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Offered for sale as a purebred  Katahdin ram lamb $400

Nicely put together white ram. Sired by a framey, dark chocolate ram from Birch Cove Farm (David Coplen, Missouri). Dam traces to Thistle Grove Farm (Dr. John Bare, DVM, Iowa)  and a ewe from Birch Cove. Modest prolificacy, positive milk and good growth scores. This ram will make a good terminal sire or to produce replacement ewes that avoid a lot of triplets.

Photo from July 2021.   EBVs from 2021 WWT data. This ram is register-able. He is weaned now due to his dam dying from a fencing accident when he was 90 days old,. He should be creep fed with grain or alfalfa for another month or so to replace what he would have gotten from another month of nursing, and keep his growth and parasite resistance strong.

Offered for sale as a purebred, record-able Katahdin ewelamb $350

Classic white ewelamb. NSIP Maternal Certified designation. Dam is one of my best ewes, from the now-retired Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko, Moses Lake). Sire is a very strong scoring ram from Birch Cove Farm in Missouri (David Coplen).

Sire has a Texel several generations back in his pedigree, so we’re benefitting from some heterosis there, as well as the potential for the myostatin (double muscling) gene. This ram didn’t shed well last year so I haven’t upgraded him yet, but I think this year he might. If he doesn’t, this ewe will be record-able and will need a hair coat inspection next year to upgrade to 100% purebred registration (I am a hair coat inspector, so I can do that for you).

This is one of the best ewelambs born here this year, but I’m keeping her sib, and I don’t usually keep both of twins. She’s got stellar and balanced EBVs across the board, low birth weight, while growth, prolificacy, survival and milk- all are very, very strong! So it’s a nice opportunity to get one of my highest scoring ewelambs into your flock’s genetics.

Photo taken July 2021. EBVs from 2021 lamb crop WWT data. This ewelamb will be weaned mid-August and can go to a new home after that; and she will be ready to breed this fall.

Offered for sale as a purebred, register-able  Katahdin ram lamb $500, genotyped

Beefy chocolate ram with brockle face and white markings. Really strong EBVs across the board, this is the best ram born here this year, he should produce knockout grower lambs as well as strong replacement ewes with high prolificacy and milking. His dam is a mix of local genetics, she came here by way of someone getting out of Katahdins and was a lucky acquisition for me, as her EBVs have been climbing as more of her lamb crop data enters the system. This ram is both NSIP Maternal and NSIP Stud Certified.

This ram’s sire is a very strong ram from David Coplen (Birch Cove Farm, Missouri). This sire has a Texel thee generations back. David’s crossing-in benefits us with heterosis and the double-muscling gene from Texels. The tradeoff is some setback in shedding, but this is easily recovered from in subsequent generations. His sire is an upgrade, a B coat, but most of his offspring are good shedders; and this ram lamb can be fully registered. To get such strong EBVs on every measure is hard, so I’m willing to take a little back wool to get it! See the below rankings in the national percentiles: only five other rams have been born in the nation in the last six years, which are on par with, or beating this ram! 

Photo from September 2021.  EBVs from 2021 lamb crop EPWWT data and includes the new Genomics run calculations, and this ram is genotyped himself. NSIP is currently not reporting the USA HAIR index, until it can be updated with the new Genomics calculations.  This ram is weaned and ready to start breeding today!

Offered for sale as a purebred, record-able  Katahdin ram lamb $500

Classic white ram. Dam traces back to Thistle Grove Farm (Dr. John Bare, DVM, Iowa), Misty Oaks Farm (Kathy Bielek, OH), Aspen Mountain Farm (Aileen Scott, MT) and some local On The Lamb Farm (Sara-Joh Gahm, Arlington, WA). Sire is a very framey and strong NSIP ram from Birch Cove Farm (David Coplen, MO). This guy is very strong across the board, on growth, prolificacy and milk; he’ll throw great butcher lambs and strong replacement ewes.  Note his sire is 87.5% recorded (due to tracing back to a Texel cross 4 generations ago) and I have not yet upgraded him because he didn’t shed adequately as a yearling. He may shed this year, thus freeing his offspring up to be 100% registered automatically. But if not, this ram lamb will need a hair coat inspection next year (which I can do, I’m a certified inspector) to be fully upgraded. Until then, he is record-able.

Photo from June 2021.   EBVs from 2021 WWT data. This ram is register-able and will be weaned in late August and ready to breed this fall.

Offered for sale as a purebred  Katahdin ram lamb $375

Dark chocolate ram with a small star. Sired by a framey, dark chocolate ram from Birch Cove Farm (David Coplen, Missouri). Dam traces to KRK and Morgan Ensor’s line,. He’s got balanced EBVs that are on the conservative side- nothing extreme.

Photo from June 2021.   EBVs from 2021 WWT data. This guy’s dam didn’t have a lot of milk this year, she’s getting older. So I brought them into the barn so he could creep feed. She’s been sold and he’s weaned and could go to a new home any time. He should continue to be fed creep (16% CP+ grain) for another month or two, until his rumen is mature and he learns to graze, to maintain him on a good growth plane.

Offered for sale as a purebred  Katahdin ram lamb $450

Really striking dark mahogany ram with a big white blaze, white front toe tips and tail, long hind socks, and white markings on his sides. He is very tall and framey like both parents. Sired by a framey, dark chocolate ram from Birch Cove Farm (David Coplen, Missouri). Dam traces to KRK, Morgan Ensor’s line, and Aspen Mountain (Aileen Scott, Montana). He’s got good growth EBVs, positive milk, and is more modest on prolificacy.

Photo from June 2021.   EBVs from 2021 WWT data. This guy’s dam didn’t have a lot of milk this year, she’s getting older. So I brought them into the barn so he could creep feed. She’s sold and will be leaving late June, so he’s essentially weaned and could go to a new home any time. He should continue to be fed creep (16% CP+ grain) for another month or so, until his rumen is mature and he learns to graze, to maintain his good growth plane.

Offered for sale as a purebred  Katahdin ram lamb $475

Flashy chocolate pinto ram. Dam traces back to Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko, now retired) and a big, framey white ram from Birch Cove Farm (David Coplen, Missouri).  We in the PNW have been lucky to borrow a ram from the USDA Research Station in Booneville, AR; Dr. Joan Burke is lending him to our region so that we can get better linkage to the “cluster” of flocks in the Midwest/South. He’s been on a tour through Idaho and Oregon, and made a stop here last winter to be used in my flock, and he’s headed East now. Take advantage of some great out-of-state genetics! He is both NSIP Maternal and NSIP Stud Certified.

Note that this ram’s dam is not a great shedder as a yearling, though I suspect she may shed cleanly next year as a two-year-old (her sire is BC H 973, who is a “barely B coat” upgrade). This ram doesn’t seem particularly shaggy to me, so I think he’ll shed fine; but just full disclosure for folks who are really worried about getting clean coats.

Photo from June 2021.  EBVs from 2021 lamb crop EPWWT data and includes the new Genomics run calculations (though this ram isn’t genotyped himself). NSIP is currently not reporting the USA HAIR index, until it can be updated with the new Genomics calculations.  This ram is register-able and weaned. He is late-born, so could breed a small number of ewes this fall (<20 if you want a short lambing window).

Offered for sale as a purebred  Katahdin ram lamb $400

Fawn pinto ram. Sired by a framey, dark chocolate ram from Birch Cove Farm (David Coplen, Missouri). Dam traces to Thistle Grove Farm (Dr. John Bare, DVM, Iowa) and  a very distant Dorper cross done by Shirley Hasbrouck many years ago! Very balanced, but moderate EBVs across the board.

Photo from June 2021.  EBVs from 2021 lamb crop EPWWT data and includes the new Genomics run calculations (though this ram isn’t genotyped himself). NSIP is currently not reporting the USA HAIR index, until it can be updated with the new Genomics calculations.  This ram is register-able and is ready to go to a new home and start breeding today.

Offered for sale as a purebred  Katahdin ram lamb $375

Fawn-reddish colored ram. We in the PNW have been lucky to borrow a ram from the USDA Research Station in Booneville, AR; Dr. Joan Burke is lending him to our region so that we can get better linkage to the “cluster” of flocks in the Midwest/South. He’s been on a tour through Idaho and Oregon, and made a stop here last winter to be used in my flock, and he’s headed East now. Take advantage of some great out-of-state genetics!

His dam is from Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko, now retired) and she is a triplet queen! She is a smaller-framed ewe and you can see the less framey growth scores coming both from her and the sire. This ram is what we call a “maternal sire” who would be great for producing replacement ewes that have very high prolificacy and survival, and good milk. Growth can come with good feeding, but # lambs brought to market is our primary profitability lever. This ram is NSIP Stud Certified due to his high index and prolificacy scores.

Photo from June 2021.   EBVs from 2021 WWT data. This ram is register-able and will be weaned in August and ready to breed this fall.

Offered for sale as a purebred  Katahdin ram lamb $400

Dark chocolate ram with a white krunet marking. Dam is a 2020 yearling out of a fast growth ewe line, and a Birch Cove ram that’s very tall and framey. This dude was born a month after the rest of my lambs, but is keeping pace on weight and sporting a huge milk goiter, so his mama’s milk must be pretty good. We in the PNW have been lucky to borrow a ram from the USDA Research Station in Booneville, AR; Dr. Joan Burke is lending him to our region so that we can get better linkage to the “cluster” of flocks in the Midwest/South. He’s been on a tour through Idaho and Oregon, and made a stop here last winter to be used in my flock, and he’s headed East now. Take advantage of some great out-of-state genetics! This ram has good growth, very strong milk and survival, and modest prolificacy. Perfect for those flocks that don’t love triplets but want vigorous, good-growing lambs.

Photo from June 2021 with his dam.  EBVs from 2021 lamb crop EPWWT data and includes the new Genomics run calculations (though this ram isn’t genotyped himself). NSIP is currently not reporting the USA HAIR index, until it can be updated with the new Genomics calculations.  This ram is register-able, weaned and ready to start breeding this fall!