Why we choose the Katahdin breed as our ewes and a little background of the breed. The Katahdin breed is a wooless, 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 lambers, 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.
We have been very pleased with how well the Katahdin ewes have performed as mothers. We lamb everything out on pasture so they must lamb on their own with the lambs getting up quickly to nurse right away and begin to move with their mother within an hour or so after birth. We have also been very pleased at how well the Katahdin/Dorper cross lambs have gained on pasture.
We have been very pleased with how well the Katahdin ewes have performed as mothers. We lamb everything out on pasture so they must lamb on their own with the lambs getting up quickly to nurse right away and begin to move with their mother within an hour or so after birth. We have also been very pleased at how well the Katahdin/Dorper cross lambs have gained on pasture.