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Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ewe, $300 

Beefy white yearling ewe. Very strong growth, milk and survival scores, and a little lower on NLB, so she’ll likely steer clear of triplets most of the time and be a very easy-care ewe. Diverse pedigree blending genetics from Misty River Farm in Moses Lake (now retired), Birch Cove (David Coplen) in Missouri, Just Plain Sheep in Moses Lake (now retired), and Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare) in Iowa.

Photo taken November 2019. EBVs from 2020 lamb crop birth data. This ewe is ready to go to a new home and grow out to breed to lamb as a two-year-old.

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ewe, $300 

Stocky chocolate yearling ewe. Lots of chocolate and color in this pedigree. Very strong EBVs across the board, this girl should be a good producer of growthy twins fed by rich milk.

Photo taken November 2019. EBVs from 2020 lamb crop birth data. This ewe is ready to go to a new home and grow out to breed to lamb as a two-year-old.

Reference Ram “Lucky”

This is KMC 19098 “Lucky”. Why does he look so happy in this picture? Because he was accidentally recorded and tagged as a ewe at birth by the interns. He snuck around with this false identity until nearly the end of October in 2019, at which time, he’d bred about 40% of my ewes! 😀 He is a good ram, but using him this year was not part of my plans, as I’d just spent a lot of money flying in two new rams to use. So it was a bit of a curve ball to deal with, and I’m going to have a two-month-long lambing season. But here we are, Mother Nature constantly humbles us. On the plus side, we can declare his breeding prowess as quite strong, as in a month, he managed to cover a much larger number of ewes than one would normally expected for a ram lamb. His pedigree is a very nice, diverse blend of my own NSIP genetics, now-retired Misty River Farm, Birch Cove (Missouri) and Aspen Mountain (Montana), with a splash of KRK in the background. He has positive growth, very good milk, and good prolificacy, including a high survival metric. I think he’s going to throw some nice, vigorous lambs and good replacement ewes, I just wish he didn’t have quite as much, er, opportunity to dominate this year’s lamb crop!

EBVs below are from 2019 PWWT lamb crop data.

Offered for sale as a registered 4-year old ewe, $400, exposed

Well-framed, white ewe with tan spots. She has a barely-noticeable parrot mouth (overshot jaw), the only one I’ve ever seen in my flock; not too worrisome to me in a ewe, but worth mentioning. Good growth metrics and moderate on milk, but low on prolificacy. The latter is low on her dam’s side for NLB and on her sire’s side for NLW; but in both cases the other side is stronger and she seems to be producing well so far. Her pedigree is a diverse blend incorporating a strong grandsire from North Dakota State University and a maternal grandma from David Coplen’s Birch Cove Farm in Missouri, both strong NSIP flocks. She is a good mother, in 2019 she had a stillborn twin and I was easily able to graft another orphan onto her to raise. Her lambing record starting as a 2-year-old: 2/2, 2/2 (raised twins w/ grafter), 1/1.

EBVs from the 2019 lamb crop PWWT data. Photo taken November 2020. 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 registered 5-year old ewe, with twin lambs at side, $620

This is a sturdy, fawn-colored ewe with a nice modest frame size and beautiful hair coat. She has very strong growth and milk scores, and is lower on prolificacy. The latter is a blend of very high scores from her mother and lower scores for her sire, but so far, she seems to be showing the genes of her dam’s side. She is a good mother, she lost a lamb in 2018 due to accidental causes (he felt into, and got stuck in, a very narrow, collapsed mole run and was found too late 🙁 ). Her lambing record starting as a 2-year-old: 2/2, 2/1, 2/2, 2/2.

EBVs from the 2019 lamb crop PWWT data. Photo taken October 2019. She has twins at side out of KMC7045: a fawn-colored ram and a white ewelamb with some rust-colored markings. They can go as a set before the end of May for $620.

Offered for sale as a registered 5-year old ewe, exposed, $450

This is a very standard ewe, white with a big brown spot on her shoulder and a really nice hair coat. She is out of a blend of PNW genetics, including the now-retired Misty River Farm. She has strong growth and milk scores, a little weaker on prolificacy, due to…. She lost a lamb her first  year to clostridium, which is not her fault. Her second year, she rejected a twin, partly due to some chaos at the time she gave birth and another ewe that granny’ed it. But she did great with her twins this year and is generally very laid-back and maternal. Her lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/0, 2/1, 1/1, 2/2

EBVs from the 2019 lamb crop PWWT data. Photo taken October 2019. This ewe has been exposed to KMC 7045 and is due to lamb in April.

Offered for sale as a registered 5-year old ewe, exposed, $350

This is a very pretty, well-put-together white ewe with a really nice coat. She has a modest frame size, which I really strive for, as I don’t like handling big ewes. Her growth numbers are a little on the low side, but her prolificacy and milk are good. She will tend to raise good twins and triplets; on grass alone they may take a little longer to finish, but if supplemented with hay or creep, this ewe’s yield will be great. This ewe is out of the now-retired Misty River flock and John Bare’s Thistle Grove Farm in Iowa, both dedicated NSIP flocks.

She is a very mellow and maternal ewe. In 2019, I awoke in the morning to find her loyally laying by two stillborn lambs that she had thoroughly cleaned during the night. (I suspect they were born backwards or had some mechanical reason to be born dead, which is not her fault behaviorally or genetically). She was feeling sad (and I didn’t want to waste that milk supply!), so I grafted two orphan lambs onto her. She took them graciously and even seemed appreciative to me for giving her some babies! 🙂 Her lambing record starting as a 2-year-old: 2/2, 3/3, 2/0 (+2 grafted).

EBVs from the 2019 lamb crop PWWT data. Photo taken November 2019. This ewe has been exposed to KMC 7045 and is due to lamb in April.

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $425

Elegant tall, white ram with a black spotted nose. Positive EBVs across the board. He combines genetics from Thistle Grove Farm (Iowa), White Post Farm (East Coast), Birch Cove Farm (Missouri), and the now-retired Misty River Farm in Eastern WA. Let this guy go to work on your farm today!

EBVs from the 2019 lamb crop PWWT data. Photo taken September 2019. This ram is weaned and ready to start breeding this fall.

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb, $375

A flashy buckskin pinto ram with a really nice, short AA coat that has already shed this year. Positive EBVs across the board. Diverse pedigree that pulls in Birch Cove Farm (Missouri), Thistle Grove Farm (Iowa), Aspen Mountain (Montana) and a few older, local genetics. Lots of color in this pedigree as well!

EBVs from the 2019 lamb crop PWWT data. Photo taken September 2019. This ram is weaned and ready to start breeding this fall.

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb, $425

White ram with positive EBVs across the board; he’ll make a good terminal sire or will throw good replacement ewes as well. Diverse pedigree incorporating Birch Cove Farm, now-retired Misty River Farm, and some KRK genetics.

EBVs from the 2019 lamb crop PWWT data. Photo taken September 2019. This ram is weaned and ready to start breeding this fall.