Graham
& Margaret Phillipson
Proprietors
 Welcome to Littledale, our Wisconsin Farm & Bed and Breakfast! The premier source for the best of the British Hill sheep breeds. |
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 Specializing in high quality purebred North Country Cheviot and Scottish Blackface sheep, that are continually improved with the best UK genetics available. The three tier British breeding system is employed to ultimately produce a prime lamb of superior conformation and taste. Established in 1984 , Litttledale is located in Southwestern Wisconsin where the rolling hills provide a great home for our thrifty sheep. Currently, we have a flock of approximately 120 ewes and 20 rams. Both of our purebred sheep breeds are hardy and do well on simple feed – they are easy keepers! We also breed some North Country Cheviot ewes and Scottish Blackface ewes to a Bluefaced Leicester ram to produce Mule Sheep. We keep all the ewe lambs from these crosses and market ram lambs as wether feeder lambs. The Mule ewes are bred to our English Suffolk Terminal Sire to produce superior muscled feeder lambs and hybrid terminal sires. Recently, we have AI’d several half English Suffolk ewes with imported English Suffolk semen from the UK Suffolk Sire Reference Scheme and are in the process of developing a line of three-quarter hybrid Suffolk terminal sires. These “Littledale Suffolks” are hardy, easy keeping terminal sires that produce lean, quality carcasses, especially when mated to the Mule ewe. Our sheep are maintained on pasture year round and are fed a grass mixture hay during the winter. The ewes are provided a protein lick tub for 3-4 weeks prior to and after lambing and the lambs are offered a mixture of shell corn and 15% commercial sheep feed for a few weeks after they are born in March until the pasture is available. The sheep are sheared in April/May each year. The lambs are usually weaned in late July, and the cross bred lambs are marketed as feeder lambs. For more information spend a Year at Littledale. |
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 Our
Border Collie herding dogs
originated in England - our first dog was imported from the
Littledale area of Lancashire, England in 1979. Our dogs are all
worked regularly on the farm and Graham is currently training our young dogs Don, Nan
and Rose.
We offer Bed & Breakfast in our renovated farm house - an informal home away from home atmosphere in the beautiful hill country of Southwest Wisconsin. |
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