Posts by fourfarmdogs

Reference Ram “Lucky”

This is KMC 19098 “Lucky”. Why does he look so happy in this picture? Because he was accidentally recorded and tagged as a ewe at birth by the interns. He snuck around with this false identity until nearly the end of October in 2019, at which time, he’d bred about 40% of my ewes! 😀 He is a good ram, but using him this year was not part of my plans, as I’d just spent a lot of money flying in two new rams to use. So it was a bit of a curve ball to deal with, and I’m going to have a two-month-long lambing season. But here we are, Mother Nature constantly humbles us. On the plus side, we can declare his breeding prowess as quite strong, as in a month, he managed to cover a much larger number of ewes than one would normally expected for a ram lamb. His pedigree is a very nice, diverse blend of my own NSIP genetics, now-retired Misty River Farm, Birch Cove (Missouri) and Aspen Mountain (Montana), with a splash of KRK in the background. He has positive growth, very good milk, and good prolificacy, including a high survival metric. I think he’s going to throw some nice, vigorous lambs and good replacement ewes, I just wish he didn’t have quite as much, er, opportunity to dominate this year’s lamb crop!

EBVs below are from 2019 PWWT lamb crop data.

Offered for sale as a registered 5-year old ewe, exposed, $450

This is a very standard ewe, white with a big brown spot on her shoulder and a really nice hair coat. She is out of a blend of PNW genetics, including the now-retired Misty River Farm. She has strong growth and milk scores, a little weaker on prolificacy, due to…. She lost a lamb her first  year to clostridium, which is not her fault. Her second year, she rejected a twin, partly due to some chaos at the time she gave birth and another ewe that granny’ed it. But she did great with her twins this year and is generally very laid-back and maternal. Her lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/0, 2/1, 1/1, 2/2

EBVs from the 2019 lamb crop PWWT data. Photo taken October 2019. This ewe has been exposed to KMC 7045 and is due to lamb in April.

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $425

Elegant tall, white ram with a black spotted nose. Positive EBVs across the board. He combines genetics from Thistle Grove Farm (Iowa), White Post Farm (East Coast), Birch Cove Farm (Missouri), and the now-retired Misty River Farm in Eastern WA. Let this guy go to work on your farm today!

EBVs from the 2019 lamb crop PWWT data. Photo taken September 2019. This ram is weaned and ready to start breeding this fall.

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb, $375

A flashy buckskin pinto ram with a really nice, short AA coat that has already shed this year. Positive EBVs across the board. Diverse pedigree that pulls in Birch Cove Farm (Missouri), Thistle Grove Farm (Iowa), Aspen Mountain (Montana) and a few older, local genetics. Lots of color in this pedigree as well!

EBVs from the 2019 lamb crop PWWT data. Photo taken September 2019. This ram is weaned and ready to start breeding this fall.

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb, $425

White ram with positive EBVs across the board; he’ll make a good terminal sire or will throw good replacement ewes as well. Diverse pedigree incorporating Birch Cove Farm, now-retired Misty River Farm, and some KRK genetics.

EBVs from the 2019 lamb crop PWWT data. Photo taken September 2019. This ram is weaned and ready to start breeding this fall.

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb, $375

A pretty red ram with solid growth and milk numbers, good prolificacy and moderate on survival EBVs. Lots of color in this pedigree, grabbing some genetics from Mary Bakko’s now-retired Misty River Farm plus a lot of my own top maternal lines. This will be a good flock sire for someone’s homestead!

EBVs from the 2019 lamb crop PWWT data. Photo taken September 2019. This ram is weaned and ready to start breeding this fall.