Author: fourfarmdogs

Offered for sale as a purebred commercial Katahdin ewe with ram lamb at side $520

Cute red spotted ewe. Pedigree traces back to Birch Cove Farm (David Coplen, MO), the USDA Research Station in Booneville, AR, and Gibraltar Farm in New York (Etienne and Isabel Richards) plus my/local genetics. Really nice EBVs across the board. Caveat: this ewe  had entropion (inverted eyelids) as a lamb, which is lowly heritable, so I’m selling her unregistered as a commercial ewe and discounted. When these crop up, they are easily fixed with a penicillin injection below the eyelid, but it’s an inconvenience to deal with this, so we try to breed away from it. She will make a fine productive ewe on a small farm, and bred to a diverse sire, this issue may never recur in her lambs.

Photo taken May 2026.  EBVs from 2026 crop birth data. This ewe can go with her red spotted ram lamb as commercial before the end of June. Price will go up after that.

Offered for sale as a purebred register-able Katahdin ewe with ram lamb at side $570

Cute red ewe with white markings and a black beauty mark. Pedigree traces back to Birch Cove Farm (David Coplen, MO), the USDA Research Station in Booneville, AR, and Gibraltar Farm in New York (Etienne and Isabel Richards) plus my/local genetics. Really nice EBVs across the board.

Photo taken May 2026.  EBVs from 2026 crop birth data. This ewe can go with her ram lamb as commercial before the end of June  (she bred late so I do not know the sire of this lamb). Or she can be sold solo when her lamb is weaned in August.

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ewe with twin ewelambs at side $850

Very productive four year old ewe, with red tick markings. Most of her pedigree is out-of-state; Birch Cove Farm (David Coplen, MO) and Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, DVM, Iowa). I’m dropping her because of her high FEC score, but she is otherwise very productive with good growth and milk scores and very high prolificacy. I don’t normally let ewes raise quadruplets on their own, but this girl has. She was raising triplets and let a 4th lamb move in with them and she was able to feed them all, on grass alone, in 2025. Lambing record starting as a two year old:  1/1, 2/1, 3/4, 2/2.

Photo taken May 2026.  EBVs from 2026 crop birth data. This ewe can go with her register-able twin ewelambs (both white, sired by KMC 24127) at side before end of June for $900. Price will go up after that and/or when her lambs are weaned.

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ewe with ram lamb at side $495

This is a good 7 YO mama who still has quite a few productive years left. Red with white tail and hind socks, clean shedder. Her sire traces back to the now-retired Misty River line and Birch Cove Farm in Missouri. Dam traces back to Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare DVM, Iowa) and has a Dorper way back in her maternal pedigree. She has positive growth and milk scores, more modest on prolificacy and not strong on parasite resistance. Her overall scores and index are a little low, which is why she’s finally dropping out of my system as mature gal; so she is discounted. If she doesn’t sell I’ll breed her again this fall, as she is still productive. Lambing record starting as a two year old:  1/1, 1/1, 1/1, 2/2, 1/1.

Photo taken May 2026.  EBVs from 2026 crop birth data. This ewe can go with her red spotted ram lamb (unregistered, could come register-able for a  higher fee) at side before end of June for $495. Price will go up after that and/or when her lamb is weaned.

Offered for sale as a register-able Katahdin ewelamb $300

Cute white ewelamb. Dam hearkens to local genetics plus the USDA Research Station in Booneville, AR. Sire is from North Carolina State University and captures genetics from Roxanne Newton (GA), Lee Wright (VA) and the USDA Research Station. A very diverse pedigree from around the US. This girl has more modest EBVs for growth, parasite resistance, and milk, but her prolificacy is strong.

EBVs from 2026 lamb crop BWT data. Photo taken April 2026. This lamb’s dam doesn’t seem to have enough milk for two, probably due to past mastitis, and this lamb was happy to befriend the teat bucket and become an orphan-rear.  $250 if purchased while still needing milk, before 6/20; or $300 thereafter. She will need to be on creep feed through mid August after which she can be weaned onto pasture alone.