2022 Lambing Summary

The past few year we have sent in an annual liver sample from healthy animals that we harvested for home consumption. This enables us to...

Weaning Lambs were weaned when the average age of the lambs were around 100 days old. At that point the ram lambs, ewe lambs and adult...

Why 60 Day Weights? We weighed the lambs to take their 60 day weights the end of May. We did it when the average age of the lambs were...

Lambing is as good as done (we think there is one ewe that still needs to lamb). We did not do pregnancy scanning for this years lambing,...

Getting parentage right is very important in any breeding program. We take a lot of care and try our best. Lambing in the barn has it's...

Looking Back at 2020

When weaning lambs, it is recommended to either move the ewes far enough away from the lambs so that they cannot see or hear each other...

We finished 2020 lambing a few weeks ago, this years lambing was interesting because in a way we were forced into an experiment to see...

Lamb Prosciutto, let me tell you, this is good, it is really good.

Breeding for parasite resistance has been a very enjoyable part of breeding with Katahdins, they have such great potential as far as...

We are as good as done with lambing, one ewe left to go ... A total of 287 lambs were born, 243 of the lambs came from adults and 44...

We post a lot about our rams but decided that it was high time to feature a good ewe line too. Bottlejaw is the smallest ewe in our flock an

It is that time of year, breeding is done, we completed ultrasound scanning the ewes, the first major snow storm is approaching and we...

This year we had a few lambs born as singles from mature ewes. This makes for very impressive specimens but it also makes it difficult to...

We first met you as rambunctious 6 month old ram lamb, being mister personality from day one. When you came down with meningeal worm...

We are as good as done with lambing for 2018 and decided to run preliminary numbers (we will update this once the last 10 ewes remember...

We decided to take the plunge and purchase an ultrasound machine to be able to do our own pregnancy testing this year. We have used...

This year we tried to better understand the change in weight gain of the lambs. Previous years we saw that growth slowed at a certain...

We raised 151 and 152 from 8 week old piglets. They came with their 3 brothers and after sending the boys off to the butcher that first...