Chapel Hill Farm

Chapel Hill Farm raises Randall lineback cattle in Berryville, Virginia, on several hundred acres of rolling Shenandoah Valley land roughly 65 miles west of Washington, D.C. Joe Henderson, a former strategy consultant, purchased the property in 1999 and in the early 2000s brought the first Randalls to Virginia from New England, working from a founding group of animals with direct lineage to the original Randall family herd.

The farm's core focus is the conservation and careful propagation of a critically endangered American landrace breed. To manage the limited gene pool, Henderson worked with geneticists at Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine to establish a structured breeding program, dividing the herd into five separate family groups and maintaining a genetic database to preserve ancestral diversity. A combination of strict breeding protocols and embryo transfer has allowed the herd to grow substantially from its original handful of animals. The majority of Chapel Hill Farm's Randall linebacks are registered with the Randall Lineback Breed Association, and each female receives a fertility rating drawn from detailed maternal records.

All cattle spend their entire lives on pasture, grass-fed and free-range, with no added hormones or unnecessary antibiotics. Hundreds of acres of the farm are also set aside for wildlife rehabilitation, restoring native grasses, insects, and birdlife to the Virginia countryside. For those seeking Randall lineback cattle in Virginia from a program with documented breed-recovery history, Chapel Hill Farm represents one of the most established herds of this rare breed in the country.

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Species	Cattle Lineback
Website	www.randalllineback.com
Email	RandallLineback@gmail.com
Phone	+1 540-773-2688
Owner	Joe Henderson
Location	Berryville VA, United States, US