We wrote down our goals for 2022 lambing months before we set up the breeding groups. Then as we set up the groups in November we used the goals to guide our decisions, and double checked to make sure all the ewes were in with the rams that would get us closer to those goals.
2022 goals were:
Harry's breeding group
This was the second year we used Harry. Harry is white, has a very fine, dense fleece, is polled and is very well built. We were able to give him a big group of ewes this year as he proved himself in his first year and produced some very nice lambs for us.
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| Tovia |
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| Brienne of Tarth |
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| Adelina |
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| Gilly |
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| Arya |
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| Sif |
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| Tovia |
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| Elara |
Sebastian's Breeding Group
Sebastian is Itasca's grandson, is built very nicely and is black based. He is scurred, but because we are breeding him to so many polled ewes, the scurring won't have a big impact on our goal to produce a flock of primarily polled sheep.
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| Lokola |
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| Eir |
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| Lucretia |
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| Belva |
Jon Snow's Breeding Group
Jon Snow is a grey katmoget, with a very fine, dense and long fleece. We have used him as a breeding ram for a few years, so he has a good amount of influence in the flock and has made a great contribution towards longer staple length while retaining fineness. He has a very low spinning fineness even at 5 years of age, which is a trait we are selecting for.
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| Jon Snow
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| Lakshmi |
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| Ofeibea |
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| Sarin |
Duncan
Duncan is out of Yuki and Knightley - Yuki continues to impress us as she matures with a lovely fleece and beautiful appearance - she is a solid ewe. One of the few ewes that we wish maybe was a ram as she exhibits all the traits we are after at a very high level. Her lamb Duncan could be that ram, and so we decided to use him to get the body we like and want to get lambs that look more like him and his mother. Duncan is a spotted fawn katmoget.
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