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Offered for sale as a registered yearling ewe, bred $475

A dark mahogany colored ewe with a white krunet, tail and long socks. This is a petite ewe, but she packs a punch in growth EBVs, so don’t let her small stature fool you! This is the “holy grail” of meat genetics: lambs that grow fast to butcher weight, but then slow down, so they don’t turn into huge adults that are expensive to feed and hard to handle. Due to our tough 2016 fall and winter and my ewelambs being on grass hay for most of it, I didn’t get many of them to breed. But this one did, and had a big, beautiful fawn ewelamb. This ewe is a very slick coated sheep that sheds early and clean. She will make a solid mother for many years to come!

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 PWWT lamb crop data. Photo taken early August.

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

This is a big-bodied white ewe with more of the East-coast phenotype. She has good growth and prolificacy, a little lighter on milk. She is a good mother.

EBVs from 2018 lamb crop WWT data. Photo taken Aug 2017. Her twin white ram lambs will be weaned mid-August, or she can go with one or both of them sooner for an extra fee. Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/1, 2/2

Offered for sale as a registered ewe $350

This is a gorgeous, full-bodied and meaty ewe, with chocolate coloring and white spots on her face and legs. She has very good growth and milk scores, with lower prolificacy, so a great combo for those triplet-haters out there!

EBVs from 2017 PWWT lamb crop data. Photo taken early August. This ewe is ready to go to a new home and breed today!

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $475

This is a beautiful buckskin ram with a white krunet marking. Really strong PWWT score, good milk, and modest prolificacy. He’ll make a good terminal sire, and will produce replacement ewes that throw growthy lambs but steer clear of triplets most of the time.

EBVs from 2017 lamb 120 day weight data. Photo taken early July. This ram is weaned and ready to go to a new home today.

Offered for sale as a registered ram lamb $475

A very standard white ram with solid growth numbers and strong prolificacy, survival and milk. This pedigree is a total outcross of two parents from out of state, so brings in very diverse genetics to the PNW. The sire is from Iowa, from John Bare’s Thistle Grove Farm. The dam is from David Coplen’s Birch Cove Farm. Both are breeding programs very focused on EBVs and maternal performance, and nearly everything in this pedigree is from top NSIP producers around the country. He makes the NSIP Stud Certified status as well as the NSIP Maternal Certified, which is very hard to get, and he’s the only ram lamb here this year to achieve it.

Annoyingly, this ram has scurs, at the very least, but they may turn into horns, so I have discounted him accordingly. His sire is scurred, and I found that he passed these genes on to about 5-10% of his lamb crop (rams only) each year. Scurs and horns are acceptable in our breed, just not preferred. So it seems a shame to waste these great maternal genetics over a cosmetic issue. Use him to produce butcher lambs and some great replacement ewes!

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

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.