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

Meaty white ewe with positive EBVs across the board and really strong milk, she should be a very balanced producer that mostly avoids triplets. Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/1, 2/1 (stillborn twin in 2020).

Photo taken May 2019.  EBVs from 2019 lamb PWWT data. This ewe has a white ewelamb at side, they can go as a pair for $500 before the end of May.

Offered for sale as a registered purebred Katahdin ewe pet, $275

Standard ewe with red flecks. She is a really good mama and has nice lambs, but has a damaged udder from subclinical mastitis in a past year and can really only raise one lamb, thus I’m discounting her as a pet. But with supplementation or orphan rearing, she could give you good lambs for years to come. Or she can make a nice pasture ornament. Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/1, 1/1/ 2/1, 2/2, 2/1.

Photo taken May 2019.  EBVs from 2023 lamb crop WWT data.  This ewe is NSIP genotyped. She has a white ram lamb at side that could go with her for an extra fee, or she can go when he is weaned in July.

Offered for sale as a registered yearling ewe $300

Very flashy chocolate pinto ewe. Good growth and milk metrics, moderate on prolificacy. Early shedder. She brings in genetics from Iowa (Thistle Grove Farm) and Missouri (Birch Cove Farm) for diversity to the PNW gene pool.

Photo taken May 2019.  EBVs from 2019 lamb crop birth data. This yearling ewe is ready to grow out and breed in the fall to lamb as a two year old.

Offered for sale as a registered yearling ewe, $300

This is a gorgeous, feminine ewe with very striking red pinto markings. She has good growth metrics, modest on prolificacy and a little low on milk. But, she comes from very old genetics- KRK33 was a ewe who lived 13 years and had 30 lambs in her lifetime, so prolificacy and milk is there on the maternal side, but 33’s data wasn’t captured in NSIP. This pedigree brings in some genetics from Iowa (Thistle Grove Farm) and Missouri (Birch Cove Farm).

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

Offered for sale as a registered ewe $700 with lambs at side

A beautiful, balanced and long-bodied white ewe. Modest and balanced EBVs predict this ewe won’t be extreme in any metric, but will likely solidly produce good twins without much complication. She has Missouri (Birch Cove Farm), Iowa (Thistle Grove Farm) and now-retired Misty River Farm (eastern WA) genetics; so this is a very diverse pedigree.

Photo taken May 2021, she is still in the process of shedding, but is a clean shedder.  EBVs from 2021 lamb crop birth data. Lambing record starting as a 2-year-old: 2/2. She can go with lambs at side for $700 total for the group, by 6/30/21. She has a chocolate ewelamb and a white ram lamb at side (out of BC H 974).

Offered for sale as a registered yearling ewe $450 with ewelamb at side

A classic white, feminine ewe. She has positive growth and milk metrics, and moderate prolificacy; so should be an easy-care ewe. Her pedigree brings in fresh blood from Iowa and Missouri, two grass-fed NSIP flocks that have brought me strong genetic improvement. She lambed freely on pasture and is being a great mother as a yearling. She has a chocolate ewelamb at side (not pictured), sired by KMC7018. Selling them as a pair for $450 if picked up before July 7th.

Photo taken May 2019.  EBVs from 2019 lamb crop birth data. This ewe can go any time with her ewelamb at side; or solo after lamb is weaned in August.

Full disclosure: this ewe’s dam and grandam both had vaginal prolapse, which can be hereditary; and some people cull for it on first offense. In my own flock, I don’t consider it a “dealbreaker” unless it recurs, because it’s also often caused by environmental/ nutrition issues. Other ewes from these lines have not shown the problem. Since this ewe lambed normally as a yearling, I don’t feel she or her daughter are very likely to repeat this issue. But I do like to be transparent about potential defects, and I have discounted her from what I would charge if she did not have this question mark in her history.

Offered for sale as a registered yearling ewe $450 with ewelamb at side

A pretty, refined buckskin colored ewe with white socks and tail. She has positive growth and milk metrics, and moderate prolificacy; so should be an easy-care ewe. She lambed freely and is showing very strong maternal behavior as a yearling. She has a very flashy-marked panda faced ewelamb at side. The lamb is purebred, but I don’t know who the sire is, as this ewe was bred late while running with a large group of butcher lambs in the winter. The ewelamb can be recorded as 50% if the buyer desires. Selling them as a pair for $450 if picked up before July 7th.

Photo taken May 2019.  EBVs from 2019 lamb crop birth data. This ewe can go any time with her ewelamb at side; or solo after lamb is weaned in August.

Offered for sale as a registered ewe for $250

A pretty red ewe with lots of color in her pedigree. She has been a reliable dam and has good growth metrics and moderate milk; but her NLB/NLW scores are low due to general family data, and because she singled in 2019 as a mature adult. This year, her score will get dinged more because she is open (blood tested late April to confirm). I had a couple of ewes abort early in the season and I don’t know which ones, so it’s possible she was pregnant and lost it due to environmental factors. It likely won’t recur and she’ll lamb normally next year, but I have discounted her accordingly. She would also make a lovely pet!

Her lambing record starting as a two-year-old: 2/2, 1/1, 0/0. Photo from Jan 2019.  EBVs from 2019 PWWT lamb data.

Offered for sale as a registered ewe with ram lamb at side $395 before 6/30/19

A very standard white ewe and a good mama. Her dam was a very productive ewe here, raising 30 lambs over a thirteen year lifespan. Unfortunately, she didn’t get credit for that prolificacy because she arrived here too old to have most of her lamb crops counted in NSIP; so this girl’s NLB score is lower than it should be, which also drops her index down. I believe this ewe is likely to twin most of her life. Her growth scores are modest, and her milk score is also low. So if she does ever have triplets, one might be poised to orphan-rear one, feed her really well, or be prepared for slower growing lambs. In general I expect this ewe will be productive and easy-care for many years to come.

This ewe is an upgrade to purebred status, as her dam was a recorded ewe. Her lambing record starting as a two-year-old: 2/2, 2/1. She had a stillborn lamb this year along with a healthy twin. Photo taken Jan 2019.  EBVs from April 2019 lamb crop birth data. This ewe can go with her ram lamb at side (as an unregistered grower- #19120, a fawn colored ram with white socks) before the end of June for $395. After that, I will wean the lamb and raise the price on both.

Offered for sale as a registered ewelamb $300

Gorgeous, big-bodied, red roan ewe with really strong growth and good milk scores. Higher prolificacy, though this girl may sometimes have triplets. She’s got Aspen Mountain (Montana) and Birch Cove (Missouri) genetics behind her, as well as Misty River, now retired from sheep.

Photo taken May 2019.  EBVs from 2019 lamb crop birth data. This girl is ready to grow out and breed this fall, to lamb as a two-year-old.