Rhea Farms

11/05/2026

Have extra pumpkins you are about to throw out? Please donate them to our sheep!

If you live in Oakland/Central area, we would love to have them! You can drop them at the end of our driveway (3575 CR 15) or PM me if you have multiple pumpkins you want to donate, I will try to pick them up from you!

10/31/2026

Happy National Hug a Sheep Day! We never pass up the chance to snuggle our Babydolls.

🐑 What is Hug a Sheep Day? 🐑

It is a unique celebration that brings people closer to these fluffy, lovable farm animals. It takes place on the last Saturday of every October and has grown into an international event.

Celebrated since the mid-1990s, today aims to offer cuddles and appreciate the significant roles sheep play in our lives, from providing wool for our clothes to contributing to agriculture. It’s a chance to learn more about sheep, their intelligence, and their ability to remember faces for years.

Here are some of our favorite photos of us hugging our sheep! 💕

10/30/2026

We are so excited to be featured in the calendar for the third year in a row! A beautiful photo of Tilly in the snow will be the photo for the month of December. ❤️

Congratulations to our calendar photo contest winners. Their photos make up the NABSSAR's 2027 calendar. Thank you to all of our members who submitted photos. If they didn't make the calendar, take a look at the headers of our website pages. They might be there in the near future.

Cover - Jourdan Anastasia Paup, Paup, Atascadero, CA
January - David & Sarepta Elliott, Southdown Valley Farm, Bentton, KY
February - Katie & Libby Hoving, Drummond Hill Farm, Bristol, ME
March - Alicia & Evelyn Lacher, Lacher Family Farm, Friend, NE
April - Bill & Amy Cook, Rocky Acres Farm, Bixby, OK
May - Robert Barnwell & Judith Anne Fleming, Oak Hill Farm, Oxford, NC
June - Serena & Oaklie Zietz, Z6 Farms, Douglas, ND
July - Michelle Schubert, Bergamascos' Babydoll Bridgade, Frankfort, KY
August - Ingrid Moshier, Southdown Meadows, Castorland, NY
September - Edward, Andrea, & Kason Dean, Dean Acres, Deer Park, WA
October - Wyatt McGlocklin, 5 Star Farms, Brazil, IN
November - Renee Woods, Woods Family Farm, Larkspur, CO
December - Raysha Rhea, Rhea Farms, Florence, AL

Calendars are currently 15% on Zazzle.
Please use this link to order your calendar(s). They make wonderful gifts. https://www.zazzle.com/babydoll_southdown_sheep_2027_calendar-256034441066224828?rf=238392070636007290

Thank you to our independent judges. They had a lot of photos to look at. This year's judges were - Beth Byard, AR; Karen Madsen, WA; Kat Watson, KY; Michelle Hockenberry Worzbyt, PA; & Piglet Evans, NY.

10/30/2026

The sheep were happy that I came home with a trunk full of treats tonight. I sat in the pasture and watched them tear up these pumpkins for a while. They threw them around like toys and fought over the same one even though there were 8 pumpkins in the pasture. 🙃 I sure do love these fluffy babies.

Thank you to UNA’s Business School for always donating the leftover 🎃 from their pumpkin carving event to our farm. 💛

10/28/2026

Proud of my little farm girl getting it done all on her own.

10/22/2026

Meet Lincoln! Lincoln is a wether that was born on our farm in April of last year. He is one of Fiona and Milo’s lambs and is a twin. He looks just like Fiona in the face, but is built just like his dad. His brother, Sterling, lives in the Alabama Wild’s section at The Birmingham Zoo. ❤️

Lincoln is one of many wether’s we have kept at the farm and he is the sweetest boy around. He loves eating carrots and sheep treats with oatmeal straight out of my hand. He also wags his tail like a dog when he is happy.

10/20/2026

Let our sheep out of the pasture for the first time to graze in the yard. Fiona was terrified to touch the concrete. 🤣

10/14/2026

Meet our Sheep! Over the next few weeks we are going to post all of our sheep and fun facts about them. 💕

Today’s post highlights Fiona. Fiona is one of our original ewes on the farm. I drove to Arkansas to pick her and Tilly up in the summer of 2022. Tilly and Fiona have the same dad, but have different moms, so technically they are half sisters. 🤣 And just like sisters, they do not always get along.

Fiona was scared of humans for the first 2 years on the farm. After she gave birth and let me help her and her lambs, she finally decided she could trust me. She recognizes my voice more than any other sheep and if she hears me, even from far away, she starts calling for me. Typically because she wants me to give her a snack.

Fiona loves a good sheep treat, is still scared of 90% of humans, and is the BEST mother on the farm. We almost lost her last year to a terrible battle with barberpole worms, but she bounced back with the right treatment and has been in good shape ever since. She had all black TRIPLETS this spring - 2 girls and 1 boy. ❤️

Picture on the left is this year and picture on the right was her first day on the farm.

10/11/2026

Safe to say Milo is fully locked in and ready for breeding season. Only 5 more days, buddy. 🤣🤦🏽‍♀️

10/06/2026

Obsessed with him.