Rancho Del Sol is a family run ranch raising registered Navajo Churro and is located  in beautiful Paso Robles, CA wine country. We have over 50 head of quality animals with many fine animals for sale. Rancho Del Sol has 5 breeding rams and 21 breeding ewes, all are registered and selected for their wool and conformation.   We can help put together a starter flock or make recommendations to improve the quality of animals in an existing flock.

History of the Navajo Churro: Over 400 years ago, Spanish explorers and settlers brought their native sheep, the Churra, to this country. In the 1500's, the Dine' (Navajo people) acquired a few sheep which they nurtured and raised. The sheep name had also been changed to Churros. In the 1930's the Dine' had over 574,821 sheep on their reservations but then our government decided to reduce their flocks by 30%. The government also introduced a program to "improve" the Churros by crossing them with other types of sheep. By the 1970's only around 500 head remained of the original Churros.

A Cal Poly professor went to the reservations and rounded up many of the "old type" Churro sheep and brought them back to San Luis Obispo, CA for a breeding/research program. He returned many animals back to the Dine' for continued nurturing and development. In the 1980's, a registry and association were formed called the Navajo-Churro Sheep Association. Today there are over 5000 sheep registered across the US but they are still considered threatened by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy. 

Member: Navajo Churro Sheep Association and the Voluntary Scrapies Program of California.
All our animals are raised naturally without hormones or chemicals plus we follow organic and biodynamic principles.

This flock tests negative for :
Johne's disease
Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis
OPP-Ovine Progressive Pneumonia
CAE-Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis
CL-Caseous Lymphadenitis