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After wandering around the world for 25 years while in the Air Force, we ended up here, thirty miles from the University of Missouri, where our oldest daughter was attending college.  Our youngest daughter was into animals and had a couple of  horses which she rode in horse shows.  When the Air Force reassigned us from Florida to Missouri, we purchased a few acres, and brought our horses with us.   Within a few years our herd grew to seventeen Arabian horses.  Unfortunately, Arabian horses do not sell well in quarter horse country and when our daughter grew up and moved out on her own, we decided that horses were not going to make us rich. 

In 1977 we purchased a few black Angus cattle and six suffolk sheep.   The cattle took care of themselves, but we found that we didn't enjoy taking our lambs to slaughter.  We sold our suffolk sheep, and in 1989 we purchased our first Karakul ram and ewe and immediately fell in love with them because of their beauty, their personality, their size, their uniqueness and ease of care.  We now have a flock of 90 plus ewes and rams, all registered with the American Karakul Sheep Registry, which Rey is the Registrar.  Since our first ram and ewe, we have strived to improve, through genetics, the quality of our flock, and now feel that our flock is one of the best in the country.  We have been fortunate to obtain rams and ewes from the major bloodlines available in this country.  Our efforts to improve our flock culminated in receiving the award for Champion Ewe in the coarse wool show in November 2000 at the North American International Exposition at Louisville, Kentucky, recognized as one of the largest sheep shows in the United States. 

In 1989 we purchased our first llama, Fernando.  He was 4 months old.  So he wouldn't get lonely we kept him with our sheep.  Up to that point it was not uncommon to lose lambs every year to coyotes.  We noticed that we quit losing lambs after we got Fernando and learned that llamas were used in Peru to guard sheep.  We decided to start raising llamas, not only to guard our sheep, but to sell to other sheep breeders.  We are pleased that the Missouri Department of Conservation includes slides of our llamas guarding our sheep in its presentations on predator control.

Showing our Karakuls at sheep shows has become a family affair.  Our grandchildren enjoy working and showing off their sheep, especially our 6 year old granddaughter, Sadie, who takes it very seriously.   

If you'd like to see pictures of  some of our sheep, including the one which was selected as the coarse wool Champion Ewe of the Louisville Sheep Show, please click on to (pictures) below.

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