Lambs For Sale
I am currently offering ewe and wether lambs for sale much like the ones in the photos below. They are sold for either butchering lambs, show stock or breeding stock.
GENERAL INFORMATION: Prices for all lambs regardless of sex will be a flat price of $150 each. That price is a flat price regardless of your use (butchering, breeding or showing). Anyone wishing to purchase lambs will have to come pick up their lamb on a prescheduled pickup day. If there are many people wanting lambs there will likely be more than one pickup day. Lambs that are not sold will go to market approximately one week before Rosh Hashanah (around mid to late September usually). A deposit of $25 per lamb is required when you decide you want a lamb and at least one week before pickup day. Payment in full on lamb pickup day is required. Pickup day will likely occur during the summer but before the trip to market in September.
BUTCHERING LAMB: Our male lambs are all castrated at a young age and we will pick out only the nicest large spring lamb for you. We have heard rave reviews from our local repeat customers so I would say the quality of our lamb is very good. Most of the ones we sell to our farm buyers weigh about 100 lbs. each but weights may vary and we have no way to weigh them on pickup day so they are sold "by the hoof".
If you are purchasing a butchering lamb, you should be prepared to butcher the lamb yourself on the farm here on pickup day or haul it to a packing house for them to butcher and package. Bring your own packaging and butchering materials if you wish to butcher the lamb here. We recommend you bring a couple coolers with ice and some trash bags. We have tables and a skinning pole and clean running water available and we can dispose of waste if desired for an additional $10 but we will waive that fee if you do a good job skinning the pelt and let us have that back.
Intact males: We can sell you intact males for butchering or breeding but you would have to take the lamb at a young age and we would have to pick out the lamb for you. The reason why we'd have to pick one out is that we could stand a chance of ruining the mother if you picked out a single lamb or even a twin so we would try to pick out a triplet. We would require payment IN FULL for intact males before we castrate the entire male lamb crop. You would need to contact us in April and pay us the full amount after we confirm that we do have a lamb for you. If you wanted the ram for breeding we would then dock the lamb instead of castrating it. Butchering rams would not be docked or castrated. Once his docking wound is fully healed you would be expected to come get the lamb when we arrange to get the sheep up.
BREEDING STOCK:
Ewe lambs: Ewe lambs picked up on lamb
pickup day will be unbred.
If you want them bred to our ram, pickup day will be arranged at a later
date and the breeding fee will be $10.00 each. Keeping them past the
date we send lambs to market will require a $50 deposit per lamb.
You should be prepared to pay the deposit at least one week before we are
scheduled to take lambs to market (see general information above).
If you want to pick up your lamb on regular lamb pickup day then you will
need to pay the regular $25 deposit (see general information above).
Ram lambs: Please see "Intact males" above (in the butchering lamb section) for information about ram lambs for breeding.
SHOW LAMBS: We usually leave our wether lambs undocked so if you want a show lamb you need to tell us no later than March or April so we can leave a nice wether undocked. You will need to pay a $50 deposit up front when you decide you want a show lamb. If you don't contact us early enough we can still sell you a ewe lamb for showing. Children in 4-H or FFA who provide me with a letter from their leader stating they are a member in good standing will receive a $50 discount. Please understand that these lambs are not handled much and are raised on their mothers so they are not tame lambs when you get them however they are not wild crazy acting sheep and should be easy to train once on grain and penned up.
