— The Openherd Team
ALBA has moved!!!We now call the Pacific Northwest our home, and we have grown from five to twenty seven acres. Elkton Oregon has everything thing our herd needs to thrive along the Umpqua river. Fleece is still the name of the game at ALBA. Our Herdsires are producing some wonderful youngsters with great fleece to go with there phenotype and pedigree. Our foundation in fineness has never changed we have just added density and staple length over the years.Scott is our ranch manager and with over 20 years of large and small animal husbandry experience he is uniquely qualified to care for our herd as well as the other animals on our ranch. Monet is our fiber artist and like her namesake is especially skilled in her artistic abilities. We are a small ranch focused on genetics and specializing in color breeding with soft handle fleece. We only breed our best girls with outstanding males as a best practice to achieve our goals. We focus on fleece characteristics and plan our breedings years in advance to achieve the highest level of comfort in our end products.Our Stud row now has some fantastic males in some great colors not just grey.Snow Diamond Sherlock ALBAS Golden prince of MatrixRR Lorenzo GreysALBAS Zeus ALBA Apollo JUNUS grey fox If you would like to visit the beautiful Umpqua valley and arrange a farm tour please contact us.
Over ten years of producing comfort in all colors