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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!

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin yearling ewe $300

Pretty red ewe with a white face krunet marking. Good growth, milk and survival scores, modest on prolificacy. Diverse, pedigree has Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko, Moses Lake, retired), Aspen Mountain Farm (Aileen Scott, Montana), Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, DVM, Iowa) 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!

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin yearling ewe $450 with lamb at side

Classic white yearling ewe. Good growth, milk and survival scores, modest on prolificacy. Pedigree has Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko, Moses Lake, retired), Aspen Mountain Farm (Aileen Scott, Montana), and Bert Martineau (now retired, old WA state line).

Photo taken May 2021, she’s still in the process of shedding, but will be a clean shedder.   EBVs from 2021 lamb crop data (tho I made a mistake in submission, so these may move around after the 5/30 NSIP submission date when I correct the parentage on the lamb).  This ewe has a ram lamb at side, white with some red spots (sired by USD 19094); they can go together for $450 before the end of June. Ewe is register-able, ram lamb is sold as commercial, $100 more for his registration paperwork (now or later).

Offered for sale as a registered ewe $525 with ewelamb at side

Really pretty, well-put-together white ewe. She birthed a stillborn single this spring. She was such a dedicated  mother that for hours, she pawed and worked at that lamb to get it up until she wore the hair off of it! She was in great distress when I finally took it away. I had a weak lamb in the barn from another mother that I grafted onto her, and she took it with ease. She is extremely maternal and remained very protective of her adopted lamb. Pedigree is a blend of Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri), Misty River (Mary Bakko, now retired), On the Lamb Farm (Arlington) and Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, DVM, Iowa). She was open last year, I usually have one or two ewes that miss a season but go on to lamb normally in the future, as she seems to have done. She’s three, heading into her most productive years, and she lambed as a yearling, which is a plus. Her EBVs are good for growth and milk, and she’s taken a bit of a hit on NLB both for her own sake, and because her sire is low. But if she’s fed well, she will likely mostly be a twinner in the future.

Photo taken May 2021, she’s still in the process of shedding, and is a clean shedder.  EBVs from 2021 lamb crop birth data. Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/1, 0/0, 1/1. She can go with her adopted lamb at side, a chocolate ewelamb (out of KMC 19122 and BC H  974), by  6/30/21 for $525.

Offered for sale as a registered ewe $550 with ewelamb at side

Flashy chocolate and white pinto ewe. Really strong growth and milk, but low on prolificacy, this girl may single more than she triplets. There are plenty of triplets in her family, though, so it is not out of the question. Pedigree is a blend of Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri), Misty River (Mary Bakko, now retired), White Post (East Coast, new retired), and some old genetics from Bert Martineau, also now retired.

Photo taken May 2021, she is still in the process of shedding.  EBVs from 2021 lamb crop birth data. Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/1, 1/1, 1/1. She can go with her lamb at side, a red-spotted ewelamb (out of USD 19094), by  6/30/21 for $550.