Update as of October 2024:

We have September-born lambs available: See Fall 2024 Ram Lambs for sale

* RAM LAMBS $900 ea
* Ewe lambs $400 ea. (minimum group of 5, or 4 with a ram lamb) — sorry, our ewe lambs are sold as of 10/20/24
* Bred excess ewes. About 20 excess ewes will be available in Winter 2024-25. Excess ewes will range from $300 - $900 ea, depending on their age udder conformation; we will have details of the ewes by December 1, 2024. All will run in December 2024 with one of Meadowood’s herd sires, and will be available for transport after pregnancy-testing in February. Excess ewes are sold in a minimum group of 5.
A 25% deposit is required to hold your interest in any breeding stock.

Information on how we offer our breeding stock for sale

First we (Bee and Quincy) complete analyses of the flock’s milk production records, EBVs, and udder conformation pictures, for selection of the ewes from which we will keep our own replacement females and males, and from which we will offer this year’s replacement females and males for sale.

We are able to supply individual dam EBVs for milk yield and component yield (protein & fat%)! All thanks to the DSANA Genetic Evaluation Program!!)

All details on each animal for sale — lineage, EBVs and milk production data for dams and grand-dams, dams’ udder pictures, pictures of the ram lambs’ mouths, testicles, and bodies — are available on the file “Fall 2024 Ram Lambs for sale”. Past files of information can be found in the Dairy Sheep menu (for instance, “2021 Ram Lambs for sale”). If you are interested in any of these ram lambs, contact Quincy by email at info@meadowoodfarms.com, or send a deposit to Meadowood Farms, 5157 Ridge Road, Cazenovia NY 13035, to reserve your place to choose a ram lamb, ewe lambs, or excess ewes.

Our program for selling ram lambs:

  • We select ewes that we would potentially keep replacements from; this selection is based on EBVs, milk yield, and udder conformation.

  • We grow out these select ram lamb and assess them for conformation and structural correctness (mouth, feet, testicles, pizzle).  If they do not pass this assessment, they will not be sold as breeding rams.

  • We put together a paper listing the ram lambs available, their details and pictures, and giving the dams' EBVs, and production information and lineage, as well as udder pictures. We generally expect that the rams will go to buyers starting at around three-to-four months of age.

  • We require a non-refundable 25% deposit on all breeding stock.  The order in which we receive deposits is the order of choice of ram lambs. If we cannot supply a ram lamb to you (i.e., if because of death or poor assessment, we do not have enough rams to meet the received orders), we will refund your deposit.

On buying animals from a flock that records individual ewes’ milk production, and generates information on their genetic potential (EBVs):

Under the “Dairy Sheep” menu we have attached the breeding stock information which we have supplied to buyers over the last eight years. We include them as a record of the type of information that we think anyone wanting to buy dairy animals should have and should want to have. If you are hoping to make a living from milking sheep, or hope to achieve a profit from milking dairy sheep, we strongly advise you to purchase breeding stock (rams, ram lambs, ewes, ewe lambs) from producers who record their individual ewes’ milk production at the very least, and preferably from those who now are enrolled in DSANA’s Genetic Evaluation Program and can supply EBVs on the seedstock they offer. Many DSANA member producers do milk record their ewes and also test for components, and a growing number are also part of the GEP. For a list of DSANA members offering breeding stock for sale, go to DSANA’s Member Directory and search by the category of breeding stock you are looking for. If you would like to see how we have used EBVs to make our breeding selections, go to the file under our Dairy Sheep menu titled “How we used EBVs in August 2019”.

For questions on our breeding stock availability, please contact Quincy by emailing info@meadowoodfarms.com.