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Offered for sale as a commercial Katahdin yearling ewe $240

Orange spotted yearling ewe. For some reason, she has one nostril totally occluded, so she breathes kind of loud. Her ear actually droops on the same side. My vet’s best guess is this might be tissue damage from bot flies, for which we treated with injectable Ivermectin, but perhaps there is scar tissue in there that will never go away. Thus, she will either go on the butcher list this summer, or can go to a pet home (she is priced as a butcher lamb). She could probably be bred, but she may always need kind of a coddled, stress-free life, since obviously any running or respiratory pressure could put her in distress. Currently she is in good weight and otherwise quite healthy. She is a mellow, curious, modest-sized girl that’s easy to handle.

Photo taken May 2021.   This ewe is open (not bred), and can go to a new home any time.

Offered for sale as a purebred, registered Katahdin ewe $700 with lambs at side through  6/30

Mahogany colored ewe, moderate frame size. Positive EBVs but with lower prolificacy, so this girl will likely avoid triplets most of the time. Blend of local genetics, Birch Cove Farm (David Coplen, Missouri), and White Post Farm (East Coast, now retired). Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/1, 1/1, 2/1 (one stillborn twin), 2/2.

Photo taken November 2020. EBVs from 2021 lamb crop birth data. This ewe has gorgeous, beefy twin lambs at side (out of BC H 974); a ram lamb with some red coloring on his neck, and a chocolate ewelamb with a white krunet face marking. Price good through end of June. Current price reflects dam as registered, ewelamb as register-able, and ram lamb as commercial. $100 more (now or later) for ram lamb registration paperwork. Below is a photo with her lambs taken early May (click for larger image).

Offered for sale as a registered Katahdin Ewe (Pet) $250

Very sweet middle aged ewe who comes from a very productive family and has tremendous EBVs for prolificacy and survival. But she is weak on growth and milk; and as she’s aged and her udder has sustained wear ‘n tear, she can no longer raise triplets, though she likes to have them! She is priced at cull/pet price. She will be bred in November, so if you purchase her before she lambs, you’ll be on the hook to bottle supplement them. If she lambs here, I’ll likely let her keep one lamb and will orphan any others, and she could go to a new home in April with whatever lamb she has at side.

Her pedigree has Aspen Mountain Farm (Aileen Scott, Montana) and now-retired White Post farm from the East Coast, as well as other local genetics. Lambing record starting as a yearling: 2/2, 2/2, 2/2, 2/2, 2/2, 3/3, 3/1

Photo taken November 2020. EBVs from the 2020 lamb crop PWWT data. This ewe is being bred now in November, to lamb in April 2021.

Offered for sale as a purebred record-able Katahdin ram $450

Fawn ram with a clean shedding hair coat. Really nice EBVs across the board, good growth, very high prolificacy, survival and milk. This ram will produce both good replacement ewes and fast-growing butcher lambs.

He is out of my newly-purchased white ram from Birch Cove Farm in Missouri (David Coplen); which is a grass-based, minimal input system with a long history of NSIP data. Note that ram 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 already shed as a lamb, so I have no question he will shed again next spring and can be upgraded. For me, this ram’s productivity scores outweigh the shedding drawback in the pedigree, but I have discounted his lambs accordingly. 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; and also Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko, Moses Lake, now retired).

Photo taken November 2020.  EBVs from 2020 lamb crop PWWT data. This ram is ready to go to a new home and start breeding ewes right away.

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 November 2020.  EBVs from 2020 lamb crop PWWT data. This ewe is open and ready to breed this fall to lamb as a two-year-old.

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ewelamb $275, exposed

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 November 2020.  EBVs from 2020 lamb crop PWWT data. This ewe has been exposed to a ram starting 11/8. Rams are wearing marking harnesses, so I will know her breed date. Note that for me, ewelambs have about a 50/50 chance of conceiving in their yearling year, so no guarantees; but plan on feeding her well in case she is bred.

Offered for sale as a registered 7 year old old ewe, $375, exposed

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 November 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
This ewe has been exposed to a ram starting 11/8. Rams are wearing marking harnesses, so I will know her breed date.

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

Pretty, light-framed fawn ewe with white socks, tail, spots and wide blaze. Positive growth and prolificacy, good survival, and a little weak on milk. This girl has stayed lean in my system and I think would thrive better at a small farm where there is less competition and more generous feeding. Pedigree combines genetics from Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare) in Iowa, Misty Oaks Farm (Kathy Bielek, Ohio), White Post Farm (East Coast, now retired), On the Lamb Farm (Sara-Jo Gahm, Arlington), and other local genetics.

Photo taken August 2020. EBVs from 2020 lamb crop PWWT data. This ewe’s lambs are weaned and she’s ready to go to a new home and breed this fall!