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Dawnwinds58 hinted at it already, but I've had the best luck in terms of not needing to worm with purebred Blackbellies and (in the NW, anyway) the Katahdin lines that are more compact/beefier and have wool like a bristle-brush mat. The willowy ones with the curly coats don't seem to fare quite so well during the damp, warm springtime. It's rough for close-grazing critters in a wet environment.
I don't know how much you folks do in terms of field rotation and making sure everything's well-drained, but that definitely helps keep the worm population down to where they can fight it on their own, too.
When it comes to hooves, the Blackbellies can't be beat in my experience. The strongest hooves in my flock are on the two Blackbellies and the Blackbelly mix.
As to the original topic: my farm will always have a free-range, motley crew of Australorps, Ameraucanas, and mixes of the two. I don't know why I have the best luck with that flock mix, but I do. Ducks, too, since it's wet here and they do well in it. A bare minimum of goats to keep the brush down (not too fond of goats), plenty of sheep, meat rabbits, maybe some turkeys... those are more of a luxury, though. Turkeys are hard to keep alive with all the wildlife around here!
If you know any sensible breeders of Blackbellies somewhere closer to Kentucky I sure would love the contacts to them? They're good solid sheep, vigorous and have the added fiber. It doesn't hurt that they're darn goodlookin' too. I think multispecies pasture rotation works the best if you have good pasture. Most parasites are species-selective. You run what is not sensitive to what was previously in the field. Dry pasture is better for any hooved animal.
Not from your post but another I just remembered, if you are going to keep a horse, be careful of the bloodlines of any breed you choose. There are good keepers and bad keepers of them all. I have Tennessee Walking Horses for smoothness, tractibility, and even gait, but two are Midnight Sun blood and get fat looking at feed sacks stacked by the tack room. The Pusher-bred mare always looked like an abuse victim taking in all the hay I can push into her and grain twice a day. I hear *itchin' from the other two everytime I feed her 'cause they would look like hippos on steroids if I fed them the same way. She just isn't a good keeper. Everybody gets wormed and vaccinated and all the vet says is "It's a thing in the Pusher bloodlines." I'm stuck because she's my grandaughter's horse, been hers since my granddaughter was 5 years old. She's 8 now. The mare is only 10.
I don't raise turkeys as I never had any luck with them, but I raise Black Jersey Giants. They have a great trait, well, great to me but others may not think so. They grow slow and get tall and gangly first, growing bone before body. It gives them time to have the bone to support their larger weight. They get pretty darn big, enough for one roaster to feed my family. We'll hatch out what we need, give them the year to grow, and butcher in the fall on a hog-type schedule. We only keep our breeders through the winter. For fryers and eggs we keep Buff Orpingtons. We have 3 odd Australorps, a pair of Cherry Eggers, and a single lonely barred black hen with no clue to which breed she is. No pic of any breed has as much black as she does on her. I was told she was a Wyandotte but all the pics I find have a heavier mix of white in their feathers. She's a good one though. She'll eat grass out of my littlest grandson's hand which earned her a 'to keep' spot.
Are these the sheep you're looking for?
http://www.blackbellysheep.org/directory.html
