Cormo sheep are sweet medium sized sheep with wonderful fine fiber and wrinkly noses. They originated in the 1960's, the product of a scientific breeding experiment of crossing Saxon Super-fine Merinos with Corriedales. The goal was to produce a superior fleece sheep; which they are. Their staple is often 5 to 7 inches in length for a yearly clipping. The crimp is fine and uniform the entire length of the staple. Aestheticly, the fleece is usually not as greasy as a Merinos sometimes can be, and the fiber is unusually soft and lofty. Many people, when first encountering Cormo wool, exclaim that they cannot believe that it is truly wool from a sheep, since it is so soft and lacks scratchiness sometimes associated with sheep's wool. For more specific information about Cormo sheep, please contact the American Cormo Association at www.cormosheep.com.

We have been raising cormos for only a few years now after raising Corriedales and various longwools. While we love all breeds of sheep, we have found the cormo to be our ideal in husbandry and fiber qualities. The fiber is excellent for knitting and felting, and it stays consistent for years. The animal produces more usable, high quality wool than any other breed we have had. PLUS, when covered, the fiber commands premium prices from handspinners and feltmakers. For more info on Cormo fiber and yarns, please click on Fiber in the main menu. The sheep are easy to handle, excellent mothers, and basically easy keepers. If you are looking for a meat sheep, I would not necessarily recommend the cormo. They are smallish sheep and rather slow growing. However, we still get excellent lamb prices with our cormo lambs and our cormo/corriedale crosses in particular.

Please contact us if you are interested in purchasing breeding stock or would like some fleece samples. We currently have yearling ewes and ram and ewe lambs for sale.We were sold on these sheep the first time we encountered one at Maryland Sheep and Wool. If we do not have stock available, we will be happy to recommend a Cormo breeder near your location.