Offered for sale as a purebred, registered Katahdin ewe $660 w/ ram lambs at side
White 6-year old ewe with the East Coast body style and curly coat type (but sheds well). Modest growth and milk EBVs, but very high prolificacy: she had quads this year, which is extremely rare or me. Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/1, 2/2, 2/1, 2/2, 3/2, 4/1, 4/2. Sire from Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, DVM, Iowa), dam out of local genetics and White Post Farm (East Coast, now retired), and the old Bert Martineau line.
This ewe has had some wanderin’ lambs in past years, and she can get confused about what’s hers while she’s delivering, so I have ended up orphan rearing a couple, and often have to intervene to make sure she bonds. This is somewhat unusual for such maternal Kats, but I work with it because she’s so productive. In 2023 she had quads, I took two to raise and she accidentally laid on one teeny one, so only raised one. This year she also had quads, and I just let them be mob-reared in the barn. So she’s nursing 2-3 of them, and some or all are also using the teat bucket and also bumming off every ewe they can! They look great.
Despite her having lower growth scores, her lambs always grow like gangbusters; and this body type with the short coat always really shows off the muscling, they are very framey. I like this ewe but am selling her because her index is starting to be on my lower end. She’ll be a good middle aged mama for a starter flock and should have many more years left to lamb. Photo taken September 2023. EBVs from 2023 lamb crop WWT data. Price reflects her going with two wethered ram lambs before 6/30. After that prices will go up.
| BWT | WWT | PWWT | NLB | NLW | MBWT | MWWT | MAT$ | 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 |