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 | 2012 RAMS ARE ARRIVING! | |||
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We are having an excellent lambing season this year - dozens on the ground by Christmas. We will be ready to sell our first brood stock ram lambs in April or May. We have already begun our waiting list however, so contact us early. We do not offer all of our ram lambs for sale as breeders, only those that we would willingly keep for ourselves as flock sires. (Remember HALF of your flock's genetics come from your ram!) Price will range from $300-400 on breeding stock quality ram lambs. Our number one selection criteria for over ten years of raising Katahdins has been for parasite resistance. We have culled out any and all sheep that have shown repeated need for deworming. All lambs do need to be watched for their first year as well as yearling ewes having their first lambs, but if an adult Katahdin needs to be dewormed repeatedly - it needs to be out of the gene pool! Last year we dewormed our lambs when first turning them out on Spring pasture, and dewormed a small percentage later in the Summer based on FAMACHA scores. We only dewormed a very few adults at all. After parasite resistance we look for long-term productivity in our ewes and fast growth in our boys. We have ten year old ewes still twinning and milking well. Last year on exceptional pasture we had our meat lambs hitting 90-100 pounds in five months without creep or supplemental feeding, except some grain for energy during lactation of the ewe. Chigger Ridge Ranch | ||
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The below pictured rams are NOT for sale. We often get asked for photos of our current main sire rams, so thought we would include them here. | ||
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 | Zea Man 3 is a two year old flock sire of our breeding. He has only been dewormed once in his life, has an excellent coat, and shows very nice conformation. He is from a line that tends to twin and triplet consistently. He threw very fast growing lambs last year. | |||
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 | George is out of a ram we bought from Mark Dennis of Country Oak Ranch in Louisiana. He shows his sire's muscling and coat. He is very non-aggressive for a ram, is extremely parasite resistant and has been producing wonderful offspring. | |||
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The "Boys" from behind. | ||||
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e-mail: info@chiggerridge.net | ||
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