NORTH COUNTRY CHEVIOTS ON MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE
CHURCHFIELD FARM
This was originally the Bloomfield Farms flock, founded in the sixties from Canadian foundation by J.McKenny Willis and Martin Macqueen and now owned by Susan and Barry Davies, near Hurlock.
PIctured above, the Churchfield Farm ewe flock, with April born lambs.
There are around 20 ewe lambs available for sale. We have trucking available into central Virginia i.e. INT 81. High Road sheep purchased several ewe lambs from this flock in recent years, and found them to be of consistently high quality and productivity. North Country females of this caliber are typically very hard to find.
EWE LAMBS SOLD OUT December 2020
SOLD TO
STEVE SAFFEL, MARLINTON, WEST VIRGINIA.
KELLIE HUNTER, HEFLIN, ALABAMA
ALEX DUMS, MOUNT PLEASANT, NORTH CAROLINA
HIGH ROAD SHEEP, HOT SPRINGS, VIRGINIA.
Susan Davies sis a native of Denmark whom we had never met until recent years, but have enjoyed getting to know she and Barry. Susan is clearly very capable with livestock having managed high quality horse operations in addition to her fine sheep program. Her expertise is also on display in the magnificent flower gardens which she also oversees.
Susan's phone (evenings)
410-253-4916
The ewe flock showing a stout set of lambs, born in April
One of the ewe lambs sired by the ram below. As powerful as this lamb looks, I thought it was a ram
Susan sent us this fine picture of the ram that sired her 2020 lamb crop. His sire is pictured below .I have yet to see him, but Susan assures me I will like him. Looking at his picture, I am inclined to believe her.
He is a son of 2013 Res. National Champion, McHale 0001 (Big Daddy)
More information on this ram to follow.
I am constantly preaching that we need big barreled, wide tracking deep ribbed sheep to maintain our grass friendly performance profile, along with carcass merit.
This ram personifies the right kind in my opinion.
BIG DADDY
Pictured with, from left, Barry, Susan Davies, Bobbie McNabb and Martin Macqueen. High Road bred, sired by High Road 0085, the $2000 breed record seller, and West Virginia Supreme Ram 2012. Dam was Highland Chieftain daughter, bred as a lamb. They were property of Steve NcHale in West Virginia, a longtime cattle friend that we got in the sheep business a few years with considerable success.
"BIG DADDY" was stud ram for Davies flock several seasons.
MIKEY CALLISON IS A YOUNG FRIEND WHO RAISES FINE DORSET SHEEP NEAR HILLSBORO, WEST VIRGINIA WHERE WE SPENT 23 YEARS.
HIS FLOCK HAS ENJOYED CONSIDERABLE SUCCESS, AND MIKEY'S LATEST MOVE WILL NO DOUBT MAKE ANOTHER SPLASH AS HE BRINGS OUT HIS AUSTRALIAN SIRED RAMS.
HE HAS THREE AT THE VIRGINIA RAM TEST, AND WHEN WE SAW THEM, I THOUGHT I HAD BETTER SHOOT PICTURES
LOT 12 FALL BORN
VIRGINIA RAM TEST SALE AUGUST 29
$1300 sale top
LOT 11 FALL BORN
VIRGINIA RAM TEST SALE AUGUST 29
$1300 sale top
THE RAMS PICTURED WERE THE JOINT TOP SELLERS AT THE 2020 VIRGINIA RAM TEST, BRINGING $1300 EACH.
The best Dorset rams I have seen at the Virginisa Ram test
Mikey phone 304-631- 6135
Mikey kept the ram he liked best from his A.I. crop and bred him to several ewes, His next lamb crop should include some similar fire power. He still has Australian semen in the tank. This is the second time in recent years that Mikey had the two top sellers at the VA ram test sale.