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CANADIAN QUALIFIED SEMEN AVAILABLE FOR SALE.

 PAWS UP 155 BANDO 1475 (1093553 CDN, USA 13967290) SIRES MODERATE FRAMED CATTLE THAT EXCEL IN STRUCTURAL SOUNDNESS WHILE STILL HAVING GOOD PERFORMANCE AND CARCASS TRAITS. NOT THE BEST IN ANY TRAIT BUT A VERY WELL BALANCED TRAIT SIRE, 1475 WAS LOST TO AN INJURY BUT WILL CONTINUE TO BE USED HEAVILY IN OUR PROGRAM THROUGH A.I..  HIS SONS HAVE MET WITH GREAT ACCEPTANCE BY OUR COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS AND HIS DAUGHTERS ARE SOME OF OUR BEST YOUNG COWS, WITH BEAUTIFUL UDDERS AND THAT BROOD COW LOOK. BANDO 1475 CALVES ARE BORN EASILY AND ARE VIGOROUS AT BIRTH. DISPOSITION IS EXCELLENT.

OFFSPRING ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FOR SALE, CHECK OUR OTHER LISTINGS OR CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.

This is the second of a pair I held for someone on spec. I will know if they are spoken for on Mon. Sept. 18. If you are interested in a really good pair of registered Canadian Arcott ewe lambs, don't hesitate to get in touch, I will let you know immediately if they are available on that date.

One of the best of the bunch this year, when the large group sold we specifically chose two to hold on spec., this one really stood out. At 111 days she weighed 91 pounds, which is pretty good for a twin ewe lamb. Her sire 941G is affectionately known as "The Tank"; his dam is out of Alice 333A, and the dam 997G is out of Clover 540C. Look no further for the best producers on a pedigree than those two ewes. They never put a foot wrong.

This is a really good lamb and she will do anyone proud. She is paired up with 160L, who is another really good one.

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SEMEN AVAILABLE IN CANADA FROM COYOTE ACRES. U.S.A. SEMEN AVAILABLE FROM CALLIER FARMS IN MISSOURI OR REED ENTERPRISES.

103T IS A GREAT SIRE OF PRODUCTIVE FEMALES WITH LONGEVITY. HE IS A MATERNAL MASTER WITH GROWTH AND CARCASS TRAITS THAT ARE STILL QUITE ACCEPTABLE, BEING CLOSE TO BREED AVERAGE. HIS DAUGHTERS MILK WELL WITH BEAUTIFUL UDDERS AND SMALL TEATS. HE ALSO SIRES A LOT OF PIGMENT WITH MANY OFFSPRING HAVING FRECKLED FACES (AS THEY GET OLDER) AND PIGMENT ON THEIR UDDERS. IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT BUILDING A FUNCTIONAL COW HERD, RHF IGT VICTOR 103T IS A SIRE THAT WARRANTS YOUR CONSIDERATION.

EMBRYOS AVAILABLE FROM KLONDIKE JUNE 594B (PC02509464) 2007 EPDS

A) SIRED BY RHF IGT VICTOR 103T (PC02787045) 2007 EPDS

B) SIRED BY KCF BENNETT 774 H119 (PC02837343) 2007 EPDS

C) SIRED CMF RF GENETIC PHASE (PC02837345) 2007 EPDS

Lots of British genetics here! A son of Piddington Nico and a grandson of Hornpipe Blackbird, this AI-sired twin weighed 82 pounds at 76 days of age. Growth and muscle, along with excellent breed character! Scrotal 34 cm. Scrapie genotype RR.

Why did we name this ram lamb Wow? Because he weighed 75 pounds at 54 days of age, that's why! Son of the Badger 148D ram, this will be a big, impressive ram lamb. The big shot of Burndale is another plus. And he could be yours! SOLD! Thanks Henry!

 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 8 years old, and just 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 just used him again for January 2024.

WILL SELL AS A PACKAGE OR INDIVIDUALLY.  Will be a number of ewe lambs available either privately or through our sale in August. Contact for more information. The photos show the group, individual listings are coming up as time allows!

204L is a son of a Janicki ram that is pretty much an outcross for most Canadian flocks. His dam goes back on the paternal side to British genetics and on the maternal side to the flock of Monte Forster in Oregon. 204L is a long bodied individual. Scrapie genotype is pending. 204L shows and sells in the All Canada Classic in Barriere, BC, July 7-6.

Probably my best Horned Dorset ewe lamb from the January lamb crop. Her sire 996G is my main flock sire. I really like his lambs of both sexes, but especially his daughters. They are quickly becoming my best ewes. I should be keeping this one, but have decided to enter her in the All Canada Classic in Barriere, B.C.. She is long on British genetics with a large shot of genetics from the Monte Forester flock from Oregon (one of the best traditional US flocks that has now been dispersed). See her in Barriere July 7-8.

A wonderful daughter of 996G, my British sired flock sire. 156L's dam is a British AI sired ewe from a dam stemming to Forester (Oregon) and Janicki (Washington) breeding. This mating works well and I have sold a number of full siblings as well as bred the dam back again for September lambing.

266 is a little younger ram with a different pedigree. He has the Shepherds Fold flock on his sires side. A flock known for good productive females. He is a very nicely put together ram lamb and has enough length and capacity to sire an excellent set of daughters. His dam goes back to British genetics on the sire side. One of my favorite ram lambs from the January/February group. WEIGHT ON JULY 31- 139 lbs. Scrotal 29 cm.

Link to full pedigree Pedigree | Canadian Livestock Records Corporation (clrc.ca)     Video https://youtu.be/Ms9jS7RVGb8 

176L was our fastest gaining Polled ram lamb. He is scurred but I wouldn't let that hold you back. His dam is on our accelerated lambing schedule and has raised some top lambs including the twin 177L and a flock sire, who has worked real well. A little larger framed but will fill out nicely. Ready to go to work. WEIGHT ON JULY 31-146 lbs. Scrotal 31 cm.

Link to full pedigree Pedigree | Canadian Livestock Records Corporation (clrc.ca)  Video https://youtu.be/2_cyyCO5zg4 

Oz 201L is a combination of Australian, Canadian and British genetics. He is a thick ram lamb with real good length of loin. He has lots of breed character and stands on a good set of feet and legs. His dam is on our accelerated lambing program and due again in September. WEIGHT ON JULY 31- 150 lbs. Scrotal 32 cm. Link to full pedigree Pedigree | Canadian Livestock Records Corporation (clrc.ca)  Video https://youtu.be/kUGYOl1aLsw 

The last son of what I consider to be the best ram I have ever raised. See the Reference Sire listing for Sheep Trax Canon 233K, and I will try not to gush. To have Clover 540C on a pedigree is always good. She is such a little scruff, and now she is 8 years old (and just weaned a set of May-born twins), she is missing an eye, if you saw her you would not look at her twice. But looks are deceiving, and she always throws better than herself, no matter what ram she is bred to. Canon 233K was the culmination of her productive life, as he is such a good ram. Anything I get after him is just the icing on the cake.

The dam is another example of some of my best, and she particularly throws high-growth lambs. As a lamb she herself grew so fast that every time I saw her I didn't recognize her. It was like there was a new lamb in the pen that I hadn't seen before. (To explain that, once the lambs reach a certain stage, I try to avoid going out to the lamb pen every day. If I only go out weekly, or even less frequently, I can spot the changes immediately.) That is the kind of growth 119D exhibited. She herself was a triplet, and she had two big piggy brothers. I tried to supplement her, but she wanted nothing to do with my bottle, and yet she was what may have actually been the fastest-growing ewe lamb I have ever had, before or since.

This twin ram was 11.2 lbs at birth, and 105 lbs at 112 days of age. Scrapie genotype QR. Muscle, stretch, good bone, smooth top. His twin brother is one of two Canon 233K rams that sold in the Badlands Summer Select  sale. He just keeps looking better by the week. This guy is available by private sale.

SOLD! Thanks to the Lethbridge Research farm for purchasing this ram!

Here is a twin ram lamb from a little rarer pedigree. The dam 28E is the only daughter of the 117D ram I have, and she is out of a Germanie ewe from Quebec. The sire 941G is a great example of the Canadian Arc 559X sons, as he is so typical- moderate sized yet extremely wide and heavily muscled, with the trademark calm temperament, and out of 104C, who is another ewe that keeps popping up on pedigrees (and an Alice 333A daughter, which is almost a guarantee of quality).

This guy had a twin brother that did not make the cut because of how he travelled (full transparency here), but he was really big, a super fast grower. This ram was a little less extreme, but that is not always a bad thing, as it allowed for proper long bone growth. (To clarify, one of the major issues in this breed can be feet and legs; some rams grow so fast that their feet and legs can't keep up, and this is a trait that all purebred producers should be keeping a very close eye on if they are feeding for optimal growth.)

197L was 12 lbs at birth, and 96 lbs at 110 days of age. That may seem a little low, but he now blends right into the group, so clearly he is catching up. Update- as of early September 2023, I have to say he is starting to look really impressive! He has excellent bone, and loads of muscle. He may actually be really well suited for using on ewe lambs. Scrapie genotype QR. Available!

SOLD! Thanks to the Lethbridge Research farm for purchasing this ram!

Here is a young fellow who has a bit of a back story. The second-youngest of the ram lambs to make the cut, he is also the smallest. He was a twin, just 8.8 lbs at birth (his sister was just 5.5 lbs), out of a yearling ewe who sadly died when her lambs were just a few days old. Well this little orphan showed us just how well he could do. He weighed 67 pounds at 84 days of age. Not too impressed? Well, maybe we weren't either, but remember he was an orphaned twin.  When we went through the lambs to pick out who made the cut, we couldn't ship this one, there is just too much promise there. For one thing, despite the fact that a pile of ewes were bred to the Hammer 143H ram, they had mostly ewe lambs, and there are only two other 143H rams available, and one sold in the Badlands Summer Select. (Two others had already been sold.) Next, this ram lamb has so much potential, given time. He is long and well-muscled, has really good scrotal size, and he has a nice topline and great legs and feet. Scrapie genotype RR. I am prepared that he may not sell until fall or even until he is a yearling, but that's okay. He's available. 

The youngest of the ram lambs available, this guy is rapidly starting to blend right in with rams that are a month older. Patric often suggested he was not good enough, because he was rather gangly, until I reminded him that the ram lamb was much younger than everybody else. In the end, we hung onto him and he blossomed!

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 actual fact bad selection will make them worse far faster than good selection can make them better. She is a pretty darn nice ewe, and this ram lamb looks a lot like her. His birth weight was 13.5 lbs and he was 100 pounds at 83 days of age! Hammer 143H sons tend to grow, and it sure doesn't hurt them to go back to the Sawyer C 4Z ram. He has the typical heavy muscle of a good Canadian Arcott ram, along with great bone and a smooth top, and a nice long loin. Scrapie genotype QR.

Update- as of early September, look out world, this is going to be a big one. Available!

The last few years we have been very hard on our Shropshires. We strive to truly keep only the best to be sold to other breeders or to go into our flock as replacements. This year we kept just five January-born Shropshire ewe lambs, and this was the lone Sheep Trax ewe lamb to be chosen for the Badlands Summer Select Sale. She has everything I like in a ewe- stretch, thickness, bone, and muscle, yet still in a feminine package. I also love her open face. Shropshire breeders in the UK have long since opened up the faces and bred the wool blindness out, and now we are finally catching up. Lots of British blood in her pedigree, and her maternal grandmother goes back to my old Rimridge Sara ewe. WEIGHT ON JULY 31- 115 lbs. SOLD! Thanks Henry!

Link to full pedigree Pedigree | Canadian Livestock Records Corporation (clrc.ca) Video https://youtu.be/QGkQsFiJjZQ 

One of the nicest polled Dorset ewe lambs from January/February. I believe that the dam (British genetics on both sides of her pedigree) is due again in September, as she is on our accelerated lambing program. With lambing ewes every 8 months we do get a few more singles, but in the end we are still getting  more lambs per ewe per year. It is something I am working on improving but if it weren't for a shortage of feed and feed prices, this ewe lamb wouldn't be leaving. WEIGHT ON JULY 31- 117 lbs. Link to full pedigree Pedigree | Canadian Livestock Records Corporation (clrc.ca)  Video https://youtu.be/W3JYm680JDs  SOLD! Thanks Marlene!

114K is a top fall ewe lamb, sired by our Nimrod ram who is working well for us. Her dam 80E is on our accelerated lambing program, so a fall born single is not an issue to me. 80E lambed in May and will be bred again around sale time for next January. 114K is nicely put together and is bred for maternal productivity. WEIGHT ON JULY 31- 130 lbs. SOLD! Thanks Emma!

Link to full pedigree Pedigree | Canadian Livestock Records Corporation (clrc.ca) Video https://youtu.be/HgIo4B__iCs 

One silver male available from a litter of three! This little fellow is very much the runt of his litter. But he is super feisty and keeps right up with his big brothers. Please keep in mind that he has entered his fuzzy stage. As he outgrows his fuzzies, I will put up new photos which will show his markings much more clearly. He has some nice big spots that will turn into rosettes as he grows. He is a little guy, for sure, but great things come in small packages! Update- Sept. 11- what a sweetheart! He is still a little slow to get growing, and it is because he is stubborn as all get-out. He only wants to eat canned food. We are working on getting him onto dry food so he can eat whenever he is hungry! But what a little doll. I would love to see him go in a pair with one of these other little girls!

Please get in touch asap if you would like this little guy. Lorri sheepncats66@hotmail.com . And please be prepared to give a little information about yourself, your home and family,other pets, etc. It is essential that it be a good fit, and I want these homes to be for life, so NO IMPULSE BUYERS PLEASE. I need to know you are prepared for a Bengal, that you have some idea what to expect, that you understand the commitment, etc.

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The only seal lynx available from the summer litters. More photos and details about her personality will be added as she grows!

If you don't know the difference, seal lynx are the lightest of the snows and are the only ones whose eyes stay true blue. Seal mink are darker, their eyes will turn green, aqua, or gold, and  the really dark ones can actually look like a light brown when they are mature.

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The only seal mink female available! More photos and details about her personality and temperament will be added as she grows!

If you don't know the difference between seal lynx and seal mink, please read the listing for her seal lynx sister. 

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Catalina's litter is almost all snapped up already, but it happens there is one brown female left!

This is going to be a gorgeous kitten. Magnus and Catalina are producing the brown kittens I have been striving for for years. This kitten will not disappoint! (As if any kitten could ever disappoint.)

Let me know asap if you are interested as I feel this one will go quickly. More photos and details of her personality and temperament will be added as she grows. 

And yes, she has glitter!

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This is a really good ewe lamb, one of a pair I held for someone on spec. I will know if they are spoken for on Mon. Sept. 18. If you are interested in a really good pair of registered Canadian Arcott ewe lambs, don't hesitate to get in touch, I will let you know immediately if they are available on that date.

Sired by the VCSF 519F ram, out of a Polycott 551Y daughter, and the other animals on her pedigree are loaded with the good old Sawyer genetics that I love so much. There are still a few breeders using some old Sawyer lines, but in my opinion they are not doing enough to differentiate those lines, and everything is getting wound up to the point that the lines are not so separate anymore. This one will push back a little further, and there is nothing wrong with that. The closer to the release, the better, in many cases. This is a nice twin ewe lamb whose twin sister can be seen at the top of the page in the photo gallery at her 4-H show at Medicine Hat.

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Here is a lovely big boy for someone to consider who would be willing to take on a ***POTENTIAL*** special needs cat. He was previously spoken for, but his new family has changed their minds. UPDATE- hen they changed it back, after his ultrasound results. He has gone with his brother!

On Sept. 19th this litter was vet-checked and vaccinated. Our vet routinely does a quick abdominal palpation, during which she discovered his left kidney is enlarged. 

On Sept. 29  an ultrasound was done. It shows that his left kidney is enlarged in the medulla region, and his right kidney is normal. It is not known precisely why, but a lot of possibilities can be ruled out because he has no symptoms. It is probably idiopathic (no specific cause can be isolated), and my vet feels it is congenital (happened in the womb).

This kitten is NOT SICK, not by a long shot. He is an absolute joy to be around, he is a nut job most of the time, he is unusually large for his age (1.3 kg at just 8.5 weeks old!!!), he eats like a horse and plays like no tomorrow. 

My vet feels that rather than start monitoring his kidney function (a simple blood test) when he is older (7 or 8 years), his new family should begin monitoring it at a younger age (3 or 4 years), and then their vet can gide them from there. Monitoring kidney function is something all cat owners should be prepared to do in aging cats anyway, so this is not a big deal, she just feels his monitoring should start sooner.

For those of you who enjoy the TV show Mountain Monsters, this fellow has been nicknamed The Wampus Beast. His brown brother, who he was supposed to be going home with, is nicknamed The Grafton Monster. Their tiny little brother is Huckleberry.

SOLD