Our Story
Veterinarian Owned, Operated by Feral Children
New Jersey natives Erin and Kevin, like so many other folks, found themselves with a new hobby in 2020: raising sheep. The family moved to Connecticut in 2021 to expand their family and their farm. The family loves to feed their neighbors. They prioritize pasture health and livestock nutrition.
Connecticut Grass, New Jersey Sass
Animal Care Philosophy
With the exception of stressful or demanding life events (birth, illness, or extremely harsh weather), our sheep and our alpacas live outside, period. They love the rain, the snow, and sleeping under the stars and we don't wish to change that for them. We use traditional grass pasture as well as silvopasture year round, and maintain a rotation schedule. Their systems for shelter, feeding, and water move with them. Their fencing is electric and moves with the terrain from season to season. The owner, a livestock veterinarian, evaluates their health at each rotation along with the farm kids, interns, and fellow veterinary professionals.
Meat Quality
Have you ever heard someone say they don't like lamb because it's too "lamby"? Yeah, well, neither do we. Over the years, we have slowly tweaked just about everything to provide a highly superior lamb. From the perfect genetic hybrid, to over-the-top technical improvements in wellness care, a nutritional plan that's tuned in to each life stage (and quite frankly obsessive), an excellent butcher relationship, and implementing customer feedback, we believe we have the mildest, tenderest (is that a word?) cuts. Just our opinion, of course.
Want to hear more from us?
Visit Litchfield in the fall and go see the local phenomenon of Scarecrows in the Meadow!
Dip your toe into ag podcasts with Barnyard Language - often not safe for little ears.
For day-in-the-life content of our sheep and our alpacas, check out our Instagram at @forkyoufarms or our Facebook /forkyoufarms. For a mixture of farm content and farm vet content, visit the TikTok @sheep.rock.vet.