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Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ewelamb $200

Cute white ewelamb with a couple of orange spots. Her mother is older and one side of her udder isn’t working well, so I’ve orphan-reared this girl. She is trained to the teat bucket and is completely self-sufficient. Dam is from Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri). Sire is a “loaner” ram from the USDA Research Station in Booneville, AR; and we are lucky to have him up in the PNW, sharing good NSIP genetics from the Midwest and South. He brings genetics from Lee Wright and Lynn Fahrmeier, as well as more Birch Cove. A complete “out of town” pedigree!  She has very balanced EBVs, good on growth, prolificacy and milk; this girl is likely to be a solid twinner that grows great lambs. 

Photo from May 2021.   EBVs from 2021 lamb crop data. Price good through mid-June when she is weaned from milk. She will need to be creep-fed on grain concentrate and/or alfalfa hay until she’s 3-4 months old and her rumen is fully matured to be only on grass or grass hay.

Offered for sale as a pet Katahdin ewe $275

This is a pretty red ewe with white markings, white tail, and long hind socks.  She is fairly petite. Her dam is out of very old-stock PNW genetics, sire is from Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, DVM, in Iowa). This girl has had enough problems with losing full and pre-term fetuses and having weak newborns that I don’t think she should be bred again, I think her womb environment is compromised. Thus she is priced as a pet. Lambing record starting as a yearling: 2/2, 1/1, 1/0, 2/0, 2/1/ 3/1.

Photo taken May 2022. EBVs from 2022 lamb crop PWWT data and includes the new Genomics run calculations, and this ewe has been genotyped.  This ewe can go to a new home in June when her lamb is weaned.

Offered for sale as a purebred, registered Katahdin ewe $400 with ram lamb at side 

This ewe has a classic body type, big capacity for grass feeding. She is white with brown spots and flecking. Pedigree is some old PNW genetics that aren’t around much anymore: Just Plain Sheep, and Bert Martineau’s line, plus KRK. One side of her udder is not very functional, presumably due to subclinical mastitis last  year. Her lambs were hungry and I was supplementing them, but one of them died fast from clostridium at a couple weeks old. The remaining lamb is doing fine now raised as a single by her. I am selling her at cull price, but she could be bred again, as long as the buyer is prepped to bottle supplement her lambs when she has twins. She’s a sweet and mellow girl and a very good mother. She has very balanced EBVs, good growth, reasonable prolificacy and good milk.   Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/1, 2/2, 3/3, 2/2, 2/2, 2/1

Photo taken May 2021. EBVs from 2021 lamb crop birth data. Price, through June, is for ewe with her solid chocolate ram lamb at side (sire is BC H 974), and includes the ewe’s registration cert. The ram lamb is sold as commercial (or for $100 more for registration paperwork, now or later).

Offered for sale as a purebred, registered Katahdin ewe $250

This girl is a grass machine, with a very pretty dark mahogany, white blaze and socks. She is out of old PNW genetics that aren’t around much anymore. She has been very productive here, but the last few years, I’ve noticed a decline in her milk production. She had triplets this year, and hasn’t been entirely successful at even feeding one, despite her best efforts. So she can either go into retirement as a pet, or give someone a few more good ewelambs, as long as they are bottle supplemented. She is extremely maternal and looks after her lambs carefully, even if they are mostly nursing from the bucket.  She is also very calm and easy to handle. She has very balanced EBVs, good growth, reasonable prolificacy and good milk.   Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/1, 3/2, 3/3, 1/1, 2/2, 1/1, 3/0

Photo taken May 2021 (still in the process of shedding, but she is a very clean shedder). EBVs from 2021 lamb crop birth data. This ewe can go to a new home any time, as her lambs are all orphan-rears at this point.

Offered for sale as a purebred, registered Katahdin ewe $250

Pretty and sleek mahogany ewe with white blaze, bracelet and tail. This girl has served me well, I used one of her sons extensively as a sire, and she has produced very nice lambs every year. Last winter she grew thin and struggled, I brought her into the barn and treated her with everything I could think of, and she bounced back and looks great now. She didn’t hold a pregnancy this year, I assume due to being in such poor shape during breeding and winter. I think she will probably breed again fine and could keep producing into her teens, at a small farm that feeds her well. But I’ve priced her at cull price, and she may also make a fine pasture pet. She is very calm. She has very strong growth metrics, but gets dinged for NLB despite twinning most of her life, based on her pedigree data. Lambing record starting as a twp-year old: 2/2, 2/2, 2/2, 1/1, 2/2, 2/2, 0/0.

Photo taken May 2021. EBVs from 2021 lamb crop birth data. This ewe can go to a new home any time.

Offered for sale as a purebred, registered Katahdin ewe $275

White 6-year old ewe with the East Coast body style and curly coat type (but sheds well). Modest growth and milk EBVs, but very high prolificacy: she had quads this year, which is extremely rare or me. Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/1, 2/2, 2/1, 2/2, 3/2, 4/1, 4/2. Sire from Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, DVM, Iowa), dam out of local genetics and White Post Farm (East Coast, now retired), and the old Bert Martineau line.

This ewe has had some wanderin’ lambs in past years, and she can get confused about what’s hers while she’s delivering, so I have ended up orphan rearing a couple, and often have to intervene to make sure she bonds. This is somewhat unusual for such maternal Kats, but I work with it because she’s so productive. In 2023 she had quads, I took two to raise and she accidentally laid on one teeny one, so only raised one. This year she also had quads, and I just let them be mob-reared in the barn. So she nursed 2-3 of them, and some or all also used the teat bucket and also bummed off every ewe they can! They look great.

Despite her having lower growth scores, her lambs always grow like gangbusters; and this body type with the short coat always really shows off the muscling, they are very framey. I like this ewe but am selling her because her index is starting to be on my lower end. She’ll be a good middle aged mama for a  starter flock and should have many more years left to lamb. Photo taken September 2023. EBVs from 2023 lamb crop WWT data. Her lambs are weaned and she’s ready to go to a new home today!

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin yearling ewe $350

Flashy, slick chocolate pinto/ panda-faced ewe. These colors are hard to get in a ewe! Good growth, milk and survival scores, modest on prolificacy. Diverse, pedigree has Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko, Moses Lake, retired), Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, DVM, Iowa), local KRK and Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri). 

Photo taken May 2021.   EBVs from 2021 lamb crop data. This ewe is open, fat and sassy, and ready to breed this fall!

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin yearling ewe $300

Robust, white ewe. Really good growth and milk scores, modest on prolificacy. Diverse, pedigree has Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko, Moses Lake, retired), Aspen Mountain Farm (Aileen Scott, Montana),  and Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri). Some Carl Ginapp genetics in here too, which is bittersweet, as he lost much of his flock in a devastating winter barn collapse and sold out the remaining sheep. 

Photo taken May 2021, she’s still in the process of shedding, but will be a clean shedder.   EBVs from 2021 lamb crop data. This ewe is open and ready to breed this fall!

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin yearling ewe $300

Pretty, feminine white ewe. Moderate growth and prolificacy scores, but good on milk and survival. Diverse pedigree has Aspen Mountain Farm (Aileen Scott, Montana), Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, DVM, Iowa) and Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri), plus other good Midwest NSIP genetics. 

Photo coming soon, she’s still in the process of shedding, but will be a clean shedder.   EBVs from 2021 lamb crop data. This ewe is open and ready to breed this fall!

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin yearling ewe $300

Pretty, feminine white ewe. Good growth, milk and survival scores, ok on prolificacy, she’ll likely always be a twinner. Diverse, pedigree has Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko, Moses Lake, retired), Aspen Mountain Farm (Aileen Scott, Montana), local KRK genetics, and Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri). 

Photo taken May 2021, she’s still in the process of shedding, but will be a clean shedder.   EBVs from 2021 lamb crop data. This ewe is open and ready to breed this fall!