Meatmaker

This twin born ram has worked himself out of a job. We used him across the flock of over two dozen ewes and didn't get a dozen sons out of him because he gave litter after litter of daughters. He sired mostly twins, but even triplets although we give most of the credit for that to the ewes he bred. We have been calling him Meatmaker, but we should have named him Ewe-maker. We are retaining a number of his daughters, so he needs to go find work elsewhere.

His dam has been our most prolific ewe over the years, lambing for the first time before she was a year old (that actually was not planned by any humans), mothering up well and growing her lambs to the heaviest in the flock year after year. She will be turning eleven years old in the next few months, but hasn't had any trouble maintaining her weight. She has outlived her half sisters, but she and her two sisters were among the top performing ewes year after year.

This ram's sire was the result of breeding a ram from a Katahdin dairy farm to one of our chunkiest ewes that had produced our largest lambs every year until Meatmaker's dam came along and surpassed her. She will be turning ten this year, but although she's still lambing with twins, they are no longer the heaviest lambs weaned at this point.

Meatmaker has never tasted grain to my knowledge. We've never wormed him and he's helped clear brush or whatever he could forage or eaten hay when there's no adequate vegetation around. I'm expecting good mothering, ample milk, good parasite resistance and fast growing lambs out of this ram's daughters.

Meatmaker is halter broke and easy to handle once you get your hands on him, but he's not friendly.