The limited number of mature ewes we had for sale sold quickly. Our next lamb crop is due in November, and we hope to have weaned ewe lambs available in early 2012. If you were already on our notification list, you will be contacted. If you would like to be removed/added, please email me.
Due to internal genetic growth in the K Bar K flock, we have decided to retain the worthy UK-sired ewe lamb as replacements.
As a result, we will not be selling any of these young ladies.
We will be selling UK-sired rams in early 2012. If you haven’t already, contact me to be put on the notification list if you’re interested. Or watch this blog.
Fall breeding season will soon be upon us. We have yearling rams (and one stud ram we’ve used enough) waiting to go home with you and romance your ewes……….. contact me for details.
Short note that the spring lamb crop was weaned this weekend (it’s NOISY here!). I should have ewe lamb sales list available in mid to late July now that I have ultrasound scheduled for early July.
I also put rams in with about 100 ewes for some November lambs, and we’ll hopefully have more sheep for sale from that crop later this winter.
Finally, we finally got all the rams shorn. For those of you who have our sales list, I updated pictures of the rams for sale. If you’d like a sales list, please email me at info@kbarkfarm.com
The grass is finally growing well, the sheep are getting fat and sassy on grass, but this blasted rain won’t quit! I’m thankful to not be a crop farmer this year!
We will be weaning the UK-sired lamb crop on June 4, when I will also be putting rams in for fall lambs. I am currently scheduling ultrasound (loin eye and back fat) for sometime in late June/early July. This way I should get the EBVs back from Lambplan around July 20, then make selection decisions. At that time I will put out the ewe lamb list.
We still have rams for sale. They, too, are getting fat on grass and are waiting for some girls to court…….
I have the yearling ram list available. I emailed it to those of you who expressed interest. If I missed you (sorry! ) or if you’d like information, please email me at info@kbarkfarm.com .
These rams were born between February and April 2010. Other than some creep feed for the Feb-born lambs (until turnout on pasture April 1, 2010), they have not seen any grain. They were overwintered on mediocre quality orchardgrass hay.
Some are 25 or 50% UK genetics (F2 generation).
At this time I have transport available (via another Dorset breeder) to (approximate dates):
May 27 Wooster, OH
June 18 Sedalia, MO
May 7-8 MD Sheep and Wool Festival (we will be going)
Buyer would be responsible for arranging transport from these points to their destination
I am receiving a lot of email requests for our sales lists now that the new crop of lambs is on the ground, so I thought I’d give an update.
I expect to have a list of UK-sired ewe lambs and possibly some mature ewes (to make room for the new UK genetics) sometime after weaning. When is weaning? Good question.
I expect weaning to be sometime between mid-May (60 days) and mid- June (100 days). I need to submit the weaning data to Lambplan then have time to analyze the EBVs to make culling decisions.
As soon as I can get my working chute re-assembled now that lambing is over, I need to work the yearling rams through the barn to assess them for sale. They most likely won’t be shorn yet, but I hope to have that list put together sometime in mid- to late April.
The UK-sired ram lambs (born this month) will not be available until late 2011 at the earliest. I need to let them grow out a bit to gather more post-weaning information for Lambplan, as well as have them genotyped for scrapie resistance at Codon 171. I know all will be QR or RR as both UK sires were RR at Codon 171.
For all sales lists, I will email it to those of you who have requested that you be put on my notification list. I will also post here that the list is available, in case I missed anyone. If I do, send me an email.
