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Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $450

Solid red ram with very balanced EBVs across the board. Should throw vigorous lambs that grow reasonably well, and solid daughters to use as replacement breeders.

EBVs from this year’s lamb crop 120 day weight data. Photo taken in early July. This lamb is weaned and ready to go to a new home today.

Offered for sale as a registered yearling ewe, bred $450

This is a pretty reddish-brown ewe with a white tail and hind socks. She has strong growth EBVs and a positive milk score, so should have growthy lambs; but her prolificacy should steer away from frequent triplets. Her sire is my “maternal sire” ram from Iowa, John Bare, DVM’s flock at Thistle Grove Farm.  There are some Montana genetics on her maternal side, so she brings some fresh blood to the PNW.

This ewe has been exposed to a ram, due to lamb in April. Her lambs will be registerable. Keep in mind that mature ewes usually twin, so the floor of profit is $400 in butcher lambs, more if you sell some registered lambs or have triplets, so bred ewes have a great ROI. There are no guarantees on pregnancy status, since viability is mostly due to handling and feeding; but I rarely have one end up open. EBVs from this year’s lamb crop 120 day weight data. Photo taken early August.

Offered for sale as a registered two-year-old ewe, $400, exposed to a ram starting 11/3/18

A balanced white ewe with good maternal scores and positive growth.  Her maternal grandmother is from Aileen Scott’s Aspen Mountain farm in Montana, so she brings some fresh blood in from out of state. Her paternal grandsire is from Misty River Farm (Mary Bakko) which is a now-retired line. This girl is ready to provide you with a decade of twins!

EBVs from the 2018 lamb crop 120 day weight data. Photo taken November 2018. Lambing history starting as a yearling: 1/1, 2/2

Offered for sale as a registered two-year-old ewe, $300

A deep-bodied, chocolate ewe. Good mother, good shedder. She’s middle-of-the-road on EBVs, positive growth numbers, a little light on milk and survival, but strong for twinning genetics. I expect her to be a solid producer that lives a long life.

Photo taken Aug 2017. EBVs from 2018 lamb crop WWT data. She has twin lambs at side, (18053, 10854) which will be weaned mid-August, or she could go before then with one or both (lambs cost extra). Lambing record starting as a two-year-old: 2/2.

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $475

This is a buckskin lamb with flashy white markings. His dam is new to my farm, so she lacks any NSIP data or accuracy, and was never bred before arriving here. But she is a big, deep-bodied ewe that’s mellow to handle and has been a good mother. I think there may be more potential in these genetics than the EBVs can tell us at this point, but so far, these twin rams have grown well.

EBVs from 2017 lamb 120 day weight data. Photo taken early July.

Offered for sale as a registered yearling ewe $300

A very standard white ewe with very strong prolificacy scores and a high index. A little leaner on milk and growth, but this girl will make it up in multi-births that survive.

EBVs from this year’s lamb crop sixty day weight data. Photo taken in July. She is ready to go to a new home today!

Offered for sale as a registered yearling ewe $350

A pretty, tall chocolate brockle-faced ewe. She has very balanced EBVs across the board, good growth, positive prolificacy and good milk. This is hard to get. Her sire brings in fresh blood from Iowa, John Bare DVM and Thistle Grove Farm. Dam is from some old stock WA genetics, with a Dorper thrown in way in the background; plus a North Dakota State ram in there too.

EBVs from this year’s lamb crop sixty day weight data. Photo taken in June as a yearling, she has since shed cleanly. This ewe is ready to travel to a new home today and breed this fall!

Offered for sale as a registered two-year-old ewe, $400, exposed starting 11/3/18

This is a very well-built white ewe with a classic Katahdin frame. She has positive growth and solid prolificacy scores, but is somewhat weak on milk. She will make a very solid producer and will likely have lots of twins and triplets over her lifetime. 

EBVs from 2018 lamb crop 120 day weight data. Photo taken November 2018. Lambing record starting as a two-year-old: 2/2. She is bred to KMC7018, due to lamb in April.

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $450

This is a masculine and tall white ram. He has strong maternal traits and good growth EBVs. This is a ram with genetics geared towards producing replacement ewes in your flock, while still producing plenty of growth in butcher lambs. His scores qualify him for the NSIP Maternal Certified distinction.

His sire brings new genetics to the PNW from Iowa, where John Bare at Thistle Grove Farm concentrates on EBVs and genetics for prolificacy and growth in a grass system. His maternal side has some old-time PNW genetics that come from farms which no longer exist. Two of his maternal granddams were upgrades that brought fresh genetics into the pedigree. He avoids all of the local over-used sires that bottleneck almost every pedigree in the area. This guy can genuinely bring you some fresh blood and hybrid vigor, with solid EBVs to match. The only drawback is he has developed scurs, so I have discounted him accordingly.

EBVs from 2017 sixty day weight data. Photo taken mid July. This ram can be weaned any time to go to a new home, and should be able to start breeding right away when ewes start cycling in early fall.

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $550

This is a flashy mahogany and white ram with long white socks, a big white blaze and white body markings. He has strong maternal traits and good growth EBVs. This is a ram with genetics geared towards producing replacement ewes in your flock, while still producing plenty of growth in butcher lambs. His scores qualify him for the NSIP Maternal Certified distinction.

His sire brings new genetics to the PNW from Iowa, where John Bare at Thistle Grove Farm concentrates on EBVs and genetics for prolificacy and growth in a grass system. His maternal side has some old-time PNW genetics that come from farms which no longer exist. Two of his maternal granddams were upgrades that brought fresh genetics into the pedigree. He avoids all of the local over-used sires that bottleneck almost every pedigree in the area. This guy can genuinely bring you some fresh blood and hybrid vigor, with solid EBVs to match.

EBVs from 2017 sixty day weight data. Photo taken early July. This ram can be weaned any time to go to a new home, and should be able to start breeding right away when ewes start cycling in early fall.