Graham & Margaret Phillipson
Proprietors

Specializing in high quality purebred North Country Cheviot

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 market lambs.

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

Our sheep are maintained on pasture year round and are fed a grass hay mixture during the winter. The ewes are provided with a protein lick tub for 3-4 weeks prior to lambing and the lambs are offered a 20% commercial sheep feed for a few weeks after they are born in March/April until pasture is available. The sheep are sheared in April/May each year. The lambs are weaned in August and any surplus cross bred lambs are marketed as feeder lambs. The remaining cross bred lambs are kept on pasture until October by which time they have acheived optimum weight for market. For more information spend a Year at Littledale.

Graham and Margaret Phillipson
21925 County Highway ZZ, Richland Center, WI 53581
Tel: (608) 647-7118
Email: Littledalefarm@countryspeed.com

Our Border Collie herding dogs originated in the UK - 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, Dave, Maggie Nick and Ted.