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30 Registered Barbados Blackbelly Hair Sheep, plus 26 lambs that need homes.  Can provide breeding stock and 4-H club lambs.

Also raise Standard Bronze, Royal Palm and Bourbon Red Heritage Breed Turkeys.  Call to place your order.

In addition to the turkeys, have Blue Shoulder and White Peafowl (peacocks and peahens); plus, 3-4 colors of guineas.

Old Forge Farm is a historic farm, with a two-story, three-bay field stone house, built in 1762 by George French, then purchased two years later by the Hughes family, and near the site of their iron plantation.  Old Forge produced nails and tacks; had a grist mill, lumber mill, a stone duplex, and other structures to support the industry.  Old Forge Farm is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

We are a family-operated farm, located in southern Frederick County, Maryland.

Photo:  Myron & Cathy Horst (middle), and our six children from the left:  Joel, Nathan, Melody, Daniel, Kara and Luke Horst.

We provide quality, pasture raised meat and eggs at an affordable price.

Our sheep and lambs -- we have 50 ewes and raise purebred Texel sheep, commercial Dorset sheep, and Dorset/Texel Crossbred sheep.

Our farm products include:

.  Texel & Dorset sheep breeding stock and fleeces.

.  100% pasture raised and pasture finished, custom-processed lamb (also called freezer lamb).

.  Pasture raised and organically fed free-range chickens, turkeys and free-range eggs.   Go to our website for processing dates.

.  Raw honey

.  Now available:  frozen chicken and turkey

.  New Item:  Stewing Hens

.  Natural Dog Food

Enjoy our website -- our history, fixing up the farm, farming philosphy, and photo album.

30 Registered White Merino Ewes, and Registered Natural Colored Merino Ewes.

We provide  the following:

Merino breeding stock -- lambs and yearlings for both show and production.
Specialize in fall-born Merino lambs.
Covered fleeces for spinning and felting in many colors.
Micron-tested fleeces.
Roving.
Tanned Sheepskin Pelts.
Custom-Processed Freezer Lamb.
4-H Club (Project) Lambs.
Felted Items.

A unique farm with registered Blue-faced Leicester sheep. We have a small flock - 8-12 sheep only. Lambs arrive from late March to end of April and are for sale and ready to go by June. The ewes and ram are chosen for: fleece luster; fiber strength; consistency of fiber throughout the animal; conformation (I tend to like the sheep to be substantial throughout the back and hind end as well as length of the back). Our sheep have great length without the "swayback".

The sheep share their pasture with Traveler, a Tennessee Walking Horse whose job is to herd and protect the sheep. All our sheep are covered year-round to protect their fleeces.  Most of our fleeces are shown and sold either privately, or at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. We have won 1st place in the Bluefaced Leicester division of the MSWF from 2013 to 2018, in 2017 we were Reserve Grand Champion Fleece! If you are interested in clean, lustrous wool with amazing crimp that will create a wonderful draping garment, then contact us for fleeces. We also have breeding stock lambs for sale as well as young market rams for slaughter.  Check us out on Facebook (under Margie Smith) or our website: marlindalefarm.net for updated information.