| Meet Our Stud Rams: "Earl Ears" Phelps #771 Pictured above (L) on the auction block as the Reserved Champion Ram at 2008 National Sale. Pictured above (R) in March 2010; pictured (below) in January 2010. This ram sired the Best Headed Ram at the 2009 National Show held at the Big E Sept. 2009. We uesed this ram on most of our ewes for our 2010 lamb crop - look for those ears!! Johnson # 2809 (below) At his first show - as a Yearling - at the Woodstock Fair, CT this ram won Champion Natural Colored Border Leicester; his second showing at the National Show at the Big E Sept. 2009 he won Champion Ram and Best Head Colored Border Leicester Ram. This ram's daughter won the Best Headed Colored Border Leicester Ewe at the 2009 National Show. Another daughter won Reserve Champion Ewe at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival in May 2010. Pictured below (L) at Big E 2009, and (R) in January 2010. "Bubba" Mist O Morn #409 This Di Waibel ram is a thick meaty correct ram with a gorgeous fleece; these traits pass onto his lambs. We got him as a two year old ram, and have kept daughters in our flock to breed to our other stud rams. He has a great temperment and is ideal to loan out to 4-Hers to breed their ewes. Pictured (below left) Bubba's fleece; (below right) "in the ruff" - sheared; (below center) taken Jan. 2010. . "Tiger" Hopkins #825 Sire is "Al" (J&L Valenta Y203) ; dam ia a Koeppel ewe "Krispy"; he is full sister to Champion Ewe at the 2007 National Show at NAILE in Louisville, KY. This ram was first as a lamb at the Big E (Eastern States Expo.) and placed second as a Yearling at the National Show at the Big E Sept. 2009. We are keeping him to replace his father as a stud ram. Pictured below (L) as yearling at Big E 2009; and (R) January 2010. PAST STUD RAMS most of our home-grown ewe flock go back to either or both of these rams. "Randall" "Al Aluminum Head" Darling #0202 Valenta J&L Y203 (pictured in front) (we lost him summer of 2008) (we had to put him down due to injury- spring of 2009) Our first ram, some of his daughters Al sired lots of champions for us. He gave us big are still producing nice lambs for us. lambs with gorgeous fine fleeces. |











