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Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ewelamb $275

Feminine white ewelamb. Modest growth, good prolificacy and survival, and a phenomenal milk score. Pedigree has Aspen Mountain (Aileen Scott, Montana) ewe and Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko, Moses Lake, retired), as well as KRK genetics (Karen Kenagy, Oregon).

Photo taken September 2020.  EBVs from 2020 lamb crop PWWT data. This ewelamb is weaned and ready to go to a new home today!

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ewelamb $275

Standard white ewelamb. Her growth and milk scores are rather modest, but her prolificacy and survival scores are extremely high, which renders her a pretty good index. She will likely have at least a few triplets in her lifetime, if not a lot of them, and they will be vigorous; but not your fastest growers. Pedigree is mostly my stock, tracing back to Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko, Moses Lake, retired), and On the Lamb Farm (Sara Jo Gahm, Arlington).

Photo taken September 2020.  EBVs from 2020 lamb crop PWWT data. This ewelamb is weaned and ready to go to a new home today!

Offered for sale as a registered 7 year old old ewe, $275 

This is a steady, middle-aged ewe, solid chocolate, good shedder, calm and gentle. She will likely produce a good lamb crop well into her teens. She has been a good producer here, though she is a very quiet/ non-vocal sheep. So if her lambs get separated and start hollering, she won’t necessarily get hysterical and holler back or run to them; she’ll just calmly wait for them to find her. This doesn’t pose a problem on a small acreage with few ewes and lambs, or in a shed-lambing operation. But in big fields with several hundred sheep in a pasture-lambing setting, it can be a recipe for lost lambs. So I’ve had to keep a little bit of an eye on her lambs when they are young, or jug her for a few days in the field to give them a good start. I chose to orphan-rear one of her triplets in 2019 because it was also non-assertive and was not keeping up with her.

This girl has solid and balanced EBVs across the board, I’m only selling her because her index is starting to dip into my lower quartile, and because it’s a little extra work for me to keep an eye on her during lambing. She will be a great foundation ewe for someone starting a small flock. Line-bred on an old Bert Martineau ram, with Just Plain Sheep and a North Dakota State U ram, and some KRK (Oregon) genetics in her pedigree.

Photo taken September 2020. EBVs from 2020 lamb crop 120 day weight data. Lambing records starting as a yearling: 1/1, 2/2, 2/2, 2/2, 3/1 (2 stillborn), 3/2 (1 orphan-reared), 1/1

Offered for sale as a purebred, registered Katahdin ewe $300

Beautiful dark chocolate ewe with a brockle face. Good growth, prolificacy and milk scores. But hurting on survival score, which sources from her sire, so a lot of his daughters are dropping off my keeper list over time. Her dam’s side is stronger. Lambing record starting as a two-year-old: 2/2.

Photo taken August 2020. EBVs from 2020 lamb crop PWWT data. Her lambs are weaned and she is ready to go to a new home today!

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ewelamb $300

Cute white ewelamb, really nice EBVs across the board. This is one of the higher indexing lambs this year and I am keeping her sib, so letting this twinner go. Pedigree has Aspen Mountain (Aileen Scott, Montana) ewe and Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko, Moses Lake, retired), plus Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, DVM, Iowa) and Birch Cove Farm (David Coplen, Missouri).

Photo taken Aug 2020.  EBVs from 2020 lamb crop PWWT data. This ewelamb is weaned and ready to go to a new home today!

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ewelamb $275

White ewelamb, positive EBVs and an especially good survival score. Lower on NLB so isn’t as likely to have triplets. Pedigree has Aspen Mountain (Aileen Scott, Montana) ewe and Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko, Moses Lake, retired), plus Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, DVM, Iowa) and Birch Cove Farm (David Coplen, Missouri).

Photo taken Aug 2020.  EBVs from 2020 lamb crop PWWT data. This ewelamb is weaned and ready to go to a new home today!

Offered for sale as a purebred record-able Katahdin ewelamb $325

Beautiful white ewe with a very nice, short hair coat.  Really strong EBVs across the board, this is one of the nicest ewes here. I’m keeping her sibling and don’t typically retain both in a set of twins, so here’s your opportunity to score a high-indexing ewe out of one of my new rams from Missouri. Note her sire has some Texel in his background, and is an 87.5% recorded ram. He has not shed adequately this year, so I will not be upgrading him (yet). Thus his lambs will also be record-able and eligible for upgrade upon hair coat inspection (which I can do) next summer. This lamb’s coat is likely an A coat, so she will have no problem shedding.  On the maternal side, this lamb captures some really nice genetics from Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, DVM, Iowa) which is another grass-based flock that’s long been active in NSIP. Her dam is one of my top-scoring ewes. This ewe meets the criteria for NSIP Maternal Certified.

Photo taken Aug 2020.  EBVs from 2020 lamb crop PWWT data. This ewelamb is weaned and ready to go to a new home today!

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ewelamb $300

Very pretty, classic white ewe. Good growth and milk scores, positive on survival and more modest on prolificacy, this girl probably won’t have a lot of triplets. Total Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri) breeding, that traces to some of the best NSIP lines in the nation; she is one of the few ewelambs I’m selling out of my two new rams from Missouri. I’m keeping her sibling and my policy is I normally don’t retain both twins, so this one is an opportunity to get a total out-of-state pedigree and some really good NSIP genetics.

Photo taken Aug 2020.  EBVs from 2020 lamb crop WWT data. This ewelamb is weaned and ready to go to a new home today.