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Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $550

A classic and very balanced white Katahdin ram lamb with 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 Farms concentrates on EBVs and genetics for prolificacy and growth in a grass system. His maternal great grandsire is from the now retired White Post Farm, one of the founding pillars of the breed.

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.

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $525

A classic and very balanced white Katahdin ram lamb with 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. He is out of completely fresh blood to the PNW, his sire is from Iowa (Thistle Grove Farm) and his dam is from Missouri (Birch Cove Farm) both from grass-fed flocks where EBVs, prolificacy and hardiness are breeding priorities.

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.

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $500

This is a well-put-together red ram with strong growth numbers. He had a weird infection in his shoulder when he was young, caused by Actinomyces, which is a normal mouth bacteria that sometimes goes where it shouldn’t due to injury, and causes “lumpy jaw.” I successfully treated him and he’s doing great now, but this meant he spent some time in the barn and around people. So he’s an extra mellow and friendly guy, but still respectful, so should be an easy-to-handle adult.

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

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $475

This is a very flashy-marked chocolate and white pinto ram lamb. He has the top PWWT score here, and a really strong WWT EBV as well. His maternal scores are pretty solid, to boot, so this ram will be a good all-rounder that makes fast-growing butcher lambs and good replacement ewe daughters. He is out of two 2015 parents, so represents the “best of the best” of the next gen of high-EBV scorers here.

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

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $450

A big, beefy red ram with long white hind socks. He has modest prolificacy scores, but they are also of lower accuracy, since both his parents are young, only aged two. He will definitely be a strong terminal sire for grower lambs, as his growth scores are some of the highest here. But he is balanced enough to also produce replacement ewes, his daughters may not be triplet-heavy, but they will be reliable producers of fast-growing lambs. This guy brings in fresh blood from Iowa and Missouri, both from grass-fed farms that select for parasite resistance and maternal ability.

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.

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $475

A big, beefy red ram with long white hind socks and a white tail. He has modest prolificacy scores, but they are also of lower accuracy, since both his parents are young, only aged two. He will definitely be a strong terminal sire for grower lambs, as his growth scores are some of the highest here. But he is balanced enough to also produce replacement ewes, his daughters may not be triplet-heavy, but they will be reliable producers of fast-growing lambs. This guy brings in fresh blood from Iowa and Missouri, both from grass-fed farms that select for parasite resistance and maternal ability.

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.

Offered for sale as a registered yearling ewe, $325

A nice-sized white ewe with some red markings. She has a slick, early-shedding coat. Positive growth numbers and higher on the prolificacy scale, I would expect this girl to have occasional  (or more) triplets, like she did this year.

Photo taken July 2018. EBVs from 2018 lamb crop WWT data. She will be dried off in August and ready to go to a new home, or could go with 1-3 of her triplet white ram lambs before then (for an extra charge). Lambing record starting as a two-year-old: 3/3

Offered for sale as a commercial yearling ewe, bred $300

This is a good-sized buckskin ewe with a lot of white markings. She has a lot of color in her pedigree. Her EBVs are modest, partly because there isn’t a lot of data in the system for her dam’s side. I expect her to be a consistent twinner with no extreme traits. She retained enough wool this year to qualify as a “C” coat, so I’m selling her unregistered as a commercial ewe, at a discount. She’s shed enough to not require shearing, so it’s just an aesthetic issue. Sometimes sheep that shed this far as yearlings do shed fully in subsequent years. If she does, I could upgrade her to registered later for another $100.

This ewe has been exposed to a ram, due to lamb in April 2018. EBVs from this year’s lamb crop data. Photo taken early June.

Offered for sale as a registered yearling ewe $300

This is a very well-built white ewe . Moderate on growth metrics, but strong on prolificacy; this girl will bring you solid twins with high vigor and will be an easy keeper.

EBVs from this year’s lamb crop birth data. Photo taken late-May. She is ready to go to a new home today!

Offered for sale as a registered ewe, bred $450

A well-built, white yearling ewe with strong growth and milk scores, modest prolificacy. She is ready to go to a new home today.

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 2017 lamb drop data. Photo taken mid-May.