leaving some milk behind for me to milk out once a day.
Their udders are healthy, and their teeth are good. They will be a valuable source of milk and outstanding genetics for someone's flock.

Update: Charlie is soldCharliePrice: $1200 (as a bred ewe)Birth year: 2022 (October, out of season)Gender: Ewe Breed: Da...
03/08/2025

Update: Charlie is sold

Charlie

Price: $1200 (as a bred ewe)
Birth year: 2022 (October, out of season)
Gender: Ewe
Breed: Dairy - East Friesian/Lacaune mix
Status: Bred to deliver early March

Charlie was born out of season in October of 2022. Her mother regularly bred out of season. In her first freshening, Charlie delivered mid December and became our main milker. She peaked that year at over 5/8 of a gallon with once a day milking with no lambs on her to help her production. She stayed in milk for over 8 months and was giving about a quart a day at the end of her lactation. She is very friendly, loves grain, and is patient on the milk stand. She has a beautiful udder with long teats that rival goat teats and are perfect for hand milking. We expect her to be producing well over a gallon a day this year. We are asking $1200 because she is bred and bagged up. She looks like she is ready to deliver any day. After delivery, she will be $1000 and her lambs will be an additional price. Her lambs are from an outstanding dairy sire and will be good dairy ewes or breeding ram candidates.

Available ewe #6!DaisyPrice: $1100Birth year: 2022Gender: Ewe Breed: Dairy – 5/8 East Friesian, 3/8 LacauneStatus: In ...
03/08/2025

Available ewe #6!

Daisy

Price: $1100
Birth year: 2022
Gender: Ewe
Breed: Dairy – 5/8 East Friesian, 3/8 Lacaune
Status: In milk with twin ram lambs

Daisy is an exceptional ewe. She was our highest producing yearling in 2023. That year, as a first freshener, she peaked at 1 gallon a day and by the time she was 4 months into lactation she was still going strong at ¾ of a gallon a day. Her udder is easy to milk and she is a great mother. She is out of one of my favorite ewes and she is following in her mother's footsteps with her outstanding production and character. The picture on the left is her udder at freshening this year. The other pictures are of her udder from her yearling year. Her ram lambs are from an outstanding sire and would be excellent breeding ram candidates.

Update! Chocolate has been sold!Available ewe #5!ChocolatePrice: $1000Birth year: 2021Gender: EweBreed: Dairy – ¾ East...
03/07/2025

Update! Chocolate has been sold!

Available ewe #5!

Chocolate
Price: $1000
Birth year: 2021
Gender: Ewe
Breed: Dairy – ¾ East Friesian/ ¼ Lacaune mix
Status: In milk
Chocolate has one of the nicest udders we have seen in our flock. She is out of excellent lines and her mother also had an enormous udder. She is easy to milk out and started out giving 1 gallon of milk a day in early lactation. She has now peaked at over a gallon a day and her ram lamb, Cowboy, is gaining a pound of body weight each day! She is only on her second lactation, so she still has room to increase in her production!

Update! Pepper has been sold!Available ewe #3!PepperPrice: $800Birth year: 2016Gender: EweBreed: Dairy – East Freisian/...
03/07/2025

Update! Pepper has been sold!

Available ewe #3!

Pepper
Price: $800
Birth year: 2016
Gender: Ewe
Breed: Dairy – East Freisian/Lacaune mix
Status: In milk

Pepper is our other flock queen. She is 9 years old and also rules with her s***k. She is a high producing, prolific ewe who usually has twins or triplets. She even delivered triplets, unassisted, this year as a 9 year old! She was giving just about a gallon of milk a day when she was 7 years old at her peak production and has an easy to milk, well attached udder. She is an excellent source of replacement ewes. Her daughters are some of the highest producing ewes that have been in our flock. One of her daughters gave 7/8 of a gallon a day before she even hit her peak production as a yearling first timer! Another daughter also gave a gallon a day at her peak production. She passes on her fast refill rate to her daughters, and they are truly exception ewes. She also has persistent lactations. She has very good teeth still and should have several more years of lambing left in her!

Udder picture caption: Pepper’s udder is the left. The top picture is 5 months into lactation and the bottom picture is when she had just freshened.
The pictures on the right are of her daughter’s udder.

03/07/2025

Update! Lilac has been sold!

Available ewe (lamb) #2!

Lilac (Sprinkle's ewe lamb)
Price: $350
Birth year: 2025
Gender: Ewe
Breed: Dairy – East Friesian/Lacaune mix
Status: Ewe lamb

Lilac is a single ewe lamb out of Sprinkles, born on February 9th, 2025. She is out of excellent lines on both her dam's and sire's sides. I would expect with the proper management she would grow up to produce over a gallon of milk a day. Most of her sisters have produced over half a gallon their first year, about a gallon their second year and over a gallon in the following years. She can be purchased on her own for $350 or as part of a package with her dam, Sprinkles, for $1000.

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