Canadian Arcott Sheep

A word to anyone who is considering importing Canadian Arcott females into the US. First off, you will NOT regret it. As you see on this web page, this is not a Rideau. They will not have quads and quints. They will lamb out at about 180% (maybe a little higher if you flush well and only lamb once a year and at the right time of year). But those lambs will GROW. If you are looking for muscle and growth, moderate-sized (and therefore less costly to feed) sheep that tend to have a very nice temperament, sheep that can be run on pasture or in confinement, please get in touch! This is the ideal sheep for producing lambs that will get to market weight sooner, and save you money in feed costs.

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NOTE- all ewes entering the USA must be scrapie genotype RR. SInce we sell May and September lambs in our two production sales, it is the January crop that is available by private treaty. We would appreciate a lot of lead time so we can figure out which females to genotype, either for private sale or in the sales if you are looking to bid. We do not have all the ewes genotyped, but all of the rams are. Thus we can eliminate any ewe lamb that is sired by a QQ ram (though I only have one) or out of a probable QQ ewe. 

ALSO NOTE- and yes, I can provide rams for a starter flock too. I use 11 sires, and next year I am going to be up to 13. No worries there. Also ask about semen if you are looking to AI. Ram collection did not start this year as the cost of feed and trucking was so exorbitant. Rams are slated to be collected in 2024, probably four. And another four in 2025. So if AI is your method of choice, at least in the next couple of years, we can look at that as well. I am not really collecting them to sell, rather to preserve the fullblood lines. So I don't care if they sit in the tank for years, but they will be export eligible.

Lastly, our local vet is certified by the CFIA  to do all the testing and the paperwork! And speaking of testing, be sure to contact your state vet to find out what tests need to be done. This varies by state.

Single out of a yearling; birth weight 13.5 lbs.; 100 pounds at 83 days of age. Long, deep, thick, and grew like a weed. Scrapie genotype QR. The youngest ram lamb that made the cut, he rapidly became the biggest Canadian ram in the pen! Goes back to the Sawyer C 4Z ram, as well as both AI sires. What more can you ask for?

His dam is a daughter of the first-generation Polycott 551Y ram, and a granddaughter of the foundation Canadian Arc 559X ram. These are the sheep that hit the reset button, back to the beginnings of the breed. Again, I have to reiterate that any breeders who feel that in 30+ years we should have "improved" this breed by leaps and bounds is not giving enough credit to the people in the program that created it in the first place. They knew what they were doing, and they knew what they were attempting to produce. Let's not be arrogant about how much we can improve them when in reality, bad selection will make them worse far faster than good selection can make them better. (Grading up would make them worse yet.)

This ram has been selected to sell in the Badlands Spring Select Sale in June 2024. Because of his younger age (he was the very last ram lamb born in the winter group), we just left him to do his thing. He has never been offered for sale, and when I saw how good he looked in the fall, I immediatley earmarked him for the June 2024 sale. And now he is a bruiser! Well worth the wait!

Again, if you want to know the story behind the prefix, e-mail me. It's a long story.

An in-dam purchase from Don Johnston's Sky Blue flock, this guy is sired by a really good Sheep Trax ram and out of a ewe that goes back to my beloved Sheep Trax Angus 366A. Buying back from Don allows me to bring back in lines that are getting scarcer by the year. 

Please note- though he looks black in the photos, he is actually an extremely dark brown.

Like the 245L ram, if you want to know the story behind the prefix, e-mail me. It's a long story.

An in-dam purchase from Don Johnston's Sky Blue flock, this guy is sired by a really good Sheep Trax ram and out of a ewe that goes back to the FCLB 43895C ram from Quebec. The grandsire 260F can be seen in the photos at the top of this page, he was the Champion Ram at the 2019 Priddis & Millarville Fair. This grandson is carrying on the thickness and smoothness of the FCLB ram (260F's sire), who left his stamp on a lot of sheep. 

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 In mid-January of 2019 the first batch of AI-sired Canadian Arcott lambs hit the ground (softly). In 2019 we once again AI'd to these old rams. All of the AI-sired ewe lambs are staying here and the available rams are all sold. I was so happy with the G crop that we AI'd again, and the H crop was just as good.

 What an incredible opportunity this has been to take the breed right back to the beginning! The lamb pictured is a son of Sheep Trax 258D and Polycott 551Y. He shows exactly what I was looking for from these sires- excellent length, good bone, and that topline! Topline can be an issue in this breed, with so many breeders pushing for ribeye muscle depth and selecting based strictly on Genovis numbers, and these early animals are showing the capability to keep that topline straight. We are also carefully checking feet. So far these lambs are looking great!

Now we proceed with the legacy of these two rams, breeding their sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters. It is very gratifying to see a foundation ram and a first-generation ram making their mark 30+ years later. It is also really interesting to note that in those 30+ years we have not really been able to improve on the breed. And I don't think that is a bad thing. It is fairly arrogant to think that we could have done so much to improve them, because this was a phenomenal breed from the start! This opportunity to 'press reset' has been nothing but good and I am excited about the future of Sheep Trax Canadian Arcotts.

On Aug. 12, 2021, I AI'd another dozen ewes to these two rams, and 8, or 2/3, caught to AI; three caught to Canadian Arc 559X, and five to Polycott 551Y. This is the last of my straws, so once again, rams will be for sale but ewe lambs will stay in the flock! UPDATE- from that AI, I got a beautiful group of ewe lambs, I am over-the-moon happy with them, as I have been the other two times. What a phenomenal group of ewes! Also I am happy to say that in Sheep Trax Canon 233K I got what is probably the best ram I have ever raised. He is my favorite Canadian Arc 559X son, to stand alongside Sheep Trax Pol 943G, my favorite Polycott 551Y son. 

I cannot stress enough how these AI sires have corrected the two biggest conformation issues in the breed- toplines and feet. The consistency is so satisfying, I have hardly culled a ram lamb for feet in the last couple of years. And the straight tops are sure nice to see.

I had two tremendous ram lambs to choose between for my replacement for the 943G ram, that I unfortunately lost in late March 2023. Luke 161L was my choice. He is a son of Sheep Trax Ellyn 125E, who is one of my most productive ewes. She lambs out of season, and she routinely has triplets. Best of all, her grandmother is Sheep Trax Aspen 367A, who was another phenomenal ewe who was out of Sawyer C 104W. That is a ewe I love to see on a pedigree. (Three of the four grandparents you see on this pedigree go back to the Sawyer flock.) Secondly, he is a triplet, and while that is no guarantee of anything, it sure doesn't hurt. Thirdly, I love the look of him, as he is very smooth and correct, with good legs and feet and a nice straight top. His birth weight was 10.7 lbs and he was 108 lbs at 116 days of age. Scrapie genotype QR (just like his old Dad).This one stays. Update- I have lambs coming in May 2024 sired by this ram that I am anxious to see. He will be used again in the summer for January 2025 lambs.

I like this ram so much that I simply couldn't part with him; I sold a mature 559X son to make room in the ram pen (because I didn't need four). This whopper of a ram weighed 115 pounds at 76 days of age, and from very early on he stood out, he would be the first lamb I noticed, every time. He has the 559X stamp on him, and is very similar in type to the 38H ram. Scrapie genotype QR.

The dam, what more can I say about 540C? She raised this at 7 years of age, and lambed again in September and had a beautiful ewe lamb that sold in the August Badlands Select Sale, then had a set of twins in May. I have kept several of Clover 540C's daughters, but her rams were always sold to other breeders (her son was the high selling Canadian Arcott ram in the 2021 Genetic Impact Sale). Not this time. 

On July 26th, 2022 at 6.5 months of age, this ram lamb weighed 197 lbs. On Aug. 20, 2022 he was Champion Ram at the Priddis & Millarville Fair sheep show. Canon 233K was put with a group of ewes in August 2022; his lambs looked terrific. In fact, one of his triplet daughters sold for a 4-H ewe project at just 69 days of age! There is also a son out there who is his spitting image; two of his three Jnauary sons sold in the August Badlands Select Sale. 

233K was also bred to four more ewes for May of 2023. This resulted in a set of twin ram lambs; a single ewe lamb that I am keeping (because I have never kept a daughter of her dam, who is one of my best ewes and is now 7 years old); and two sets of ram & ewe twins. Look for any of these lambs who "make the cut" to be selling as yearlings in the June 2024 Badlands Select Sale.

And in 2023 he was used again, exposed to 11 ewes for January 2024. His lambs look great once again!

In the national flock, particularly in western Canada, there are two Sawyer rams that have had a pretty large impact, and those are Sawyer C 47T and Sawyer C 3X. In my personal flock, there is a ewe that has had a pretty big impact, and that was Sawyer C 76X. 76X was a daughter of 47T, and she was bred to 3X; the resulting daughter was 82Y. I pined for 82Y for several years, and finally was able to purchase her from the Lakeland College flock dispersal. I owned 76X, I purchased her directly from Colleen Sawyer; she has had many daughters, and grandsons and granddaughters, added to my flock, including 82Y, who is still here. And now 82Y has a daughter here, and this son as well. This ram is line bred (the 15H ram also goes back to the 76X ewe), and he will fit in here just fine. All those old lines are gone now. How perfect to breed her to a son of a first-generation ram too! This ram was a little small (any lamb would be whose mother is 11 years old!), but when we went through the rams, we liked what we saw. And now he is really coming along. While he has that maternal-type roman nose, he is also looking particularly butch, so it looks like he got the best of both. He is a keeper, to carry on the 76X/82Y line. *Scrapie genotype RR. This ram was just bred to a group of ewes for January 2024. Someone saw him in a photo on social media and inquired about him, so I put my "I don't want to sell him" price on him. Needless to say, he didn't sell. Thank goodness. This is a really good ram, with a pedigree that simply cannot be found elsewhere.

If it is not enough that Pol 960G was my pick of the 2019 AI Polycott 551Y sons, Sheep Trax Genesis 927G is one of my favorite ewes ever. Out of Alice 333A, who threw some of the most phenomenal females ever, she is sired by my beloved old Badger 83B ram. This is a pedigree that can't go wrong. This ram is growthy and correct, long and thick, with that trademark Badger coloring on the face and ears. As I do not have a Badger son,  a grandson is the next best thing, and being a son of the 960G ram, who sadly has died, ticks two boxes with one ram. Another bonus- scrapie genotype RR! This ram was used in December for May 2023 lambs, and was just used again in August for January 2024 lambs.

 This ram's dam is an AI-sired daughter of the Polycott 551Y ram, and her dam is one of those ewes that just continue to impress, Clover 540C (she keeps appearing on pedigrees!). She is still here, and lambed again in September 2022 (a single) and May of 2023 (twins). Being a C, she is 9 years old. She produced a phenomenal ram in January of 2022 (see listing for Canon 233K). This ram's dam (540C's daughter), Polly 998G, tends to lamb every 8 months and produced twins in January 2022.  Joe 129J  is standing out as perhaps the best ram of the May 2021 bunch (though I have to admit, I saw two from that crop that sold to Veteran Colony, and they sure looked good). Scrapie genotype RR. On July 26, 2022 he weighed 207 pounds. Because this ram is looking better and better all the time, and he is scrapie genotype RR, I left him up for sale but I also really like him, so I used him. This is one of those times where you can't quite put your finger on why he didn't sell, but other people's loss is definitely my gain. This is not a ram you ship if he doesn't sell, this is a ram you put to work in your own flock. The longer he has been here, and the more he matured, the more I realized I really didn't want to sell him at all. I used him again in a small synchronized group in 2023 so he has January lambs on the ground.  I do plan to use him in April for September 2024 lambs, as he has a good out-of-season record.

  What 188F passed on to his sons more than anything is length, along with good bone and great feet. This ram is a half-brother to Joe 129J.

I decided to keep this guy, as he was the only ram in existence at that time that was a grandson of the Romance 170E ram. I am confident enough in this young ram that I had him semen tested in April, and once he passed I exposed him to four ewes for September lambs (update on that, one did not cycle, the other three lambed in September!). His scrapie genotype is QR. This is a ram I could have sold, but because of that pedigree I chose to use him. And I have not regretted it. He is going to be the second cleanup ram in December for the May 2024 lamb crop, though, like 129J, I hope all the ewes catch on the synchronization and he has no one to breed. Also like 129J, he has a good out-of-seasn record, so he will be used in April for the September 2024 lamb crop.

Sheep Trax Hammer 143H is the Sawyer C 4Z son I selected to keep, to be a replacement for his sire. Scrapie genotype QR, this is a ram with great thickness, straight top, excellent bone, and loads of muscle. It didn't hurt at all to hold onto this guy. Just a year old in September of 2021, this ram was nearly as big as the yearlings and mature rams he lived with. The Sawyer genetics are strong in this one, as his dam's grandsire was also a Sawyer ram. Because he was heavily used for the 2023 lambing, he had last summer and fall off, but since he is a proven out-of-season breeder, he will be used in April for September lambs.

An AI-sired twin out of an AI-sired ewe, this ram and his twin sister have the most unique pedigree, having the first-generation ram Polycott 551Y ram as their sire and the foundation ram Canadian Arc 559X as their grandsire. In other words, this ram is 3/4 foundation stock! Talk about hitting the reset button!  Going back on his dam's side to the old Sawyer C 76X ewe is an added bonus, so he will really fit the plan. This ram needed a little more time, because he was a twin born to a ewe lamb that was 10 days shy of her first birthday. She did a great job with her lambs, and giving this guy more time was not a problem for me. He was used for breeding in the summer of 2021, and he has loads of lambs on the ground in early 2022. Scrapie genotype QR.

Though he is still not a huge ram and never wll be, he has bulked up considerably. Preparing to use him in April for fall lambs, I had this ram semen tested and his score was ridiculously high for out of season, so much so that, because of all the ewes he bred last year coupled with that great semen test, we have nicknamed him "Randy". I believe this ram is going to be the foundation of a very maternal line. In the 23 years I have had Canadian Arcott sheep, I have noticed (keep in mind this is anecdotal only) that roman-nosed Canadian Arcotts appear to be very maternal, and this ram is definitely roman-nosed. These roman-nosed Canadian Arcotts are a little smaller in stature, tend to have lots of mutiples, and the ewes are easy to graft lambs onto. If there is anything to the theory, then I would also venture to say that the rams are more fertile out-of-season as well. There are not a lot of Canadian Arcott breeders who do breed out of season, but for me it is another consideration. If a breeder selected only this type of sheep as replacements, they could really change the profile of their flock, so I firmly believe this type of sheep is to be used properly along with more terminal type animals, to keep the breed a good balance of both. I have kept four of his daughters this year, so it will be interesting to see how the theory plays out.

Update: All four of the daughters I kept are very typey, and they seem to be bearing the theory out. FIner boned and ultra feminine, the two triplet daughters at 5 1/2 months weighed 98 lbs and 104 lbs; the two twin daughters at the same age were 93 lbs and 94 lbs. They look to be very feminine and I will take care to breed them to a more terminal style of ram, but if the theory holds out, they will have more lambs over their lifetime and have other more maternal traits, such as breeding out-of-season and having lots of milk. Again, these things do not matter to all breeders, but to some of us they are another thing on the list to check off. It is important to be careful not to select on these types of traits alone, as doing so will change the profile of a flock. This is a meat breed, whose strongest traits are growth and muscle, and we have to remember that.

Single AI-sired ram sired by the foundation ram Canadian Arc 559X, and a grandson of two really good sheep: Alice 333A who was always a favorite, and Clovis 470C who went on to be a very good ram in other flocks.  This is a nice, compact, heavy muscled ram with a very laid-back temperament! As he matured, he just filled out non-stop, and has become simply a tank. If you could keep him still enough, you could safely set your beer down on the table of his back. His scrapie genotype is RR, and he is the only RR  of the 2019 559X sons. I  have used this ram and am very happy with his lambs. He also has lambs coming in January 2024.

Every once in a while you get access to the one that got away. I sold this ram in the 2019 All Canada Classic in Humboldt, to my good friends at Veteran Colony Sheep Farm. As many producers do, Joe at Veteran Colony used the ram for two years and decided to move him on. In an effort to avoid this stupendous ram being lost in commercial obscurity, I stepped up and bought him back. This is too good a ram not to be used in a purebred flock, so he has already got lambs on the ground in 2022. He is a single, but his dam was AI'd again the following year and that time she had tripets, so we will gladly overlook that. (The ram Sheep Trax Canon 38H, see listings, is from that set of triplets; clearly Dixie 258D was doing something right.) Scrapie genotype QR.

Sadly, we lost this phenomenal ram in March of 2023. I kept a triplet son to take his place (see listing for Sheep Trax Luke 161L). There are two daughters and one son from the May 2023 lamb crop that have made the cut. They will be offered in the Badlands Spring Select Sale in June of 2024. 

QQ single AI-sired son of the foundation ram Canadian Arc 559X, this ram does not only go back to the roots of the breed on his sire's side, but he is also chock full of old lines on his mother's side too. 966G is a great example of why it is not a good idea to select solely based on scrapie genotype. The pedigree on this ram dictates that scrapie genotype is irrelevant!   Lots of great Sawyer breeding there, from a ewe family that certainly knows how to grow. Sometimes it is the sheep that make our decisions for us. Canon 966G phenotypically rose to the top, and because of his incredibly unique pedigree he was selected to stay in the flock. This ram does not get heavily used every year, he is here for linebreeding to a specific ewe family. But he will be used again in future, every ram has something to contribute.

This is the ram I chose to keep sired by the old Sawyer C 58X ram. A triplet, his brother sold to a commercial flock and his sister is here producing lambs. Great conformation and muscling on this ram. He was used quite a bit in 2020 and put lots of good lambs on the ground. Damon 117D has May 2023 lambs on the ground. Unfortunately we felt that 117D's teeth were no longer what they should be, so at the age of 7 he was culled. It is hard to watch an aged ram try to get through an Alberta winter when he is struggling to maintain his weight, so we didn't let him reach that point. He has three daughters and a son from the May 2023 lamb crop that made the cut. One daughter is being kept (as I only have one), the other two daughters and the son will sell in the Badlands Spring Select Sale in June 2024. Happily, his daughter Sheep Trax Esmee 28E had twins in January, as did his granddaughter Sheep Trax Candy 50E; his triplet sister Sheep Trax Dancer 119D had a phenomenal ram lamb. So this line is not gone, and with a May daughter staying, I will keep it going as long as I can.

Here is a ram full of old lines with a family tree full of great old Sawyer and Zubot/Ivelcote animals. You cannot get this stuff anymore. This ram, scrapie genotype RR, a fall-born single, was going to show and sell in the 2020 All Canada Classic, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I am confident he would have done well in both the show and the sale. I sold a half-interest in this ram to someone not far away, and in the spring of 2022 I brought him home to use.  916F was used in a synchronized group, and then also used as the cleanup ram this fall, so there will be lots of his lambs running around in 2024. Update- 20 ewes confirmed pregnant to this ram, at least five are carrying twins. You cannot go wrong with lambs from a ram like this. He is crazy long, deep-bodied, heavy-boned, and as wide as a table top. The problem with width is that selecting exclusively for it can cost you in length. So when selecting, you still need to look for the length first, then the width, otherwise the sheep end up more square than rectangular. Never fear with this guy, he is a table, a train, and a tank all rolled into one.

This is a five-year-old ram I purchased from Veteran Colony in the summer of 2022. VCSF often only uses a ram for two years, but they thought enough of this guy that they used him at 1, 2, and 3 years old before deciding to move him on at 4 years of age. They have lots of his daughters in their flock. He is a ram with a great pedigree, being 100% Sawyer on his dam side and sired by a super ram I sold Veteran Colony 8 years ago. Sheep Trax Chevy 106C was in the "One that Got Away" category, as was his sire, Sheep Trax Clovis 470C. Chevy's dam was a half-sister of the ewe lamb I took to the 2015 All Canada Classic in Winnipeg, who won the market lamb show. Obviously these are lines to keep going!

This RR ram sadly passed away on New Year's Eve of 2023. He was incredibly long and had great bone and a straight top. He has January lambs on the ground, two ram lambs and a ewe lamb. There is one ewe exposed to him for May 2024, I will update after we preg check!

This twin ram lamb has shown the phenomenal growth represented on both sides of his pedigree. His sire was a very well-muscled triplet (whose sister was probably the fastest-growing ewe lamb I have ever raised), and his dam is now quite possibly the largest Canadian Arcott ewe in the flock (and her mother was undeniably the largest ewe in the whole flock, no matter the breed). There is a big British-style Suffolk ram lamb in the pen, and this guy is the same size. Just a big, growthy, thick, deep-bodied young fella. Scrapie genotype is pending. New photos will be put up after shearing. Look for this ram in the Badlands Spring Select Sale, on DLMS Farmgate, May 31-June 1.

Here is a ram for your consideration, especially if you don't have a problem with line breeding. This ram is line bred to just about the best ewe family you could ask for. Both sides go back to the old Sawyer C 104W ewe, and that was a ewe that could not put a foot wrong. The paternal grandmother Genesis 927G is a daughter of my beloved old Badger 83B, and the maternal grandmother 367A was Badger's half-sister- both out of 104W. I hate to keep repeating myself, but I will say it again- the animals that keep appearing on pedigrees are there because they worked, over and over again. This ram is smooth and long and has great bone. He is the one for those who like the color! Scrapie genotype is pending. New photos will be put up after shearing. Look for this ram in the Badlands Spring Select Sale, on DLMS Farmgate, May 31-June 1.

Twin-born ram, lots of growth and muscle on this guy! If you want something unusual on a pedigree, his dam was AI-sired by the old Romance 170E ram, something you will not find anywhere else (we had to do some pretty serious searching to find the last two straws!). And if you want something consistently good on a pedigree, well look no further than the sire Canon 233K. Not only is he out of Clover 540C (another one of those names that keeps popping up on pedigrees), but he is AI-sired by the foundation ram Canadian Arc 559X. Canon 233K was admittedly a single, but his dam raised him at the age of 7, and he was 115 pounds at 76 days of age. You want 'em to grow? Have a look at this guy. Scrapie genotype is pending. New photos will be put up after shearing. Look for this ram in the Badlands Spring Select Sale, on DLMS Farmgate, May 31-June 1.

Twin-born ram going back to just about every line I would pick if you asked me to create the ideal pedigree. Both AI sires, Canadian Arc 559X and Polycott 551Y, Clover 540C, and Delilah 192D who goes back to the Sawyer C 76X ewe family.  I think a lot of breeders who have not used my lines would be very surprised (and once he is registered I will check myself to prove it) to do a virtual mating to just about any of their ewes and see just how low the inbreeding coefficient on the resulting lambs would be. Don't believe me, see for yourself! And don't get me wrong, if you have not used my lines and you are line breeding, I don't have a problem with that! If nobody line breeds, and we all use the same thing, there won't be any more separate lines, there will just be one. 

Look for stretch and excellent bone on this ram. He should also have the lovely smooth shoulders that I specifically select for, I do not select big, square shoulders. This is a breed that is easy fleshing and knows how to grow big lambs, so lambing ease is facilitated by smooth, wedge-shaped shoulders. The 233K sire is programmed for growth and gain. Scrapie genotype is pending. New photos will be put up after shearing. Look for this ram in the Badlands Spring Select Sale, on DLMS Farmgate, May 31-June 1.

I am still on the fence about putting this ram in the Badlands Spring Select Sale. Pedigree-wise, he is unbeatable. However, due to the advanced age of his dam (she raised a set of twins at the age of 8, and I did not supplement them), I would like to see just a little more bulk on him. I reserve judgment until after he is shorn. (His sister, though- wow! She WILL be in the sale.) He is smooth  and long and correct, so I am reserving judgment on his thickness and depth until early May.

Pedigree-wise, though, he can't be beat. The Pol 943G ram sadly died in March of 2023.(He is still listed here as a reference sire so you can see what he looked like.) He was one of the best rams I ever raised. And Clover 540C? How many times can I say it? She just rocks.

Scrapie genotype is pending. New photos will be put up after shearing. Look for this ram, potentially, in the Badlands Spring Select Sale, on DLMS Farmgate, May 31-June 1.

Granddaughter of one of the AI sires (foundation ram Canadian Arc 559X) and great-granddaighter of the other AI sire (first-generation ram Polycott 551Y), this is a beauty of a twin ewe lamb. Going back to Genesis 927G means she also goes back to my beloved old Badger 83B ram. Her grandmother Daisy 126D is another of those names that keeps popping up on pedigrees, and in February of this year, at 8 years old, she had triplets! Can't go wrong with those ancestors! There is good length, growth, and size here. 

This ewe, like all the ewes in the group, will be ready for breeding this summer and you can confidently put her with a ram for this coming winter lambing. Look for this ewe in the Badlands Spring Select Sale, May 31-June 1, on DLMS Farmgate. There will be new, better photos after they are shorn! (If you need the ewes scrapie genotyped, please let us know asap so we can have it done in time for the sale.)

 The twin brother to this ewe is also  going to sell in the Badlands Spring Select. This ewe has excellent depth and thickness. Being a daughter of Harlie 91H means she is programmed to be a big girl, and she is also a potential accelerator, as her mother has previously lambed out of season. Harlie 91H's September 2022 daughter was the high-selling Canadian Arcott ewe in the 2023 Badlands Summer Select Sale. 

This ewe, like all the ewes in the group, will be ready for breeding this summer and you can confidently put her with a ram for this coming winter lambing. Look for this ewe in the Badlands Spring Select Sale, May 31-June 1, on DLMS Farmgate. There will be new, better photos after they are shorn! (If you need the ewes scrapie genotyped, please let us know asap so we can have it done in time for the sale.)

This ewe has a really interesting pedigree. The old 117D ram was a triplet son of a Sawyer ram and out of a Zubot ewe. The dam has an equally good bunch of ancestors. Her sire VCSF G782 was sired by my FCLB 43895C ram from Quebec (Veteran Colony brought some ewes here to be bred to that ram), and her dam was sired by my Pol 943G ram (who originally sold to Veteran Colony in the 2019 All Canada Classic, and I bought him back two years later). When animals worked for you, and you also know they worked for others, you appreciate your flock even more. This ewe is really thick and deep-bodied, and with those rams in her background she just can't disappoint.

This ewe, like all the ewes in the group, will be ready for breeding this summer and you can confidently put her with a ram for this coming winter lambing. Look for this ewe in the Badlands Spring Select Sale, May 31-June 1, on DLMS Farmgate. There will be new, better photos after they are shorn! (If you need the ewes scrapie genotyped, please let us know asap so we can have it done in time for the sale.)

Another one that is probably going to be a big girl. Her dam's mother, Chloe 535C, is a really big ewe. 535C is a twin out of Sawyer C 73R, who was 10 years old at the time, and raised the lambs just fine. She herself is now 9 and is lambing in May of 2024. There is longevity here! And the 13H ewe is also a big bruiser of a girl, who lambed again in February this year with a ewe lamb that weighed 43 lbs at 36 days of age. 302L's sire 943G was such a phenomenal ram, I can't keep repeating myself about that ram. Size, growth, and longevity!

This ewe, like all the ewes in the group, will be ready for breeding this summer and you can confidently put her with a ram for this coming winter lambing. Look for this ewe in the Badlands Spring Select Sale, May 31-June 1, on DLMS Farmgate. There will be new, better photos after they are shorn! (If you need the ewes scrapie genotyped, please let us know asap so we can have it done in time for the sale.)

There's Justice 212J again! Clearly a lot of his lambs from May of 2023 made the cut. (He can be viewed on this page as a reference sire.) Going back to Polycott 551Y, Sheep Trax Daisy 126D, Sheep Trax Badger 83B, and Sheep Trax Alice 333A means that 212J had a lot of the odds stacked in his favor. Polly 222K is also a Polycott 551Y daughter, so this daughter is line bred to a first-generation ram. The grandmother Candy 945G is one of my favorite ewes, who has been to more than one show in her lifetime.The depth, the thickness, the bone, it's all here.

This ewe, like all the ewes in the group, will be ready for breeding this summer and you can confidently put her with a ram for this coming winter lambing. Look for this ewe in the Badlands Spring Select Sale, May 31-June 1, on DLMS Farmgate. There will be new, better photos after they are shorn! (If you need the ewes scrapie genotyped, please let us know asap so we can have it done in time for the sale.)

If you like your pedigrees a little different, here is a ewe out of a GAVL ewe from Quebec. That ewe was finally culled just recently, at 8 years old; she had a good run here. She always produced good lambs, often had twins, and bred out of season. I loved her Germanie x Germanie pedigree. Sired by my favorite ram of all time, Sheep Trax Canon 233K, makes 324L a granddaughter of Clover 540C; this ewe is long and deep, thick and correct.

This ewe, like all the ewes in the group, will be ready for breeding this summer and you can confidently put her with a ram for this coming winter lambing. Look for this ewe in the Badlands Spring Select Sale, May 31-June 1, on DLMS Farmgate. There will be new, better photos after they are shorn! (If you need the ewes scrapie genotyped, please let us know asap so we can have it done in time for the sale.)

If Clover 540C isn't on almost every listing in one way or another, she sure comes close. She was 8 years old when she raised this ewe and her brother, and she is lambing again this May at 9 years of age. And being a daughter of the 943G ram makes this ewe just that much more special. There will be no more daughters of that ram (though there will be granddaughters and grandsons, as I kept a son last year). There is longevity here, no doubt about it. Of course that doesn't matter to everyone, but if it matters to you, have a look at this girl. The dam goes back to old Napkin Farm and Sawyer sheep, so that could appeal as well!

This ewe, like all the ewes in the group, will be ready for breeding this summer and you can confidently put her with a ram for this coming winter lambing. Look for this ewe in the Badlands Spring Select Sale, May 31-June 1, on DLMS Farmgate. There will be new, better photos after they are shorn! (If you need the ewes scrapie genotyped, please let us know asap so we can have it done in time for the sale.)

Granddaughter of one of the AI sires (foundation ram Canadian Arc 559X) and great-granddaighter of the other AI sire (first-generation ram Polycott 551Y), this is a beauty of a twin ewe lamb. Going back to Genesis 927G means she also goes back to my beloved old Badger 83B ram. Her grandmother Daisy 126D is another of those names that keeps popping up on pedigrees, and in February of this year, at 8 years old, she had triplets! Can't go wrong with those ancestors! There is good length, growth, and size here. 

This ewe, like all the ewes in the group, will be ready for breeding this summer and you can confidently put her with a ram for this coming winter lambing. Look for this ewe in the Badlands Spring Select Sale, May 31-June 1, on DLMS Farmgate. There will be new, better photos after they are shorn! (If you need the ewes scrapie genotyped, please let us know asap so we can have it done in time for the sale.)

***Special Note Regarding 283L! She had a lamb on April  17, 2024. This wether lamb will be weaning age June 16th. The ewe will sell with her lamb at foot, but we can also keep the ewe until mid-June, and buy the weaned lamb back (at current market price at that time). 

This is perhaps my favorite ewe I am offering in the Badlands Spring Select. She is very feminine, which is expected becaus eof her dam side. Her mother is sired by 15H, who priduces ultra-feminine daughters which I make it a point to breed to specific rams to bring the thickness and bone back up. This ewe is a single, but her dam is a triplet. Sired by the 212J ram, whose lambs seemed to really shine in 2023. She is long and correct with great bone and a smooth top, and lots of color if that's what you like.

This ewe, like all the ewes in the group, will be ready for breeding this summer and you can confidently put her with a ram for this coming winter lambing. Look for this ewe in the Badlands Spring Select Sale, May 31-June 1, on DLMS Farmgate. There will be new, better photos after they are shorn! (If you need the ewes scrapie genotyped, please let us know asap so we can have it done in time for the sale.)

***Special Note Regarding 308L: She had a lamb on April  17, 2024. This ewe lamb will be weaning age June 16th. The ewe will sell with her lamb at foot, but we can also keep the ewe until mid-June, and buy the weaned lamb back. Keep in mind that if you run a few commercials, this ewe lamb is straight Canadian Arcott, she is just not eligible for registration. Perhaps you can fit the ewe lamb into your flock too!