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Ewe Flock for 2007 - 2008

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Margret, born a twin 4/17/02 came to us from Alan Leighton's "The Creeks Edge" in South Dakota.  Margret carries solid, black, moorit and spotting, she is a farm favorite and permanent member of the flock and known all over the country now for her "Bette Davis eyes".  Margret has become kind of famous having been the subject of many paintings, she is friendly, gregarious and loves attention. Margret shows her 25% AI lineage being a granddaughter of AI ram Askur.  She has a wonderfully large frame, meaty conformation and raises fast growing lambs, they're always eating!  She is a good mother and milker and has a lambing record of (1,2,2,2,2).  She has very soft medium to fine thel and silky medium thog.  Margret has a beautiful daughter in the flock (Josephine) sired by our AI Heli ram, 198L.  For large meaty lambs that Askur X Heli combination produces fantastic results!  Watch for  her lambs this spring. Margret was bred with our 2005 National Champion Icelandic ram Jager AI Ram Preston 01P 801R for Spring 2008 lambs

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Monika, a black spotted polled twin, born 4/22/04 carries moorit.  Another permanent addition to the flock she is a large ewe with a nice meaty conformation, is gregarious, intelligent, and inquisitive. She definitely has leader tendencies though no leader lines have been identified.  She has 12.50% Flekkur, 12.50% Hnykill, 12.50 Sveppur and 6.25 Heli for a total of 43.75% AI bloodlines.  She has an abundant black spotted fleece with patches of silver streaked throughout with medium to fine thel and rather coarse thog.  Monika twinned as a yearling raising her lambs with no assistance and has a total lambing record of (2,1,2,1).  She is an average + milker, an excellent mother and was bred to our 2005 National Champion Icelandic ram Preston in 2007.  Monika gave birth 04/08/08 to a beautiful single ram lamb who has his fathers looks!

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Josephine, a twin born 4/24/06 is a large bodied white ewe carrying solid and moorit.  She is the daughter of Margret and 198L so has 25.00% Heli and 12.50% Askur bloodlines and shows all of the promise of her genetics!  Josephine's fleece has lustrous soft fine thel and silky medium thog.  We're excited about adding her 2007 lamb Mora to our flock as well.   Josephine now has a lambing record of (1) and was bred with WPW Ram Freyr B34P 18T  for spring 2008 lambs.  Josephine is an excellent mother with good milking abilities.

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Granddaughter of our beloved Margret, Mora is a beautiful, single, dark moorit ewe lamb out of Josephine.  She has a large frame, good conformation, beautiful soft and thick, thel rich, dark moorit fleece and meaty build.  Mora has many AI bloodlines including 15.63% Heli, 7.81% Askur, 3.13% Dropi, 3.13% Bassi, 1.56% Dalur, 1.56% Hynkill, 1.56% Skreppur for a total of 34.38% AI.   Mora was bred with Valur for spring 2008 lambs.

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Freyja, is a white polled single born 4/16/06.  We are very excited to add this ewe to our flock!  Freyja came to us from "Jager Farm" in Massachusetts and is the only AI daughter by Dimon in North America at this time.  Freyja is 50.00% Dimon, 25.00% Eir, 12.50% Skreppur and 12.50% Hunn for a total of 100% AI. She is the daughter of BLW 520 M Chub Chub and granddaughter of Zola.  Freyja is deep chested, with very nice meat qualities, has a thick and thel rich fleece with fine thel and medium to fine thog, very plush, she carries gray, possibly moorit. Freyja was an out standing mother to her 2007 twin ewe lambs, rarely letting them out of her sight.  Freyja was bred for 2008 lambs to Jager AI Ram Preston 01P 801R . 

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Astrid, is a polled frosted black mouflon single born 4/16/06 to a yearling.  We are pleased to add this beautiful mouflon ewe to our flock from "Jager Farm" in Massachusetts.  Her mother, BLW 821R "Silky" had the most outstanding lamb fleece in 2005 at Jager Farm.  Astrid seems to be cut from the same cloth having a unique soft even thel rich fleece of charcoal and silver thel and silky fine thog, very beautiful.  She has a fantastic combination of AI bloodlines, 12.50% Dalur, 12.50% Hynkill, 6.25% Flekkur, 6.25% Flotti, 6.25%  Skreppur, 6.25% Butur for a total of 50% AI bloodlines and was bred VAI to Thokki in 2007.  Astrid is an extra milky ewe with great maternal qualities and now has a lambing record of (1,2).  Astrid had an unassissted delivery and gave birth to twin ewes by AI ram Thokki on 04/07/08. 

Ewe Lambs to be Bred for 2008 - 2009

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WPW EWE B3P Polled black badgerface single ewe (from a ewe lamb). Born April 24, 2008. 4 lbs., 5 oz. 45.3% AI blood (Askur, Bassi, Dalur, Dimon, Dropi, Heli, Hnykill, Hunn, Skreppur). Carries moorit and solid.   This adorable lamb has extremely fine, soft wool.

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WPW Polled white single AI ewe. Born April 9, 2008. 8 lbs., 7 oz. 68.8% AI blood (Askur, Heli, Lykill). Carries solid. May carry moorit. Wow, what a nice meaty build on this vigorous, happy girl.  She is stout, round all over, and very broad.  An excellent addition to our flock.  Sire: Lykill 03-977.  Dam: Inga WPW EWE B5P INGA 9S.

Rams to be Used in 2008 - 2009

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Valur,single ram lamb out of Nanna and the last son of our AI Heli ram 198L "Big Boy".  He is 25.00% Heli, and 12.50% Askur for a total of 37.50% AI bloodlines.  He has an amazing amount of medium-soft, silvery moorit fleece, large meaty frame, and excellent harmony.  He was bred with WPW EWE M5P 12T - Mora  for 2008 spring lambs. 

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AI Ram Mori 02-935 

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Mori is polled and moorit. Short and broad neck, good shoulders and conformation. Broad back and very muscled rump. Good leg muscling. Even and good moorit colour on the fleece, thick and lustrous fleece. Wool quantity well above average.
Mori is related to many AI sires and was mostly been used to produce moorit sheep in a small flock before he was bought to Southram. His progenies have good meat qualities and Mori is without any doubt one of the best coloured rams ever bought for AI.   Southram reports that his BLUP scores are 95 for carcass, 123 for fat grading, 112 meat qualities, 113 for prolifiacy and 112 for milking abilities.  He is Homozygous for moorit and carries spotting.
Mori hasn't proven himself as father to daughters so far but considering his pedigree he should produce good daughter's.  Mori was bred with  Nanna  for 2008 lambs.

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