KELLY HAIR SHEEP

Kelly Hair Sheep is owned and operated by Coltin, Kathryn, Brisco and Harper Black, located in Zephyr, Texas. Kelly Hair Sheep was established about 10 years ago right after their show goat operation was dispersed. They began their herd with a set of commercial ewes acquired from Hodges in Sterling City and quickly began to love raising hair sheep. Their mothering abilities, hardiness and feed conversion was incredible and they were soon hooked. After being in the show goat industry for many years, the family went looking to strengthen the quality of their commercial flock. Their searches took them all over the country searching for outliers of the Dorper breed. The unique individuals they acquired from breeders such as Roeder, Kohls, Hamilton Sheep Station, Wildcat and Powell played right into their hand and family’s history of breeding distinctive livestock. From those early years the family has maintained an extensive closed flock utilizing line breeding of some of the highest quality Dorpers and White Dorpers in the industry.

Creating breeding stock is of high priority for their future accolades but there is no questioning that Kelly Hair Sheep places their highest level of attention in producing show lambs for the youth as market lamb projects. Both Coltin and Kathryn were brought up in the stock show industry and their children are following their footsteps. Their son, Brisco, is at the beginning of a highly successful career within the ring. “The values taught and lessons that are learned are second to none for our younger generation.” That being said Coltin and Kathryn have been at the forefront of progressively growing the Dorper market wether sector across the United States by producing wethers that are of good quality, easy to feed and appealing to that customer base. In the early years they spent countless hours working with a multitude of associations and stock show committees to include Dorpers in their venue. The perception has been extremely positive and the growth has been steadily rising abroad not just with youth participation but countless influential stockmen jumping on board to produce Dorpers for the show industry. Each year they do an extensive keep/cull process on their female base but have grown their flock to 200+/females. They run both registered and commercial Dorpers and White Dorpers. They offer the vast majority of their sheep for sale through online sales and select private treaty offerings at the ranch in Texas. “Our goal is to offer the public something unique and that is hard to come by elsewhere.”

The Black’s are passionate about their Dorper program and the direction in which it is going. Coltin and Kathryn typically have sheep for sale year-round and encourage visitors to stop by at any time to tour their operation. Their sheep have certainly garnished the highest of achievements and a lot of attention. Kelly Hair Sheep continues as any successful operation should, one satisfied customer at a time.