About the Wee Croft

"Wee Croft" is a Scottish term we first heard in Shetland.  It means "little farm."    My husband Larry and I thought this was an appropriate name for our small eight acre farm which is located in the rolling hills of southeastern Wisconsin.   The Wee Croft is home to a flock of 20 registered Finnsheep, 2 horses ( a Lippitt Morgan mare, "Gabriellyn", and a Welsh Cob gelding, "Tubby"), 2 Great Pyrenees guard dogs that live in with the sheep, a llama, numerous chickens, 3 dogs (a Border collie, a Bearded Collie and a Scotch Collie), 2 cats and 2 parrots.    It has been my lifelong goal to live on a farm and now in my middle age, I am living my dream.

 My start with sheep began in the early 1990's when I "collected" several different breeds of sheep to form a little "handspinner's" flock.   Because I was and am very interested in traditional folk knitting I soon decided to narrow down my sheep breeds to two: Shetland sheep and Finnsheep. I wanted to use these wools in my traditional, ethnic knitting designs.   After several years of raising 2 distinct breeds and maintaining several different groups of sheep throughout the year, I realized I could not do justice to two breeds and opted to focus solely on Finnsheep.    I found the Finnsheep to be very docile,  easy- keepers and loved their soft, lustrous wool!    I was also particularly interested in this breed because of their maternal traits and their exceptional ability to produce and raise a number of offspring in a single lambing.

Here, at the Wee Croft, we have been raising Finnsheep since 1994. For details about our breeding program, please see the page entitled breeding stock.