Cormo 24-7

Cormo Fleece for Sale

2012-01-11T05:16:00.000-08:00

Here are the rules for the Fleece:

Intro first: This has been the way I sell my raw fleeces for years, and it has worked out fine.
This is the reason I do it this way...
I and the Border Collie, Dex are the only ones here on the farm working. My sister comes over and helps when I really need her, but she is NOT into raising sheep.
I shear the sheep on or around Feb 15th, as I need to get what is not sold to the processors the next day so I can have my goods back to me in April for Greencastle Fiber Event.
To get all of this work done I HAVE to sell the Prime a month in advance.
The typical shearing day goes like this:
8:00am Start shearing, bag and tag each fleece, (Sharon's Job)
Noon: Sharon and I skirt and package the order(s) for each fleece.
9:00 pm bag for processor
Next morning, mail packages to you the buyer
Next day: Drive to processor.

These Fleeces WILL NOT come off until Feb 15th 2012

1st monies to Paypal wins (charepley@gmail.com), along with shipping monies. Remember to add your REAL Name and your Avatar Name, your e-mail to your Paypal. My phone # is 269-330-9899. BUT, I will not reserve over phone. Shipping quotes at USPS.com, use Priority package. Not the Flat Rate, (too expensive). My Zip code is 49093
I will post sales as they come in, remember that does take time.

These fleeces are available for 25.00 per pound for the prime wool, that is the fleece that has been under the coat, and is free of vegetation.

Fleece can be sold by the pound, and if still available can be bought as a whole fleece. The adults will be about 5#s, - 4 #s.

1st monies gets your choice of fleece...Thank You.

Contact me at charepley@gmail.com

Bear

Bear's Fleece, bit of Veg as he was not coated when I bought him...has had coat on since.. Kim K 2.5, 1# Rena M ALL SOLD


Diana

Diana's Fleece ALL SOLD 3# Sold

1# Sold Stephanie H

Edith

Edith's Fleece All Sold Susan S

Ella

Ella's Fleece SOLD 2# Marice D, 2 #Loan N. ALL SOLD

Emma

Emma's Fleece 3# Patty O' 1# Sherrie G ALL SOLD

Ewe?

Ewe? Fleece Karen K ALL Sold

Vanessa

Vanessa's Fleece 1#'s Sold 3# Christine C ALL SOLD

Page

Page's Fllece 1#Ariana Bauer 2# Jane L 1#Katie M ALL SOLD

Prism

Prism's Fleece 2#Dana M, 2#Sherrie G ALL SOLD

Ray (wether's Fleece) 1# Tracy G, 1 # Jane L, 1# Marice D, 1# Kerri P ALL SOLD

Samples of the February Offerings

2011-12-12T17:54:00.000-08:00

This fleece will have 2 months to do some more going, than it will be sheared, and offered for sale .

I'll be posting all of the photos around the 12th of January, 2012. They will be available for sale on that day.

Then they will be sheared on February 12th. and shirted. The sold fleeces will be mailed out on the 14th.

This is one of the colored ones...

And another...

Once again this year you'll be able to purchase in pound increments, or the whole fleece.

The Winter Chores

2011-11-28T07:23:00.000-08:00

Dex and I were in the barn on Saturday changing sheep coats and checking out the gorgeous fleeces under those coats. Actually left Dex to hold the ewes in the barn so I could retrieve the measure tape to measure the length of the fleeces that I was looking at...WOW! The ewes are already at 5", and the spring lambs are 3". The fleeces look wonderful.
I've had to hire a new Shearer, as I have lost the one I used to use to Nebraska :>(. I am thinking that because the new Shearer lives so close to me I might let the lambs go to spring. Those will be wonderful fleeces as it would be their hogget fleeces.
I plan to check the rams today...
Sharon will pick a sunny day in December to do photos of the sheep, and their fleeces. I'll be cutting a sample to send to Yocom-McColl for Micron testing.
When I get my hands on the rams I'll take photos of their fleeces, than I'll post them so you can get a taste of what will be available.
Shearing will take place on FEB 15th 2012.

Fall of 2011

2011-10-11T10:09:00.000-07:00

This year has been a wonderful year for the sheep. The lambs sold very well and I am very happy with the breeding animals that I have kept.
I am really tightening my belt on what I will and will not accept as breed stock. I know not all folks can afford to do that, but I will NOT sell what I would not keep myself.

My "I Hate List"...

No Scurs or Horns
Mature Fleece 17-23 microns, (not 23.1 or higher). Fleece test to prove it.
Mature Ewes: Prime fleece, (under the coat) 4# or more Mature Rams: 4.5#'s or more of Prime.
Temperment
Hardiness, and worm resistant

I have lambs due in November, and the rams are in breeding groups for late winter lambs.
This go-around I have three breeding groups formed. Two registered groups, and one colored. I can't stand the wait.

I made a purchase of two Tunis ewes and a ewe lamb, as they were headed for the meat market. They all are being bred to Pepin...we'll see what that produces. Keep thinking that I should get them their own Tunis ram, but I will wait and see.

The end of the month I'll be delivering a ram and ewe to a friend in Ohio. She is sick of her ram throwing her "horned" lambs so she is getting a really nice young ram from me. His head is clean as a whistle and she should have very good luck with him. She also has a ewe that has scurs and she too is part of the problem. The ewe that she is getting from me has never thrown horns, and she is very "clean" headed.

I told her to let me know what she gets from this crossing as I would be interested in a lamb from it.

Please if you are buying Registered animals that are suppose to be polled...Check Them.
This year I rid myself of ALL my scurs!

Once again I have "Thank" my sister for the photos...

New lambs are coming...

2011-02-14T15:44:00.000-08:00

This is a pre lamb photo...Mona. I am expecting trips or quads, and hoping everything goes well...She is creating many sleepless nights for me.

This Vanessa's moorit spotted ewe lamb born at 10:00pm on Sunday, Feb 27th. Very excited about this ewe.

Arti had triplet ewe lambs last Saturday at 4:00am.

These are Endives twin lambs, she had them today at
1:30pm

Butternut, 2011 ewe lamb, Cha-Cha,

and another photo of her.

This Diana's ram lamb, Dylan. I am assuming that he will mature into a gray...he is a fun color right now :>).
As usual it will be a wait and see...

May and Tempest, aka The Blizzard Baby.

The Hired Hand

2011-01-22T12:23:00.000-08:00


This is Dex. The Border Collie that I bought from Denise Rackley.


Dex with Denise's Sheep

Sharon and I drove to Indiana, (almost to Kentucky), to watch Dex work Denise's sheep, before deciding to buy him or not.
Dex is fully trained and very good with the sheep.

Denise's sheep are very used to being worked by dogs and seem very complacent about the whole ordeal. My sheep met Dex on Sunday and they were a bit more panicked about the situation. They are now getting used to the weekly round- up for inspection.

Once a week Dex and I go and gather up the 3 pens of sheep, one pen at a time and check their heath, hooves, and coats. What used to take me several days to do now is done in one day.
I used to have to call the sheep into the barn with grain, get the gate behind them shut, and than chase them around and check one, than chase again, check that one.etc etc... you get the idea.
Now, Dex puts them in the barn, and holds them there. While he is "holding" the sheep, they stand stock still, and never take their eyes off the dog. I can walk to each individual and do what I need to do to them. They won't move a muscle while I change the coats.
He also helps when I feed, as I used to have to get off tractor, open gate, keep sheep from getting out, drive tractor through gate, get off, shut gate, get back on tractor, drop hay, and do it all in reverse to get out of pasture. Now I open gate, send Dex, drop hay, drive out, tell Dex "that'll do", and shut gate.
He has been a wonderful addition to the farm, and a
great time saver...I LOVE this dog.

Denise's Sheep and Dex

Lamb Pictures

2011-01-16T16:04:00.000-08:00

Cormo Top

2011-01-15T09:40:00.000-08:00

White

Here is the Cormo Top that is available.

Price is 3.75 ounce, or 60.00 a Pound.

Very dark browwn

Light Gray-Brown

All Fleeces are SOLD

2010-03-22T02:58:00.000-07:00

Last night at 11:00pm the final Fleeces were sold.
Thank You for patronage.
They will be sheared on March 29th at 4:00pm, I will get them packaged and shipped on April1st, (I sure it will be the afternoon).

I have lambs for sale and I will post them soon.

CORMO FLEECES

2010-03-17T18:31:00.000-07:00

Last weekend I had an opportunity to pick up ten more Cormos, (ACSA registered), and Cormo Xs. They are a flock that Brenda Arnold had that she acquired from Alice Fields, and two from Betsy Neal.

My sister Sharon took all the photos, "Thank You Sharon"...Betty and Jim Garpow, and Steve Rouse helped out with changing coats and taking fleece samples..."Thank You".

These fleeces are available for 25.00 per pound for the prime wool, that is the fleece that has been under the coat, and is free of vegetation. Nick Weaver will shear these sheep on March 29th 2010, and April 1, 2010 will be mailed out.

Fleece can be sold by the pound, and if still available can be bought as a whole fleece. The adults will be about 5#s, and the yearlings 3-4 #s.

1st monies gets your choice of fleece...Thank You.

Contact me at charepley@gmail.com

This ewe is Artomesia: Bred by Alice Fields

This is her fleece photo..SOLD (1/2 Lisa G), (1/2 S L)

This is Butternut: Bred by Alice Fields

and her fleece...SOLD (Ellen B)

The next photo is Prism: Bred by Alice Fields

and her fleece... SOLD 2# SOLD (Cathy Z) ...3# SOLD (Amy F)

This photo is Calico: Cormo X Bred by Alice Fields

and her fleece..."SOLD" 1 # SOLD (Sarah B) 2#s SOLD(Straightfork Farm)

This is Mona Lisa, a CormoX, Bred by Alice Fields

This is her fleece...SOLD (Jan G)

This ewe is Ella, she was bred by Betsy Neal

and Ella's fleece... SOLD 2 #s SOLD (Amy R)........3# SOLD (Angela D)

This ewe is Emma, (Ella's twin)...

and a shot of her fleece...SOLD (Dallas S)

The next three photos are yearlings born in 2009, sired by Washington, a Ram bred by Jenny Setser:
This is a wether named Toby: His dam is Prism.

This is his fleece.. SOLD 1# SOLD (DeAnna B) 2#s SOLD (Amy R)

This Ewe is Milly, her dam is Artomesia:

This is her fleece..SOLD (Nicole D)

and last but not least, this is Lily, her dam is Emma:

and her fleece...SOLD 1# SOLD (Jennifer R) 3# SOLD (Lisa K)

If you are interested in any of this fleece contact me at charepley@gmail.com

2010 Available Fleeces (Attached til Feburary 13)

2010-01-13T05:19:00.000-08:00

All these fleeces on this page are SOLD...Thank You
Check the newest post for available Fleeces...

Here a a snapshot of this years fleeces.

They are available for 25.00 per pound, (the covered veggie free prime).
Email me, (charepley@gmail.com) if you are interested in fleece.
Fleece is sold by the pound, you don't need to buy the whole fleece.
Must be reserved and paid for before Feb.6th. Feb 13th is the shearing day, and I'll be sending all remaining fleeces to the processors on Monday, Feb.15.

This is Dixie-SOLD Pending Payment

This is Edith SOLD

This is Endive SOLD

This is Gladys-Sold

This is Ray the Wether SOLD

This is Diana-SOLD

Don's Fleece SOLD

Mar's Fleece-Sold

Vanity's Fleece Reserved

There are other sheep that are being put into Top. These are ewe's that lambed last year and had coats off due to lambs. There is a bit of "barnyard" in the fleece, and some dirty tips, so I'll have those fleeces processed to remove that. There are lambs too that were coated late, and have dirty tips.

This is the ram lamb Gus

(Will be processed into Top)

2009-12-15T10:34:00.000-08:00

Well, he's been on the ground for a week now, so I thought I'd post some new photos. Having his mom all to himself is making him grow like a weed.

2009-12-07T20:16:00.000-08:00

Well, Sunday morning (Dec. 6th) at 7:30 I, in my bathrobe, making coffee, looked out the kitchen window only to see some little black "thing" scurry around the hay feeder...Than, my brain kicks in...OMG, that is a lamb...

I "threw" cloths on, slip on shoes, and no jacket, flew out of the door to the sheep yard, ran around the feeder, grab the lamb, and headed to the barn. (It was 23 degrees that am)
All of the ewes were in hot pursuit. I put junior in the stall, than went to retrieve Vanity, who had retreated back to the feeder to look for her baby. A simple call got her turned around, and headed to the gate to the stall, had to fight off the Texel Ewe to get Vanity through the gate, but I won, (hard to push a Texel around...).
Here are a few photo opps of the babe...

He is doing great and eating well...

Yes, he is coated...it's colder than hell out.
He hasn't even used the heat lamp, but I still have it on.Obviously, I am colder in the barn than he is.

This is a Black ram lamb by "Mars", out of "Vanity".

Cormo Pictures and Fleeces

2009-11-27T20:10:00.000-08:00

Yes, I have been very tardy about updating the blog. I need to find more time in the day, and learn to type.

This June I purchased two more Colored Cormo Crosses. The fleeces are just as soft, long and as lovely as Registered Cormos, but due to the fact that reg. Cormos have to be white, these are referred to as Colored Cormo Crosses.

This is the new ram...Mars

The tuff on his chest is some fleece that has "puffed" from under his Sheep Suit.

Here is his fleece photo...

This fleece will be processed into pin draft roving, and will be available

in April

The new ewe is Vanity

She is very pregnant, and making bag, she is not at her "picture best" :>)

This is her fleece...

Vanity's prime, (wool under their sheep suits), will also be processed into pin draft if not sold as a fleece

If you are interested in any of fleeces in the raw please contact me at:

charepley@gmail.com

Here is one of my favorite ewes...This is Vanessa. She is very much the type I like to see in a Cormo, the look of a marshmallow with legs. Her legs are very straight, and her overall conformation is very good.

Vanessa has spots and her fleece runs from tan, to med gray, to light gray, to white.

This fleece will be shown this year, after the shows this year it will be available.

This is her fleece...

Gladys is one of my reg. Cormo ewes, she is bred to Pepin. Gladys has a beautiful white fleece. Her fleece will be shown this year in the white class.

and this is her fleece...

This a very typie ewe, her name is Endive. Once again one of my favorites. Great conformation and straight legs. She is a joy to be around.

her fleece...

This just start of what I have, and I'll post the rest of the crew as soon as I get my sister back over on the 1st of December. I have "ants in my pants", and can't wait to get them sheared. They will be sheared by Nick

Weaver on February 13, 2010.

"Thank You" Sharon for taking all of the photos.

Cormo Lambs 2009

2009-03-24T17:40:00.000-07:00

This is baby Gus, named after his father.
Gus is out of a 7 year old ewe, KarKar.

The cats

2008-12-12T16:04:00.000-08:00

Intro of my cats. This is RW GCH Sunstones Heat of The Moment aka Charmer, he is the one that started it all. I raised him and showed him to his Regional Win. I bred 4 cats in this area to him, and was flown to CA and has bred 3 more. All of the breedings have produced Regional and National Winners. This summer I sold Charmer to a judge in CA, as I didn't have the heart to neuter him to keep him a pet.

Here is a shot of the kittens of Charmer and Summer they are a couple of days old

This is one of the kittens at 4 weeks
(OMG Look at those ears)

Here is Hootie the Ocicat, and Lucy the Yorkie
Hootie is the kitten that I kept from the litter, she is a very buzy "helper".
Lucy was found in a ditch three years ago and given to me.
You see who gets to use the fleece.

Welcome to Cormo 24-7

2008-12-03T10:59:00.000-08:00

Welcome to my small farm in Three Rivers, Michigan. I have a slice of heaven on 13 acres. I am surrounded by small acreage farmers so it's a tight knit family neighborhood.

I raise Cormo sheep on my small plot. They are wonderful sheep to be around, as they are quite, calm, and produce "lots" of wonderful fiber that has "no itch". Cormo wool is recommended to use for baby garments.
The Cormo are a medium size sheep that makes them easier to handle, and due to their size, they also eat less then many of the fine wool breeds.

On the farm we also have the usual dogs and cats.

Here is the guard dog and the hunting dog

Luke is a rescue that I got from Karen White of Doberman & Rottweiler Rescue in Terre Haute, IN when he was 12 weeks old.
If you are ever looking Karen can be found in Pet Finders.

Moses is my German Shorthair Pointer. He is a Black and White male that was pick pup from Joy Clay's litter.
He used to be my field trial dog, but he is working out at being a wonderful farm dog.

Here is Luke "helping" my sister, Sharon do some spinning.

Sharon just started spinning within the last 2 months and is already making wonderful yarn. I hate when "newbies" skip the "rope" stage :>).