Effective December 1, 2007, Odd Duck Farm and the adjacent Thomas Farm were designated as a Certified Organic Dairy Farm. This completes a more than three year transistion process. Milk will be marketed under the Stonyfield brand label. Organic beef, when available, will be marketed privately. Please use the e-mail form on this site to obtain more information on organic beef offerings.

Overlooking the Hudson River to the west, with a distant view of the monument commemorating the turning point of the American Revolution, Odd Duck Farm is being positioned as one of the premier Brown Swiss breeding farms in the northeast. Spanning over 600 acres of pasture, agricultural fields, streams and woods, Odd Duck Farm is aligned with The Thomas Farm to the east and managed by Lloyd and Tammy Thomas.

The farm was a Washington County dairy and sheep farm for over 150 years. Located in Easton, NY the farm was purchased in 2002 by the Hedbring family and organized under OESH, LLC d/b/a Odd Duck Farm. The decision to currently invest and breed the Brown Swiss cow evolved from prior visits to Switzerland where the Braunvieh breed www.braunvieh.com was observed with much interest and admiration.

The Brown Swiss foundation herd was purchased on a highly selective basis by Odd Duck Farm. The primary focus of the Farm is to breed new calves through carefully managed genetic selection. Some of the elite herd is shown annually and is available for sale directly from Odd Duck Farm as well as through periodic offerings at auctions. Male calves are offered for sale as oxen or raised as steers. A few select bulls will be available for sale as herd sires. The foundation herd is targeted to average 50 head.

Along with the natural beauty of the land, Odd Duck Farm includes three rental homes, a fully enclosed, well-ventilated 38 pen calf barn for newborn to yearlings. Depending on age, size and weather, the Brown Swiss are moved to outside pastures with another separate but adjacent barn where breeding age heifers are artificially inseminated. When heifers are confirmed pregnant they are moved to the “half-mile” barn and pastures until one month prior to calving at which time the heifers are relocated to The Thomas Farm. The cycle continues with the new born calves being transferred to the Odd Duck Farm calf barn.

Odd Duck Farm is involved with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Quality Deer Management Program. The farm grows and sells top quality small square bales of hay and alfalfa to many local dairy and horse farms. It also has a well developed locust grove that is selectively harvested for fence posts.