Stone Axe Farm
Our Flock
The ram is half the flock...
RF 4291 “JACK”
The photo above was taken July 12, 2009. Now here’s the meat and shedding qualities we strive to produce.
Jack is related to a number of our best ewes, and we are excited about the opportunity to do to some line breeding, using proven genetics.
When Theuns Botha, the licensed Dorper inspector from South Africa, visited our farm, he said he had not seen a ram during his visit to Texas that was “Jack’s” equal in meat, length, and depth.
SAF 0201 “Lothario”
This is our home bred QR ram, photographed here at 24 months. He’s sired by an Australian import “Robusto” and out of one of our Type 5 ewes. We’re really liking his lambs. He’s got width, depth, and length. As a bonus, he’s gentle and easy for Martha to handle. We’ve bred him to some of our best ewes for September 2009 lambs.
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If the ram is half the flock, the ewe is half the lamb.
Our ewe flock is made up of both purebred and fullblood ewes we’ve purchased from proven bloodlines, as well as ewes we’ve bred up from our original seed stock. The black ewe on the home page is our oldest ewe, “Bessie”, a 3/4 Dorper 1/4 Barbado ewe that has been a great foundation ewe. We have 5 generations of ewes we’ve bred from her. Her lambs are meaty, hardy, good shedders, and great mothers.
We select our ewes for conformation, good shedding, mothering, and calm temperament. Color is the last criteria, in fact we like attractive patterns on the percentage ewes. They add interest to the flock!
These are three of our foundation ewes, all inspected by Raymond Read, of South Africa. The two on the left were type 5s, the one on the right a type 4. Their daughters and granddaughters were inspected this fall. Of the twenty-two ewes inspected, seven were type 5, ten were type 4. One of the type 5 ewes is a home bred ewe upgraded from one our our foundation 3/4 Dorper 1/4 Barbados ewes.
Pictured below are a few of our top ewes, and their April 2009 lambs to the left of each of them. The lambs were photographed at 6-8 weeks and are all sired by “Jack”.
