Category: PetsForSale

Offered for sale as a registered pet Katahdin ewe $300

Big bodied chocolate ewe with white star, eight years old.  She is a great ewe with very strong EBVs, but hitting the end of the line with her udder health, so priced accordingly. She can probably raise one lamb adequately, two may be a push, so she should be monitored in future years. Sire is from Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, DVM, in Iowa). Dam traces back to KRK (Karen Kenagy, OR and Aspen Mountain (Aileen Scott, MT). Lambing record starting as a two year old: 2/1, 2/2, 2/2, 2/2, 3/2, 2/0. (2023: pulled one to orphan rear, then the other one perished from clostridium, which is not her fault.)

Photo taken May 2022. EBVs from 2023 lamb crop WWT data. This ewe has been genotyped.  This ewe’s lamb is weaned and she can go to a new home today.

Offered for sale as a registered Katahdin ewe $275

Tall and framey white ewe. Modest on growth and survival, but good milk and prolificacy scores. This ewe came from Mary Bakko’s place (Misty River Farm, Moses Lake) when she retired; and she is a fairly tame and very assertive girl. She can be a fearless ringleader at spotting an open gate and dashing through it while the others all follow, but is also helpful as a herd boss when you want the mob to go somewhere.  She has been a productive ewe, but missed lambing in 2021 and again this year, so she may be declining in productivity, this she’s priced as a pet. She’s healthy as a horse and in good weight, so she may be fine to lamb again for several years to come. Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/1, 2/2, 2/2, 3/3, 2/2, 3/3, 0/0, 1/1, 0/0

Photo taken May 2023. EBVs from 2023 lamb crop WWT data. This ewe is NSIP genotyped. She is open and can go to a new home any time.

Offered for sale as a registered Katahdin ewe (pet) $275

Red brockle faced ewe, clean shedder. This is one of “The Madams”- 10 years old and still raising lambs. She should be able to continue to do so, I’m only dropping her because her EBVs are getting on the low side. She does have very good Parasite Resistance EBVs, however. She has a very old-school pedigree: White Post Farm (East Coast, now retired), Bert Martineau (one of the original Kat breeders in WA state, now retired), KRK (Karen Kenagy, OR), On the Lamb Farm (Sarah Jo Gahm, Arlington). Even PAS28L, so common in PNW pedigrees of yore. Lambing record starting as a two year old: 2/2, 2/2, 3/2, 3/2, 2/2, 3/0, 3/2, 2/1, 2/1. The last two years she was rearing lambs fine but lost one of twins each year to clostridium, which is not her fault.  Price just reflects her age, but I expect she could still raise twins for a few more years if given the chance and fed well, her udder is healthy.

EBVs from the 2023 lamb crop WWT data. Photo taken September 2023. Her lamb is weaned and she’s ready to go to a new home today.

Offered for sale as a purebred, registered Katahdin ewe, $300

Red baldface ewe with white hind socks. Strong growth and prolificacy  EBVs but more modest on survival and milk. Pedigree has Birch Cove (David Coplen, Missouri), Thistle Grove Farm (John Bare, DVM, Iowa), Misty Oaks Farm (Kathy Bielek, OH) and some local genetics. This mama is super maternal. This year she aborted twins a bit early and I was able to graft another lamb onto her easily, she loves having babies. But last year and this, despite a large udder, I’m feeling like she may not have that great of milk quantity and maybe should only raise a single or twins, at most, with readiness to supplement. So I’ve discounted her a bit because of that; she’d do best in a small homestead farm that feeds well and keeps close tabs on things. As you can see from the photo, she’s carrying great condition herself, she’s fat as a seal. Lambing record starting as a 2-year old: 2/2, 1/1, 4/2, 2/1.

Photo taken May 2023. EBVs from 2023 lamb crop WWT data.  She is NSIP genotyped. Her lamb is weaned and she’s ready to go to a new home today.

Offered for sale as a registered Katahdin ewe (pet) $275

Pretty white 8-year-old ewe with a modest frame size. She is a really mellow girl and a very dedicated mama who loves her babies. She has modest growth and survival EBVs, but is very strong in prolificacy and milk. But as she’s gotten older, her milk supply has dwindled, probably due to damage from subclinical mastitis in past years. This year she had twins and I let her raise a single, but even that one didn’t grow very well.  So she could be retired out as a pet, or if someone wanted to breed her to capture some of these diverse genetics, just be ready to supplement her lambs. This ewe is out of the now-retired Misty River flock and John Bare’s Thistle Grove Farm in Iowa, both dedicated NSIP flocks. Lambing record starting as a two year old: 1/1, 2/2, 2/2, 2/1, 2/2, 2/2, 2/1.

EBVs from the 2023 lamb crop WWT data. Photo taken May 2023. This ewe’s lambs are weaned and she can go to a new home today.

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

Standard ewe with red flecks. She is a really good mama and has nice lambs, but has a damaged udder from subclinical mastitis in a past year and can really only raise one lamb, thus I’m discounting her as a pet. But with supplementation or orphan rearing, she could give you good lambs for years to come. Or she can make a nice pasture ornament. Lambing record starting as a yearling: 1/1, 1/1/ 2/1, 2/2, 2/1.

Photo taken May 2019.  EBVs from 2023 lamb crop WWT data.  This ewe is NSIP genotyped. She has a white ram lamb at side that could go with her for an extra fee, or she can go when he is weaned in July.