KMC 7034

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

White 6-year old ewe with the East Coast body style and curly coat type (but sheds well). Modest growth and milk EBVs, but very high prolificacy: she had quads this year, which is extremely rare or me. Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/1, 2/2, 2/1, 2/2, 3/2, 4/1, 4/2. Sire from Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, DVM, Iowa), dam out of local genetics and White Post Farm (East Coast, now retired), and the old Bert Martineau line.

This ewe has had some wanderin’ lambs in past years, and she can get confused about what’s hers while she’s delivering, so I have ended up orphan rearing a couple, and often have to intervene to make sure she bonds. This is somewhat unusual for such maternal Kats, but I work with it because she’s so productive. In 2023 she had quads, I took two to raise and she accidentally laid on one teeny one, so only raised one. This year she also had quads, and I just let them be mob-reared in the barn. So she nursed 2-3 of them, and some or all also used the teat bucket and also bummed off every ewe they can! They look great.

Despite her having lower growth scores, her lambs always grow like gangbusters; and this body type with the short coat always really shows off the muscling, they are very framey. I like this ewe but am selling her because her index is starting to be on my lower end. She’ll be a good middle aged mama for a  starter flock and should have many more years left to lamb. Photo taken September 2023. EBVs from 2023 lamb crop WWT data. Her lambs are weaned and she’s ready to go to a new home today!

BWT WWT PWWT NLB NLW MBWT MWWT MAT$ HAIR
0.089 1.229 2.299 28% 12% -0.292 0.150 117.16 101.66
KMC7034
Triplet birth
DOB: 4/4/17
RR at codon 171
OPP 4,4LS
JRB14007 MOF1107 WJF0905
MOF4001
JRB1232 GF9329
JRB1034
KMC3032 SJG494 SWP06-214 CORNERSTONE
SJG78
KMC1030 BLM417
JJK0010