The Sheep

Wesh Farm's Babydoll Southdown Sheep

Mellie, Patty, Rain, Olivia and Franklin.
Summer of 2011 by the lake.

Wesh Farm has Babydoll Southdown Sheep, which are registered through the Babydoll Southdown Sheep Breeders Assoc registry. Teddybear sheep, Olde Enligh Babydolls, miniature Southdowns, Babydoll Southdowns or simply the "sheep that smile" - they've got a lot of nicknames, but one thing runs true no matter what you call them: they're sweet!

This particular breed of sheep is very sweet, on the smaller side and have big smiles on their faces that are just adorable. They graze well and make great weeders, without ruining trees because of their short height even when fully grown. The breed's smaller size also helps to break up soil without actually compacting it. "Babydolls" also get along well with other animals, ours often run about in our horse pasture or free roam. Here's more information on Babydoll Southdown sheep.

We acquired our sheep in the summer of 2008 from a wonderful local family who had a wide variety of rams and ewes. Our original flock was composed of: Arthur, a white ram; Olivia, a white ewe; Bob, a white wether (fixed male) and Mellie, a black ewe

Currently, our farm's flock is:
- Rain, a black ewe born from Mellie and Arthur in the spring of 2010 - Babe, a white ewe born from  Mellie and Arthur in the spring of 2015 - Millie, a black ewe we purchased from MD in the spring of 2018 - Henrey, a white wether we purchased from NY in the fall of 2018 - #15, a grand champion white ewe we purchased from MN in the spring of 2019 - Briggs, a white ram we purchased from north NJ in the winter of 2019

The lambs born at Wesh Farm have usually been born in February or March of each spring and have been born every spring since we first got our original flock in 2008.

Rain, Mellie, and Patty

When we first started, the black coloring was still fairly unusual and uncommon in the Babydoll Southdown sheep. However, Wesh Farm has quite a few as our original ewe, Mellie, produced only black lambs for us. We happen to love the dark fleece and Mellie and now her daughter, Rain, have proven to have exceptionally sweet personalities.

Our ram, Briggs, being shown in Ringoes, NJ

Our lambs are raised to be friendly and fun. We have had families out to the farm to take pictures with the sheep - they follow you around, love fresh grass, are adorable when they bounce around and will do almost anything for animal crackers!

These sheep make a great addition to any farm.

Feel free to contact us with any questions you have about these sweet, smiley sheep.