Oberon Farm
CT Wagyu’s primary home is Oberon Farm in Preston, CT. Preston is a relatively quiet small town neighbor to Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods, two of the largest casinos in the world. Oberon Farm was created when Tim’s mother Karen and sister Erin purchased adjoining parcels of land in the center of Preston to keep their horses at home. In addition to CT Wagyu’s herd Oberon Farm is presently home to Kristen's Zora's Farm and Friend's flock of White Dorper sheep, Erin's retired horses Sara, a Palomino Quarter horse and Redford, her off track Thoroughbred.
Our old man Landseer Newfoundland, Breaker
Erin's Bernese Mtn Dog, Lyric, the Princess. You may see photos of her boy Bunsen whom we lost to cancer in 2024 on here and in our older social media as he absolutely loved being a farm dog, he even had his certification.
Tim's Newfoundland, Beck and now to hopefully guard the sheep the newest family member Grizzly, a Karakachan Livestock Guardian Dog.
Not to be forgotten our smallest four members of the family, Kristen's cats. her old man Seinfeld loves everyone but stays out of sight of our visitors. Zora, the name sake of Kristen's farming LLC and Cosmo a gift from Tim can often be seen supurrvising from a window as can Jack occasionally.
Horses
Sara and Redford share Oberon Farm with our Wagyu. They typically participate in lower level dressage, jumping and cross country competitions with Erin
Wagyu
As of Summer 2024 our Wagyu breeding herd consists of ten Fullblood 100% Wagyu and three percentage Wagyu. The percentage wagyu are being used as embryo recipients along with local dairy cows to help grow the size of our Fullblood Wagyu herd.
Chickens
We currently only have a couple of layers having lost our original layers over the last two years. Many made it more then eight years with a couple nearly hitting ten! We often debate starter up the flock again and I'm sure we will at some point but we are currently focusing on the wagyu and sheep.
The dogs!
Having always had dogs as pets, now is no different. We currently count one Landseer Newfoundland, Breaker; a Bernese Mtn Dog, Lyric, pictured here is her brother Bunsen; and an all black Newfoundland, Beck as members of our family.
Local feed
Something we are quite proud of is our support of other local farms. From our first layers we’ve focused on feeding quality feeds. When we started the Wagyu herd it was important that we continue with that. We were very fortunate to connect with a local grain farm who also mills and sells both standard and custom feed rations. We purchase their NonGMO chicken feeds and also utilize the same corn and soy for portions of our custom Wagyu rations. When you factor in the local sources of our hay, 98% of our feed is grown within 30 miles of the farm! An update, we are currently feeding a conventional corn silage as part of the Wagyu ration.
A new venture for 2026
Zoras Farm & Friends is Kristen's farming LLC, she has been dabbling in Wagyu but jumped in fully this spring with the purchase of a small flock of White Dorper sheep. Just ask her about Moose when you see her! She also partnered with a local hog farm to bring Berkshire pork to our freezers for this summer market season with the hope of raising her own feeders next year.
The Cats!
Ill try to share some photos of the cats here shortly
How we grade our beef
The Carcass Camera
We knew early on that we wanted to focus on meat production with our Wagyu. Our goal stated simply is to produce the highest grades of Wagyu, consistently. To document that journey, we made the investment early on in a cellphone based carcass camera system. Thanks to the advances in cell phone cameras, their onboard processing power and the ability to harness cloud based computing we are able to image and receive complete assessment reports in moments. When we quote a carcass as being a certain BMS score it is based on this technology and audited by our family with old fashioned flash cards.
Quality control
We also perform audits of the camera through the use of modern old fashioned flashcards depicting the different BMS scores.
