2010-11 Donor Information
The set of ewes we have put together for this year’s program represents a sampling of the stud ewes we’ve been able to breed over 20 years of genetic and pheonotypic selection of Hampshire wether type sheep. As a friend in the industry put it to me several years ago, “You were breeding competitive Hampshires before Hampshires were the hot thing to breed.”
   
Impact 706y. Sire - Armani (118 x Stroker grandaughter)
Dam - Impact 509. (Houston x Impact 388, 21 daughter)
For those who study pedigrees and history, 706y is stacked with some of the best old Hampshire wether genetics in the industry. She has Stroker up and down her pedigree; Armani is a Stroker Grandson on a Stroker Grandaughter. 21 was sired by Stopwatch which was Strokers’ twin brother. 706 has a reputation in our flock for stamping sheep with design and serious muscle shape. Flushed to Money Maker for 2011.
  
Impact 803y Sire – Macho Man (Showtime x Heat is On) Linbred Packen Heat.
Dam- Impact 706y
803y is a daughter of the prolific 706 ewe. This is one of those ewes, if walking in a crowd, who is easy to spot. She is prefectly constructed from all angles. She’s lambed twice - twins both times in total - 3 ewe lambs and one wether. All of the ewe lambs have been retained and the wether was most recently selected as Champion Crossbred and Grand Overall at the 2010 WI State Fair. He was one of the most popular lambs as a baby. He was shown a total of 3 times this year and was selected as Grand Overall at all three shows. Impact 803 is mated the same way for 2011. Flushed to the Wise buck.
  
Impact 620y, Sire – Showbox (Packen Heat x Impact 314)
Dam – Impact 113y (21 x Impact 342y)
620 is one of those easy keeping constant producers that’s production oriented in her makeup but kicks out winners and bucks year after year. Her dam, Impact 113, is a full sister to the Grand Overall at Louisville in 2004 shown by Kaylee Turner. 620 has had 3 sets of twins; we’ve kept every ewe and have shown them all. One of those, named Lacy (Impact 842), was shown 10 times in Iowa and WI in 2008. She was undefeated as a wether dam. Her most recent buck, Impact 1011, was sold to the prominent finewool breeder Richard Smith, TX. We feel that we could never have too many daughters out of her. Flushed to Money Maker for 2011.
   
Impact 670y, Sire – The Heat is On (Packen Heat x Impact 296)
Dam – Impact 473 (Packen Heat x Son of a Gun)
Here is one of the popular wether making ewes in the flock. The only problem is that we’ve been greedy and kept them all which makes her a perfect candidate for the donor program, so we can hopefully create more to get into others’ hands. She’s lambed 3 times, 1 single and 2 sets of twins, 3 wethers and 2 ewe lambs - produced Grand Overall at WI State Fair in 2008, Grand Hamp at The Clash (IA) in 2008, Grand Hamp and Grand Overall at The Clash in 2009 in both shows 1 & 2, and Reserve Crossbred at the 2009 WI State Feair. If you’re ever visting, make sure to ask us to point out this ewe. She is a big, stout, high-headed, great spined, huge hipped, great structure, and huge foot - just one of those fault free ones. Flushed to Young Jock for 2011
  
Impact 594, Sire – “ODF” – (Packen Heat x Impact 74)
Dam – Harrison 313 (Buckmaster son x Harrison)
This is Tierney’s choice of ewes from her flock to flush, and she picked a very good one; the ewe is young and has lambed only twice. In 2009 she prodcued a very popular lamb that Chad Charmasson purchased and sold to Brad Dale for his nephew Brendon Kuessel. The lamb was campaigned successfully in IA last year, and she again produced one they fed in 2010. This is another one of those ewes we feel confident in her ability to generate high quality ones year after year. She’s a perfectly constructed ewe that’s a tremendous wether maker. Flushed to Young Jock for 2011.
 
White 90, Sire – Livewire
Dam – Stitzline
Sometimes it pays to be good and once in a while a program just gets lucky. In 2009, we purchased Dan White’s (OH) entire flock of ewes. We knew he had been putting together some interesting genetics and kicking out some very good sheep. This set of ewes has not only met our expectations, but has blown them clean out of the park, and as mentioned, we just got lucky when Dan decided to sell us this set. As we’ve studied these ewes, 90 kept popping up as the mother to numerous ewes in the set. Our son Calvin pegged this ewe as one of the good ones when she walked off the trailer. Several of 90’s daughters produced some of the best selling sheep this past spring. She, herself, had a set of twins (ewe and a wether) – we kept the wether to show and ewe lamb is out in the keeper pen. These are the right kind for today and well into the future, and we are hoping to get lucky one more time and multiply more of her daughters. Flushed to Money Maker for 2011. |
