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Desert Weyr - Welcome! 13 October - In Winter Corrals and 21 October - Feeding the Boys in Snow 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, geese and horses. We also work to conserve the old apple trees and are looking at new agricultural products including hops. In The News Desert Weyr recently completed the export of 11 purebred Black Welsh Mountain rams to Canada. This historic exportation provides the much smaller Canadian population with new bloodlines from every existing line including the UK imported semen. We were thrilled to be able to help the conservation of the breed in Canada. We are also the featured farm in the latest Spring issue of Edible Aspen Magazine. Check them out for a great discussion of the role rare breeds have in providing good quality local food. 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. Pilgrim Geese We also raise Pilgrim geese. Pilgrim geese are a heritage breed that is medium sized. They are slower growing than the commercial varieties. Our geese are allowed to run free, eating grasses that are their natural diet. We do supplement our poultry with high quality grains as required for best health. We are looking at a possible new slaughter facility. They would only be able to offer geee that are skinned. If you would be intereste din a skinned goose please contact us, we are deciding now whether to raise butcher geese for 2008. We will offer goose eggs for sale this spring. Lamb and Mutton We 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 ahve a spotted large standard donkey jack. 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 2006 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.