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Desert Weyr: Our Farm
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Paonia, CO 81428
(970) 527-3573
FAX (815) 572-5360
8am-8pm
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Email at sales@desertweyr.com
Desert Weyr - Welcome!
11 June on Pasture
End of Year Sale We have reduced prices on all of our horns and raw fleeces from now until 31 December 2009. Check out the bargains for your Christmas shopping.
Welcome to our farm. We're so glad you stopped by for a visit! At Desert Weyr we develop and implement sustainable systems to conserve the rare and endangered animals that provide so much for us. Our primary goals are the conservation of genetic resources and promotion of sustainable agriculture systems. We currently work primarily with sheep. We also work to conserve the old apple trees.
Our Philosophy Our small family farm produces animal products in a humane and environmentally friendly way. We provide our food and fiber animals with a healthy life and a quick humane death. We provide our horses with the training and care they need to develop into wonderful sweet tempered friends. Our hops and apples are grown in a sustainable fashion designed to improve soil fertility and the farm environment.
We do not feed added antibiotics or growth hormones to any of our animals. Our goal is to take advantage of our animal's ability to transform inedible plants into healthy meat and wool without destroying the environment. Ruminants are ideally suited to forage based agriculture and we have selected our sheep from those breeds which are good foragers. As a benefit we can produce high quality meat without the use of grain feeds. Our lamb and mutton carcasses are very lean and yet remain tender and tasty. Please consider our mutton and lamb when you are ready to fill your freezer. Whole animals available as custom cuts.
Lamb and Mutton
We also have packages of mutton chops, steaks, roasts, shanks, ground meat and stew available for pickup at the farm or delivery in Paonia. Whole sheep and all lamb cuts must be special ordered. Sorry, we do not ship meat.
Arabian Horses and Spotted Mules We produce a small number of CMK Arabian horses based on the Hearst and Maynesboro lines. We also have a spotted large standard donkey jack. Due to our increased focus on sheep we are offering all of our horses and our jack for sale at this time. We no longer stand our stallions or the jack at stud.
Heritage Apples Our apple orchard was originally planted in the spring of 1905 and came from original Stark Brothers plants. We have old style Jonathan and Red Delicious apples. All our scion wood for 2008 is gone but we will again offer wood for grafting next winter.
If you are in the Western Colorado area we'd love to meet you in person. Call or write us to schedule an appointment.
Weyr Associates
Weyr Associates, our computer business is ready to address your multimedia programming needs and offers design services for rugged mobile computing and GPS applications. We specialize in developing custom multimedia applications. In addition we also perform web site design and maintenance. We offer discounted web site services for breeders of rare breed livestock.
Ken and Oogie
Friends may wish to visit our personal page for information on genealogy, desert trips, knitting, weaving, gardening, our cats and some of our favorite recipes.