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Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb, $375

A pretty red ram with solid growth and milk numbers, good prolificacy and moderate on survival EBVs. Lots of color in this pedigree, grabbing some genetics from Mary Bakko’s now-retired Misty River Farm plus a lot of my own top maternal lines. This will be a good flock sire for someone’s homestead!

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, $475

A classic white ram with very strong EBVs across the board. He qualifies for both the NSIP Maternal Certified and Stud Certified status. This guy will throw great butcher lambs and very strong replacement daughters that push growth, prolificacy, survival and milk to new heights. This ram is out of one of my top ewes from Mary Bakko’s now-retired Misty River Farm flock, and he traces back to a bit of Iowa and Missouri genetics as well. One of my top picks from the 2019 crop of 141 lambs.

EBVs from the 2020 lamb crop WWT data. Photo taken July 2020. This yearling ram is ready to start breeding as soon as you need him to!

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $450

Classic white ram with really strong EBVs across the board, and is NSIP Maternal Certified. He will throw good butcher lambs as well as excellent replacement daughters- just look at that milk score… This ram leverages genetics from Missouri (Birch Cove Farm) and Iowa (Thistle Grove Farm), both excellent grass-fed flocks that focus on NSIP. This is one of my top lambs out of our 2019 crop of 141 lambs! Take him home to improve your flock genetics today!

EBVs from the 2020 lamb crop WWT data. Photo taken July 2020. This yearling ram is ready to start breeding this fall.

Offered for sale as a registered yearling ram lamb, $450

A classic white ram with very strong EBVs across the board, and the NSIP Maternal Certified status. This guy will throw great butcher lambs and very strong replacement daughters that push growth, prolificacy, survival and milk to new heights. This ram is a nice combination of out-of-state genetics from Missouri and Iowa, and blends in a ewe from Mary Bakko’s now-retired Misty River Farm flock. Get ‘im while he’s hot, this is one of the nicest rams here out of my crop of 141 2019 lambs!

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

Offered for sale as a registered yearling ewe $500 with wether lamb at side

Pretty dark chocolate brown ewe, slick shedder, good mama. Very positive growth and milk scores, moderate on prolifacy, this girl is likely to be a solid twinner most of her life. Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/1.

Photo taken June 2019 with her lamb.  EBVs from 2019 lamb crop WWT data. This girl can go with her (to be castrated) grower ram lamb at side as a pair before the end of August. In Sept, she can go solo for $325 once I wean her lamb.

Offered for sale as a commercial ewe/pet $250

A classically built, white ewe, clean shedder. Her dam had mastitis on one side, trying to raise twins as a yearling, so this one ended up mostly being an orphan-rear (though not really a “bottle baby” because I teach them to drink off of a teat bucket right away). You can see in the photo that she’s kind of a friendly pest, always curious about what I’m doing. She is a product of an unplanned late breeding from a cleanup ram, and thus she is somewhat inbred, her sire is also her maternal grandsire. But the rest of her pedigree is outcrossed; so if she were bred in the future, I don’t expect her progeny to be too bottlenecked. In January I caught a small mastitis abscess on her udder and treated that. Subsequently, she did not lamb this year, and has blood-tested open for pregnancy late April. I had a couple of ewes abort during winter and she may have been one of them, or may have resorbed her pregnancy (she had originally tested positive in November for an Oct breeding.) She could be bred in the future and would likely be a reliable producer, though she may have lower milk production if part of her udder was damaged. Otherwise, she will make a friendly pasture pet.

Photo taken May 2020.  EBVs from 2020 lamb crop birth data.

Offered for sale as a registered ewe $375, exposed to a ram

A large-framed buckskin ewe with positive growth and milk scores, a little lower on prolificacy. Lambing record starting as two year old: 1/1, 3/2. She lost one of her triplets this year three weeks in, necropsy revealed it had no milk in its stomach, so was likely not keeping up or competing with the siblings; so she may need to be monitored if she has triplets again. But her NLB score indicates triplets may not be common for her, and she is very maternal with her remaining twins.

Photo taken June 2019.  EBVs from 2019 lamb crop PWWT data. This ewe is exposed to a ram (KMC 7045) and is due early April.

Offered for sale as a purebred Katahdin ewe with ewelamb at side $500

A feminine, classic white ewe with positive growth, milk and prolificacy. She lost her lamb last year from external causes, but easily grafted on twins, so she is very maternal. Her mother is from the now-retired Misty River line, and her paternal grandmother is from Birch Cove Farm in Missouri. Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/2, 1/1

Photo taken June 2019.  EBVs from 2020 crop birth data. This ewe can go with her chocolate ewelamb at side before June for $500, or for $300 in August when her lamb is weaned.

Offered for sale as a commercial/pet ewe, $350 with ram lamb at side

A really big-bodied, solid, reliable ewe with good growth EBVs, and low on prolificacy scores. Her lambing record starting as a 2-year-old: 1/1, 1/0, 2/2, 1/1. In 2019 she had a huge single ram lamb that was shoulder-locked in delivery overnight. I didn’t find it in time to pull it and save it, so that wasn’t really her fault, and that hurt her NLW score. But that year, I grafted two unrelated lambs onto her instead; she was a very receptive, and became a very maternal and protective mother of them. That fall, she developed a case of mastitis which manifested outwardly in an abscess. I treated her with antibiotics and it healed fine, but she has a one-sided udder now. She may be able to raise twins in the future, but will likely need supplementation. Luckily she had a single lamb this year, so she will raise him easily. Thus,I have priced her at pet/cull price, though you could certainly breed her again if you were willing to bottle feed some.

Photo taken April 2020 with her ram lamb at side (she is the ewe on the right).  EBVs from 2019 lamb crop PWWT data run. She is for sale with ram lamb at side (unregistered) for $350 for the pair before May 31st. Her lamb is white with big red spots.

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

This is a really stunning solid dark chocolate ewe with balanced EBVs across the board. Very clean shedder, she is going to be a big-bodied ewe as she matures. She has balanced and positive EBVs across the board and should be a really solid producer. I keep waffling on keeping her because she is so pretty, but her prolificacy scores are a little low on my curve. Her mother is very strong, but her sire’s scores have been sinking, so she doesn’t quite make the cut to stay here. Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/1, 2/2.

Photo taken Sept 2020. EBVs from 2020 lamb crop birth data. Her lambs are weaned and she is ready to go to a new home today!