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Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin yearling ewe $300

Cute fawn, freckle-faced ewe. Really nice EBVs across the board, lots of triplets in this pedigree and NLB score, along with good growth, survival and positive milk. This poor girl was quietly laying down in labor behind some bushes right in the middle of the day, and I missed that she had a shoulder-locked lamb until it was too late! So easy to pull, if only I would have caught it in time. 🙁 So, this loss was not really her fault and I have confidence she’ll be a good mother from here on out, she comes from very maternal lines.

Photo taken May 2020. EBVs from the 2020 lamb crop birth data. This ewe is ready to go to a new home today and breed this fall!

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin yearling ewe $300

Really meaty white ewe. Really nice EBVs across the board, very strong for growth and prolificacy, plus a pretty good milk score. Pedigree is a belend of KRK Katahdins (Oregon), Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri), and Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, Iowa); plus a lot of my own line.

Photo taken May 2020. EBVs from the 2020 lamb crop PWWT data. This ewe is open, and ready to go to a  new home today and breed this fall!

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin yearling ewe $275

Cute ewe with a freckle face. She delivered a lovely lamb and I happened upon them right at the time of birth, only to be dismayed to see the lamb having agonal breaths and I was not able to resuscitate it. It may have had a distressing birth, I don’t know. This ewe was so upset over her lamb she did not leave it for a day. I finally brought her in and tried to graft another lamb onto her, but she was resistant and I was too busy to persist. Instead I left her in the barn and found that she tolerated all the bummer lambs nursing off of her, as long as they did it from the back. 😀 So, she’s been feeding a whole gang of lambs, but I’m about to wean them all to sell as growers, so her job will be done for this year. I would not expect her lamb loss to recur, but have discounted her a bit anyway. She has very good growth EBVs and strong prolificacy and milk, just hit a little on her NLW score because of the lamb loss. Nice mix of KRK Katahdins (Oregon), Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri), and Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, Iowa).

Photo taken May 2020. EBVs from the 2020 lamb crop birth data. This ewe is ready to go to a  new home today and breed this fall!

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

Long, level-topline white ewe with a big red shoulder dot. Balanced EBVs across the board, nothing to extreme, but positive numbers. She’ll make a solid, easy-care ewe. 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), Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko, Moses Lake, now retired), and Bert Martineau (now retired).

Photo taken September 2020. EBVs from 2020 lamb crop birth data. This ewe is ready to go to a new home today and breed this fall!

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin yearling ewe, $325

Pretty fawn ewe with white snip, socks, tail and spots.This is a very “maternal ewe” pedigree and set of EBVs, very strong on prolificacy, more moderate on growth and milk. You are likely to get a lot of triplets out of this girl and they can survive and thrive! They will not be as fast-growing as some twinners, but it’s long-proven that our greatest profitability point is having that extra lamb, even at the cost of slower gains. 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 Bert Martineau (now retired).

Photo taken May 2020. EBVs from 2020 lamb crop birth data. This ewe is open, ready to go to a new home today and breed this fall!

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin yearling ewe, $325

Feminine white yearling ewe.This is a very “maternal ewe” pedigree and set of EBVs, very strong on prolificacy, more moderate on growth and milk. You are likely to get a lot of triplets out of this girl and they can survive and thrive! They will not be as fast-growing as some twinners, but it’s long-proven that our greatest profitability point is having that extra lamb, even at the cost of slower gains. 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 Bert Martineau (now retired).

Photo taken May 2020. EBVs from 2020 lamb crop birth data. This ewe is open, ready to go to a new home today and breed this fall!

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ewe $300

White ewe with tan ticking markings. Positive growth, strong milk, and moderate prolificacy, this is a very standard Katahdin ewe. She had a most gorgeous ewelamb at side and I planned to sell them as a pair, but the died suddenly at a month old. Upon necropsy, I found healthy lungs, a stomach full of milk, generous kidney fat, and little intestinal distress, but telltale pale “pulpy” kidneys- classic clostridium perfringens, which always kills the best-fed, best-growing lambs. I vaccinate for it, but I still get a couple of cases each year, and it makes me so mad. So, this is a bummer, but this ewe is far enough along in rearing that she should dry up fine and will be in great condition to breed in the fall.

Pedigree is a nice combo of Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri), Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko,  Moses Lake, now retired),  KRK Katahdins in Oregon, Misty Oaks Farm (Kathy Bielek, Ohio), and Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, Iowa).

Photo taken May 2020. EBVs from 2020 lamb crop birth data. This ewe is ready to go to a new home any time and breed in the fall.

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ewe $300

Pretty solid white ewe. She is lower on growth EBVs, but makes up for it in high prolificacy, survival and milk. This is a very “maternal ewe” EBV profile that echoes throughout her pedigree. She will have lots of high-survival lambs in her lifetime and will feed them well. Diverse blend of Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri), Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko,  Moses Lake, now retired), Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, Iowa) and Misty Oaks Farm (Kathy Bielek, Ohio).

Photo taken May 2020. EBVs from 2020 lamb crop birth data. This ewe is open and ready to be bred in the fall to lamb as a two-year-old.

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ewe $400, exposed

Larger-framed white ewe with “Raggedy Ann” black markings on her nose and eyes. Really strong growth and survival EBVs, but moderate on prolificacy and milk. This girl will be an uncomplicated producer of fast-growing, vigorous twins most of the time. Diverse blend of Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri), Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko,  Moses Lake, now retired),  On the Lamb Farm (Sara-Jo Gahm in Arlington), and White Post Farm (East Coast, now retired). Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/1.

Photo taken Sept 2020. EBVs from 2020 lamb crop birth data. 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 Katahdin ewe with ewelamb at side $500

Mahogany ewe with long white socks, white tail and panda/baldface markings. She is a bit shaggy ? and it’s possible she won’t shed completely and will be a B coat. But this is still considered register-able, and I don’t worry about it when production metrics are good, and the ewe doesn’t require shearing or any upkeep. It’s a minor aesthetic issue for me. You’ll notice she’s got a couple of percenters way back in her pedigree, one was a 1/4 Dorper, the other had some wool breed upgrades, so that’s probably where that snarl is coming from. This girl is quite strong for growth, milk and survival, but is a little lower on NLB for those people who dislike a lotta triplets. Very good maternal stock in this pedigree. Good blend of Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri), Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko,  Moses Lake, now retired), Bert Martineau (old WA genetics, now retired), and KRK Katahdins in Oregon.

Photo taken May 2020. EBVs from 2020 lamb crop birth data. This ewe has a chocolate ewelamb at side. They can go together for $500 by the end of May.