2019 All Canada Classic Sheep Show and Sale

We attended the Classic in Humboldt, SK on July 19-21 with our Dorsets.
We were very pleased to have 1st place Junior Ewe Lamb, 2nd place Junior Ram Lamb, 3rd place Yearling Ewe and 6th place Yearling Ram.
The sale was well attended and prices were really strong, with a lot of animals going for over $1000.  The sheep industry in Canada is doing very well!

Our son, Carson and grandkids, Tyrell 9, Taylen 7 and Hunter 6 came with me and they were all a great help.  The kids took part in the Junior Show for the first time and had lots of fun.  They worked hard to halter train their ewe lambs for the show.

May Happenings

We had a very busy and productive day on Saturday.
We weaned, weighed, vaccinated, dewormed and Vetoliced the 200+ March born lambs. Then sorted them into ram lamb and ewe lamb pens.
We also mouthed, bagged and Vetoliced the ewes and dewormed them as needed.

Tonight, I finally got our entries done for the All Canada Classic Show & Sale in Humboldt in July. I am bad for leaving things like that to the last minute because I have hard time deciding what to take.
Here is the ad I made for the catalogue. The rams in the photo are some of our stud rams.

Yearling Dorset Ewes

We had our flock shorn on Saturday and now we can see what was under all that wool!
We are happy with how our April 2018 born yearling ewes are turning out.  Most of them are bred to start lambing April 14 to May 9.
They  are sired by 3 different rams:  McDermit 1110Y, McDermit 39Z and Briar Glen 100B.

We are planning to consign a couple of these ewes to the All Canada Classic Show & Sale in Humboldt, SK on July 18-21, along with some ewe lambs and ram lambs.

New Stud Ram

It’s about time we introduced our new stud ram:
BRIAR GLEN 100B, the high selling, $3800 ram of the 2016 All Canada Classic Sale in Richmond, Quebec.  He was bred by Briar Glen Farms, Alan and Marilyn McCorkindale from Sooke, BC.
We really like this ram’s thickness, length, depth and correctness.
We turned him out with our purebred ewes today, so will be looking forward to his lambs in January.
To view his pedigree on the CLRC website click here.

New Sheep From The Classic

We missed taking sheep to the Classic in Winnipeg due to getting the flu, but we were able to make a quick trip out for the sale on Saturday. It was a barnfull of excellent quality sheep!
We are pleased to announce these additions to our flock:
2 year old (pre-purchased) Dorset ram, Brien G&L 55A
Yearling Texel ram, Lot #302 Orchardview 60B (to put on the Scotch Mules),
and 4 nice Dorset ewe lambs ~
Lot #56, Reserve Champion Dorset Ewe and
Lot #72, 1st place Junior ewe lamb both from Shereff Stock Farm,
Lot #63 from Furze Farms and
Lot #65 from Heeroma Farm.

We are looking forward to seeing what these new sheep will add to our program.

Brien G&L 55A (Dorset) and Orchardview 60B (Texel)

Left to right: Reserve Champion Dorset ewe, Shereff 115B (fall born),
Furze 9C, Shereff 9C and Heeroma 38C (all January born).

Brien G&L 55A

Brien G&L 55A

January Born Dorset Lambs

Here are a few of our January born purebred Dorset lambs. We weaned, weighed and 8-wayed them this weekend. Some of them could hardly get into the creep area anymore.
We will be consigning some lambs to the All Canada Sheep Classic Show & Sale in Winnipeg this June, as well as to the SSBA Annual  Summer Show & Sale in Prince  Albert, SK in July.
Check back to our website for more pictures and information on the lambs, as it becomes available.
Click on the photos to enlarge them.

SSBA Show & Sale at Prince Albert

The SSBA has announced that their Annual Summer Show & Sale will be held in conjunction with the Prince Albert, SK Exhibition.  The sheep show dates are July 30 – August 1, 2015.  P.A. is only a 1 1/2 hour drive from Saskatoon.

We will be going with some of our Dorsets.  It is a possibility that we will take some Scottish Blackface and Scotch Mules as well.

Hope to see you there!

Agribition Week

We will be at the Canadian Western Agribition later this week in Regina, from Thursday to Saturday, November 14-16.  We are taking 4 Dorset rams and 4 Dorset ewes to show, as well as a pen of 2 commercial Dorset x Cheviot ewe lambs for the sale.  Come visit us there!  This is the first time we have ever taken sheep to Agribition so we are looking forward to it.