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Reference Ram

I kept this ram back as a replacement for his sire because he keeps his strong growth scores but improves greatly on prolificacy and milk. He’s still a little low on survival, but has a lot of potential in all the other EBVs. Photo taken November 2018 heading into breeding season. He’s a very nondescript-looking ram, and a little shaggy and muddy in winter, but his EBVs are quite good! You can see in the photo his scrotal circumstance is significant compared to his frame size, which gives him a boost in prolificacy scores.

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $300

Stocky, compact-framed white ram with positive growth and really high prolificacy scores, and lower on maternal milk. This guy and his sibling 18112 are both what I would consider “maternal rams”,  that will produce really high-producing daughters, but also have reasonable traits for growth. I notice that rams with these kinds of scores tend to be compact, with huge testicles compared to their frame size; so they are not visually impressive, but are genetically very strong. This ram has a little weaker EBVs than his brother, and he is scurred, but I find him to be more attractive than his sibling.

Photo taken mid October 2018.  EBVs from 2018 lamb crop 120 day weight data. This ram is weaned and ready to go to a breeding home today!

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $350

Stocky, compact-framed white ram with good growth and really high prolificacy scores, and lower on maternal milk. This guy and his sibling 18113 are both what I would consider “maternal rams”,  that will produce really high-producing daughters, but also have good traits for growth. I notice that rams with these kinds of scores tend to be compact, with huge testicles compared to their frame size; so they are not visually impressive, but are genetically very strong. This ram has a little stronger EBVs than his brother, and is polled, but I find his brother to be slightly more attractive.

Photo taken mid October 2018.  EBVs from 2018 lamb crop 120 day weight data. This ram is weaned and ready to go to a breeding home today!

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb, $350

This is a flashy, dark mahogany pinto ram with an East-coast body style, very long, muscular with a long neck and a tight curly coat. He has solid growth EBVs and is a little lower on maternal traits.

EBVs from the 2018 lamb crop 120 day weight data. Photo taken  in mid October. This ram is weaned and ready to go to a new breeding home today!

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $450

Clasic white ram with red spots and a nice short coat. Strong EBVs across the board, he will produce both good butcher lambs and replacement ewes. Most of his pedigree is from out of state, so he brings in a lot of fresh genetics.

EBVs from 2018 120-day weight data. Photo taken mid October. This ram is ready to go to a new breeding home today!

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb, $350

A classic white ram with balanced EBVs that are more in the moderate range. This ram won’t produce anything too extreme, but will have good-growing lambs, and his daughters will likely steer away from triplets most of the time, while still providing good milk.

EBVs from the 2018 lamb crop 120 day weight data. Photo taken  in mid October. This ram is weaned and ready to go to a new breeding home today!

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb, $400

Flashy-marked pinto/ panda-faced ram with strong growth and prolificacy. Slightly weak on maternal milk, but still all around a really good ram. This ram has small scurs.

EBVs from the 2018 lamb crop 120 day weight data. Photo taken  in mid October. This ram is weaned and ready to go to a new breeding home today!

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb, $500

A beautiful, colorful ram with strong EBVs across the board. He will make a great terminal sire or a maternal sire for generating replacement ewes. He is NSIP Maternal  Certified. He has some strong genetics from Mary Bakko’s now-retired line, Misty River Farm, as well as some Iowa and Missouri sheep in his pedigree. Very diverse background, bringing new genetics to the PNW.

EBVs from the 2019 lamb crop WWT data. Photo taken August 2019. He was one of my top picks from last year’s lamb crop, I wintered him over and he’s looking great. This ram is a mature yearling ready to go to work this fall!

Offered for sale as a registered ewelamb, $275

Flashy buckskin pinto ewe with strong growth and milk EBVs, moderate on prolificacy. Her dam is novel to NSIP so data behind her is less accurate; but she’s been a good mother here in her two years so far. A blend of some local genetics with a paternal granddam of a Birch Cove ewe from Missouri. Tons of color in this pedigree, including a lot with flashy markings.

EBVs from the 2018 lamb crop 120 day weight data. Photo taken  in July. This lamb is weaned and ready to go to a new home today.