At Dayspring Farm we select the best or superior animals from our flock for registration. Other keeper ewe lambs go into our commercial line of sheep or are raised for meat. All non-keeper  lambs are raised as slaughter lambs.

  Katahdins:

The Katahdin breed is a wool less, easy care, meat type sheep, naturally tolerant of climatic extremes and capable of high performance in a wide variety of environments. The purpose of the breed is to efficiently produce meat.

Katahdins are a heavy-muscled, medium-sized breed. They demonstrate adaptability by performing well in areas varying in geography, temperature, and humidity, feed and forage resources, and management systems. Ewes are easy at lambing, and exhibit strong maternal instincts and good milking ability. They possess high potential for early puberty, fertility, and lamb survivability.

Lambs grow and mature rapidly to an acceptable market weight range and produce relatively lean and well muscled carcasses with a very mild flavor.

Dorpers

These are also a hair sheep which shed in summer. Dorpers are a striking looking sheep with a distinctive black head and are noted for excellent tender meat and fast gain rates. These sheep have many of the same qualities as the Katahdin breed but are fasted gaining and are a  rare sheep breed in the US.

Rams.

Using either Katahdin or Dorper registered  rams on a ewe flock will allow registration as percentage and ultimately as Purebred registered status for succeeding generations. And using our rams on a wool flock will eventually result in shedding sheep. We recommend using good registered rams not only for flock improvement but to increase the flock value through registration.

 

See our order page for lamb meat sales. or our woodshop page for sheep equipment.

 

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