However, the business partnership between The Ross’s and O’Mealy’s dates back nearly 24 years. Over those years, the two have raised many different types of animals including; hogs, cows and several types of horses. At one time they even owned and bred rare draft horses on their farms and were known as Crane Mountain Shires.

Currently, the Farms have mianture horses, guinea hens and even several peacocks, but as of 2002, Mike and Rick turned their focus to more exotic livestock. For the past 8 years, the Farms have been raising fallow and sika deer, as well as, Mouflon and Aoudad sheep. The newest addition to the farm is a small herd of Texas Dall Sheep, but with many spring lambs, the herd is growing quickly! At the present, M&R has almost 200 head of deer and sheep and that number continues to grow each year. For now, the main goal of M&R Farms is to raise a herd large enough to sustain the sale of stock as meat, for hunting trophies and perhaps antler production. In the future, a portion of the Farms property may even be transformed into a shooting preserve, so that sportsman can enjoy hunting these magnificant animals.