Sunset Skies Farms

06/18/2023

Happy Father's Day to all those out there lucky enough to be called dad!

07/26/2022

My "new" (redone) welcome mat!!

06/14/2022

We have finally gotten everyone sheared! Well, except one very pregnant female. The decision was made that she will be much less stressed if we left her until birth. She has plenty of shade and a big water container to be in! I can't forget to mention the water hose as well!!!

04/02/2022

Lovely glimmer in this 80% silver gray alpaca combined with 20% aubergine trilobal/merino blend.
Loving this one for sure!!

03/31/2022

03/12/2022

Just finished this new single! Will be plying with a fawn shetland.

02/25/2022

Another little helper!

02/25/2022

Hubby taking pictures of the new toy......

02/04/2022

“Farm work doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you anything. It reveals you.
There’s gym strong and then there’s farm strong. They’re mutually exclusive. The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a farm.

There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine. You can tie up a hole in a slow feeder, fashion a tail strap for a horse’s blanket, mend a broken fence and use it as a belt.

“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.
Control is a mere illusion. The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.
Sometimes sleep is a luxury. So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.

If you’ve never felt your obliques contract, then you’ve never tried stopping an overly full wheelbarrow of horse manure from tipping over sideways. Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.

When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort.
Their needs come first. In summer heat and coldest winter days. Clean water, clean bed, and plenty of feed. Before you have your first meal, they all eat.

When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.
You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully. You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.
You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.

You will, at least once, face-plant in the manure pile. You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.
You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.
You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p. People will look at you sideways and krinkle their noses but you won’t care.
Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.
You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.

Farm work is difficult in its simplicity.
You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.
Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a farm, take the chance! You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.”

-Author Unknown

07/05/2021

These 4 boys are standing stud here at Sunset Skies Farms! If you are interested in beautiful greys, please feel free to inquire about them!

06/20/2021

Awwwwww....

06/01/2021

The new girls!!

04/05/2021

Headed back from Pennsylvania in the morning!
I miss my fur babies!

03/27/2021

Getting geared up for shearing season!!! Can't wait to get started