Author: fourfarmdogs

Offered for sale as a commercial  Katahdin ewe with ewelamb at side $575

Pretty white yearling ewe. Solid EBVs across the board, though weaker on parasite resistance. Sire traces back to USDA ram from Booneville AR, Lynn Fahrmeier (MO), Aspen Mountain (Aileen Scott, M T) and Birch Cove (David Coplen, MO). 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

She has a white ewelamb at side and they can go together for this price before the end of June, after that the price will go up.

Photo from May 2026.

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

Pretty white yearling ewe. Solid EBVs across the board. Sire traces back to USDA ram from Booneville AR, Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko, Moses Lake, now retired), Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, DVM, Iowa) and Birch Cove (David Coplen, MO). 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.

She has a white ram lamb at side and they can go together for this price before the end of June, after that the price will go up.

Photo from May 2026.

Offered for sale as a commercial  Katahdin ewe $275

White 6-year-old ewe with brown freckles. She’s had trouble with lamb survival in recent years, and may have a partial PPT tear that would make her unsuitable for breeding again, but she is healthy and will make a good pet/lawnmower.

Photo from May 2026.

Offered for sale as a commercial  Katahdin ewe $275

White 5-year-old ewe in great shape. She has half an udder damaged from prior years’ mastitis and is not able to raise twins, so selling her at cull price. She could be bred again if you are prepared to orphan rear when she has more than one lamb.

Photo from May 2026.

Offered for sale as a purebred commercial Katahdin ewe $300

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.

Offered for sale as a purebred register-able Katahdin ewe $350

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.

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ewe $300.00

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.

Offered for sale as a purebred registered Katahdin ewe  $275

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.

I had listed her for sale as a regular breeding ewe, but realized in Aug bag check at weaning that she’s got some lumps from subclinical mastitis. This may limit her milk productivity in future years, so marking her as a pet. She can still be bred, but be prepared to bottle feed if she has twins.

Photo taken May 2026.  EBVs from 2026 crop birth data. This ewe’s lamb is weaned and she can go to a new home any time.

Offered for sale as a commercial non-breeding Katahdin ewe $275

White 2-year-old ewe in great shape. She did not lamb as a yearling (which is not uncommon) but is also open this year, confirmed by blood test in April (she did mark by a ram in November.) She is not likely to breed in the future, so selling at/below cull/ mutton price. She can go to a new home any time. She would make a nice pasture pet or herding flock matriarch.

Photo from May 2026.

Offered for sale as a commercial non-breeding Katahdin ewe $275

Really flashy, big-framed chocolate and white ewe with long white socks. Three years old. She had twins as a yearling, missed a pregnancy last ear, and then again this year; and has blood-tested open in April. So she is not likely to breed again. She can go to a new home any time. She would make a nice pasture pet or herding flock matriarch.

Photo from May 2026.