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Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ram $450

This ram has pretty cute markings, he’s white and a baldface, but has a splash of brown spilled over his ears, shoulders and chest! Nice short hair coat. Very strong growth, milk and survival, and a little lower on prolificacy. He will make a great terminal sire or a father of replacement ewes for those who don’t like a lot of triplets. Pedigree si a good blend of Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri), KRK (Oregon), Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko, Moses Lake, now retired), and Aspen Mountain Farm (Aileen Scott, Montana).

Photo taken Aug 2020.  EBVs from 2020 lamb crop WWT data. This ram will be weaned and ready to go to a new home late August.

Offered for sale as a purebred, record-able Katahdin ram $400

Chocolate ram with a pale face. Really strong growth and milk numbers, positive on prolificacy and survival. This is a balanced ram that can produce fast-growing meat lambs and good replacement ewes. 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 coat looks like it should have no problem fully shedding next year. 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 has good local genetics plus a ewe that’s also from Birch Cove.

Photo taken Aug 2020.  EBVs from 2020 lamb crop WWT data. This ram will be weaned and ready to go to a new home late August.

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ram $400

Dark chocolate ram with a lot of color in his pedigree. Good growth numbers, positive on prolificacy and survival, and a little low on milk. He would make a good terminal sire, and will throw replacement ewes that have fewer triplets and milk complexity, for those who have hands-off flocks. He is out of my newly-purchased chocolate ram from Birch Cove Farm in Missouri (David Coplen); which is a grass-based, minimal input system with a long history of NSIP data. On the maternal side, he’s got a lot of local genetics plus a ewe from Birch Cove.

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

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ram $425

Big, blocky chocolate ram with black penciling, nice slick hair coat. Good growth numbers, positive on prolificacy, good survival, and a little low on milk. He would make a good terminal sire, and will throw replacement ewes that have fewer triplets and milk complexity, for those who have hands-off flocks. This is a big, single ram that has already hit my target butcher weight as a 4-month-old, so he should be able to cover a lot of ewes in the fall. You can see in the photo he’s nearly as big as his dam.

He is out of my newly-purchased chocolate ram from Birch Cove Farm in Missouri (David Coplen); which is a grass-based, minimal input system with a long history of NSIP data. On the maternal side, he’s got a lot of my most reliable old ewes, and some other local genetis.

Photo taken Aug 2020.  EBVs from 2020 lamb crop WWT data. This ram will be weaned and ready to go to a new home late August.

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ram $400

Light red/fawn ram with a pale face. Nice, short hair coat. Positive growth, good milk and solid prolificacy scores; this is a balanced ram and should be a solid producer of both grower lambs and replacement ewes. He is out of my newly-purchased chocolate ram from Birch Cove Farm in Missouri (David Coplen); which is a grass-based, minimal input system with a long history of NSIP data. On the maternal side, he’s got other solid NSIP genetics from Iowa and Montana, so brings a lot of fresh genetics to the PNW.

Photo taken Aug 2020.  EBVs from 2020 lamb crop WWT data. This ram will be weaned and ready to go to a new home late August.

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin yearling ewe, $200

Cute little fawn bald-faced ewe. This little girl was getting behind on growth, I don’t think her mother had a very good milk supply. So I weaned this girl early at 60 days so she could be in the barn and have access to hotter feed. She has positive but modest EBVs, so will be a very standard producing ewe, and likely won’t breed this fall because she is so tiny right now. She needs a year to grow up, and she’ll either make a nice pet or a reliable breeder starting at age two. She is very sweet and calm.

Photo taken June 2020. EBVs from 2020 lamb crop WWT data. This ewe is weaned and ready to go to a new home today. She needs to be on a high protein feed (creep and/or alfalfa hay) for at least a few months to let her catch up on growing. $200 if she goes before the end of July, she is discounted because you’ll have to feed her more than a bigger ewelamb that’s weaned onto grass in August!

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin yearling ewe $300

Very flashy red ewe with a lot of white markings: white hind socks, tail, side spots and blaze. Very framey, tall and elegant ewe. Pedigree leverages diverse genetics from Missouri (Birch Cove Farm) and Iowa (Thistle Grove Farm), Misty Oaks Farm (Kathy Bielek, OH), White Post Farm (East Coast, now retired), and KRK Katahdins in Oregon. Really nice, balanced EBVs across the board, this girl should raise growthy lambs on good milk and be a fairly consistent twinner.

EBVs from the 2020  lamb crop birth data. Photo taken May 2020. This yearling ewe is ready to breed this fall to lamb as a two year old.

Offered for sale as a commercial ewe/pet $250

Smaller-framed, dappled chocolate ewe. She is a calm and loyal mama, but has a very weak milk supply. I’ve not observed mastitis in her, either she has had a low-grade case or is just generally a poor milker. She also doesn’t hold condition well during nursing, whereas some poor-milking ewes stay really fat because they’re not putting much energy into milk. She could be bred again and may do ok on a small farm in a high input system (alfalfa and grain feeding year-round), though be prepared to bottle supplement or orphan-rear her lambs. Otherwise, she will make a sweet and pretty pasture pet.

Photo taken May 2020.  EBVs from 2020 lamb crop birth data. Her lambs have been mostly orphan-reared and are basically weaned, so she can go to a new home any time.

Offered for sale as a purebred, registered Katahdin ewe $720 with lambs at side through May 16th 

Beautiful, full-bodied white ewe. Positive and balanced EBVs across the board, this will be a very standard but productive ewe. Pedigree a blend of Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri), Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko,  Moses Lake, now retired), and KRK Katahdins in Oregon. Lambing record starting as a two-year-old: 2/2.

Photo taken September 2020. EBVs from 2020 lamb crop PWWT data. This ewe has twin lambs at side; a chocolate ram lamb with a white star, and a fawn colored ewelamb. Price good through mid-May, then it will adjust up to reflect the size/age of her lambs. Current price reflects dam as registered, ewelamb as register-able, and ram lamb as commercial. $100 more (now or later) for ram lamb registration. I’ll try to get a photo of the lambs soon!

Offered for sale as a purebred, registered Katahdin ewe $420 with ram lamb at side through May 16th 

Feminine white ewe. Modest growth EBVs, but positive prolificacy and a strong milk score make up for it, giving her a good index. Diverse blend of Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri), Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko,  Moses Lake, now retired), Misty Oaks Farm (Kathy Bielek, Ohio), Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, Iowa), and Aspen Mountain Farms (Aileen Scott, Montana). As you can see in the photo, she didn’t shed completely as a yearling, she was a borderline C coat. But those dreads may come off this year; and it’s not enough to require shearing. I’ve discounted her a little because of this. Lambing record starting as a two-year-old: 1/1.

Photo taken November 2020. EBVs from 2020 lamb crop PWWT data. This ewe has a white ram lamb at side. Price good through mid-May, then it will adjust up to reflect the size/age of her lamb. Current price reflects dam as registered, and ram lamb as commercial. $100 more (now or later) for ram lamb registration. I’ll try to get a photo of the ram soon!