Cunnington Farms

Our farms routinely run ten breeds of sheep and we sell a wide variety of high quality Roving, Yarn and Finished Wool Products, as well as Navajo Rugs. Our major focus is correct breeding stock and their lambs, which is also our major product. We do not raise any sheep for meat. Our ten breeds of sheep are:

Navajo-Churro, Cotswold, Tunis and CVM are classified endangered livestock by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, and we only sell these four breeds as registered or registerable breeding stock. We also breed and crossbreed California Reds, Corriedales, Romney, Shetland and Icelandic, solely as non-registered spinners flock. Our non-crossbred California Reds are registered.

We specialize in top quality mixed-breeds to produce high quality, unique spinners fleece. While we wholly endorse the fact that pure-bred, registered sheep have identifiable characteristics and need to be bred to exhibit those characteristics, we have come to believe that a mixed-breed spinners flock has a useful place as well. Fleece from a carefully bred mix is unique to those animals and usually cannot be achieved by mixing several different animals' fleeces after shearing. All Cunnington Farms mixed-breed sheep and the fleece they produce are clearly identified as mixed. We have spent twelve years selecting which breeds we feel consistently produce easy-keeping, good mothering, healthy ewes, and virile, good natured rams, as well as babies who have lovely fleece while retaining their desirable sheep traits.

At Cunnington Farms, we care about the ongoing well being of our sheep, therefore, we prefer to sell sheep only to buyers who are already familiar with sheep raising. However, we will sell to people new to sheep raising if they are willing to receive training from us for the particular sheep/breed they purchase and if they agree to stay in touch with us to solve any subsequent problems they might encounter.

Cunnington Farms is a registered breeder with: