Welcome BRASS Farm!
The 2008 Beginning!  
We are new to both American
Blackbelly and Painted Desert
Sheep, but please don't
dismiss us.  We are NOT new
to breeding quality livestock!  
We love developing a strong
breeding program and are
very health and quality
conscious.  We have raised
Arabians and Section B
Welsh Ponies in the past, but
after returning to college in
2000 and starting a new
career, the intense handling
of foals and showing was too
much.  It was difficult, but we
sold out most of our herd in
2005.  Some of the successful
ponies born here will be
posted on our horses page in
the future as well as our
current riding horses.

It didn't take long to miss our
hobby and after visiting an
uncle in Texas we fell in love
with his Boer goats and
American Blackbelly Sheep.  

After a lot of discussion on
what would work well with our
careers and family we made
the decision to start out with a
small number of quality
American Blackbelly Sheep.  
We started doing all the
research we could on the
Internet due to a lack of farms
located in Northern Minnesota
and ultimately  made several
purchases from across the
states.  In this research we
also discovered the Painted
Desert Sheep and added a
few to our farm.  We are now
one year into our program
and loving it!  Please enjoy
browsing our web pages!!  
BRASS
Blackbelly & Painted Desert
Sheep
BRASS
WELCOME to our farm!  We are
dedicated to confirmation and
quality as well as breed standard.  
We will strive improve the breed
with dedication to breeding large
bodied strong and full of
substance.  We love to travel and
plan to do so to continually
improve our herds.

BBSAI and open records:  
We maintain strict breeding
records and most of our American
Blackbelly are registered with the
Barbados Blackbelly Sheep
Association International.  We
have a strict buyer beware policy
and welcome any buyer to look at
breeding records as well as any
individual sheep record.

We will be working to keep our
stock as natural as we can in a
captive habitat.  We have recently
started our goats on a regimen of
Diatomaceous Earth which is an
all natural parasite elimination
program.  Diatomaceous Earth is
not only healthy for animals, but is
consumed by humans as well.
*****Our flock is registered with the Minnesota Board of Animal Health as
part of the National Scrapie Eradication Program.  
NOTE:  There has never been a known case of Scrapie in American
Blackbelly or Painted Desert Sheep Breeds.
MEET
BUCKWHEAT AT
1 & 1/2 YEARS.

HE IS A FIZZGIGG
SON AND ONE
OF OUR HERD
SIRES (BORN
4/02/2007)

We have no idea how old Chester is. We purchased this never
been brushed mess for $30 and will never complain.  Joel had
me by one arm pulling me out the back door of the sales barn
and I had the other in the air.   After Chester and I had a couple
disagreements and two full days of cutting and brushing,
Chester is here to stay.  He loves the sheep, hates the dogs,
and has to check out everything we do.  Joel frequently turns
around while feeding to have two big eyes meet his
own...sometime a so close it is a little freaky.