Our Story at Kelsey Brook Farms
For over 40 years, Kelsey Brook Farms has been a family-owned sanctuary of sustainable farming, rooted in our commitment to quality and the environment. We raise grass-fed lamb and goats with the utmost care, ensuring tender, flavorful meats that bring families together. Our sheep also provide solar grazing, naturally maintaining solar fields, while our goats offer goat scaping, an eco-friendly solution for land clearing. Guided by humane practices and a passion for stewardship, we’re proud to serve our community with premium meats and innovative services. Visit our farm to meet our family and discover the heart behind our mission.
Meet Our Family | Learn About Our Practices
For over 40 years, Kelsey Brook Farms has been a family-owned sanctuary of sustainable farming, rooted in our commitment to quality and the environment. We raise grass-fed lamb and goats with the utmost care, ensuring tender, flavorful meats that bring families together. Our sheep also provide solar grazing, naturally maintaining solar fields, while our goats offer goat scaping, an eco-friendly solution for land clearing. Guided by humane practices and a passion for stewardship, we’re proud to serve our community with premium meats and innovative services. Visit our farm to meet our family and discover the heart behind our mission.
Meet Our Family | Learn About Our Practices
Katahdin Sheep The Katahdin is a modern American breed of sheep. It is an easy-care sheep: it grows a hair coat with little wool which moults naturally in the spring, and so does not need to be shorn. It is reared for meat only. It was developed by a breeder named Michael Piel in Maine, and is named for Mount Katahdin in that state. From about 1957 he cross-bred a small number of African Hair Sheep from the Virgin Islands with various meat breeds, principally the Suffolk. In 1957 a farmer named Michael Piel imported three African Hair Sheep – a ram and two ewes – from the island of Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands to his farm in Abbot, Maine. For almost twenty years he experimentally cross-bred them with sheep of a wide variety of breeds, among them the American Tunis, the Cheviot, the Hampshire Down, the Southdown, the Suffolk and other English Down breeds. All but the Suffolk crosses were eventually discarded, and a flock of about 120 breeding ewes was selected. In the 1970s he experimented with cross-breeding with the Wiltshire Horn, the only naturally-moulting English sheep; after his death in 1976, his widow took steps to breed out unwanted characteristics of this cross including the horns, the lower prolificacy and the reduced ease of handling. |
Kiko Goats The Kiko is a breed of meat goat originating from New Zealand. Kiko comes from the Māori word for meat. The Kiko breed was developed in the 1980s by Garrick and Anne Batten, who cross-bred local feral goats with imported dairy goat bucks of the Anglo-Nubian, Saanen, and Toggenburg breeds. The only aims of the breeding programme were fast rate of growth and ability to survive in the pastoral conditions of the New Zealand hill country. The Kiko breed was imported into the United States in 1992 by Goatex Group LLC. Today, three registries exist in the US for Kikos: the AKGA, the IKGA, and the NKR, the latter of which is the largest of the three. Through these agencies, Kikos could be registered as 100% New Zealand, meaning that their lineage can be traced all the way back to the original New Zealand stock. "Purebreds" refer to goats that are at least 15/16ths New Zealand stock and "percentages" are those that are at least 50% New Zealand stock. Kiko-Boer crosses can also be registered as Genemaster™ through the NKR. GOAT FACTS Lifespan: 15–18 years Gestation period: 150 days Produce 2 kids on average Able to digest and detoxify noxious plants Resistant to bloating Ruminant digestion Goat milk is easy to digest Herded for thousands of years |
|
|
Kelsey Brook Farms – Sustainably Raised, Family Crafted
Join us in celebrating the rich flavors of grass-fed lamb and goat meat and the eco-friendly benefits of our solar grazing and goat scaping services. Stay connected for updates on our premium cuts, farm events, and sustainable land solutions. Sign up for our newsletter or follow us on social media to share in our commitment to quality and community. Visit our farm stand today!
Join us in celebrating the rich flavors of grass-fed lamb and goat meat and the eco-friendly benefits of our solar grazing and goat scaping services. Stay connected for updates on our premium cuts, farm events, and sustainable land solutions. Sign up for our newsletter or follow us on social media to share in our commitment to quality and community. Visit our farm stand today!