The Rodger Family Farm -- long in the making.
As the parents of our shepherdess, we have been working toward establishing a farm for many years – in part to give our children some of the benefits we feel we had as children who grew up with livestock.
Donalee (Mom) grew up in Boring, Oregon, raising all the typical farm animals, sheep, horses, cows, chickens – even pheasants. She was a 4H girl, training and showing horses. It was a good life and taught her about taking responsibility for another life, another soul.
Robert (Dad) was raised on Arizona clay and Colorado snow. He had horses and burros and his own 4H days. He remembers well how the animals had to come first, since they could not work the well or help themselves to the grain.
Together, after many long years of making job and career choices aimed at supporting a family of seven, they discovered they had a daughter who wanted animals as much as they did. Kyra Lynn Rodger, first fell for Shetland sheep at the Black Sheep Gathering in Eugene, Oregon in 2014. It was not hard at all to twist Mom and Dad’s arm to get our first two, Tapioca and Betty. All our sheep are registered to Kyra under NASSA (North American Shetland Sheep Association).
It’s funny how two ewes can become 20 sheep!