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Quarterly Newsletter of Katahdin Hair Sheep International

The Katahdin Hairald

Summer 2012Volume 24, No. 2 www.katahdins.org

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New Youth MembersSarah Bruno of Holy Mountain Farm................ Redbush, KYEllie Baubonis of Guini Ridge Farm...................... Union, MEKyle Baubonis of Guini Ridge Farm ..................... Union, MEJosey Bush of Bub Ranch ..........................Kosh Konog, MOGwendalyn Skye Sprouse of Skye Brooke......... Licking, MOLydia & Chloe Aaron of Aaron Family Ranch ...........................................................................................Vanderwagen, NMJustin, Jared & James Morgan of Choctaw Valley Ranch ............................................................................ Hartshorne, OKMacey Cox of ANS Farms ............................... Smithville, TNXiaodi Whitfield of Isley Creek Farm .............. Blountville, TN

New Voting MembersJohn & Sheila Green of 4G Katahdins................. Section, ALGene Awtrey ....................................................Huntsville, ARGreg Price of Caoirigh Farm, LLC................ Fayetteville, ARCarolyn Dierksen of Out of the Whey Farm....Newcastle, CADennis A Wilson of McLeewee Farm..Rough and Ready, CAPeter Findlay of Hamlet Hill Farm.....................Salisbury, CTJeffrey Odom of MOJOS Katahdins ............... Macclenny, FLChuck Smith ......................................................Jennings, FLLane or Dale Bennett of Oak Hill Katahdins ......Calhoun, GAKevin & Christina Brooks of Rock Bottom Ranch................................................................................................Blakely, GADale Carter of Dale Carter Farms.........................Baxley, GAChristie Hartner of Double S Ranch ............ Dawsonville, GADavid, Dannette & Sara Hutto of Happy Feet Farms ............................................................................................. Wray, GABob & Sherry Lott of Sodak Farm..................... Palmetto, GAVirginia Hirsch of Alpha Omega Katahdins.......Rathdrum, IDDavid & Janalee Boelkens of Boelkens Farm ....... Lanark, ILDon & Florie Scott ...............................................Vandalia, ILKendall & Andrea Loewen of Morning Glory Acres....................................................................................... Hardinsburg, INHarold Burke of H & L Katahdins.................South Shore, KYFelipe O Quesada of Felipe Quesada Farm..........Rayne, LABud & Julie Ellenberg ........................................ Perham, MNJay D Ferguson of J&C Farm..........................Perinston, MSDon Bush, Jr of Bub Ranch........................Kosh Konog, MODale Paulus of Dale's Katahdins .........................Gerald, MO

Amy Schroeder of Missouri Meadows.........Hughesville, MOKathryn & David Harju of Smokey Knoll Farm................................................................................................. Chatham, NHGilbert & Nancy Chichester of Nagimor Farm .............................................................................................. Warnerville, NYKeenan D Fletcher of Fletchers Fowl House...... Deposit, NYLinda & Shaun Gilliland of Ben Wever Farm ....Willsboro, NYDrew, Suellen, & Meaghan Griffin of Griffin's Nest Farm ...........................................................................Tioga Center, NYBarbara W Hollands of Flowerhilles .......... East Bethany, NYCynthia A Shelley of Crem Ledge/Patina.........Cobleskill, NYMarty & Patty Gambill of Chestnut Hill Katahdins ........................................................................................... Crumpler, NCBarbara Randall............................................... Cameron, NCSill & Wayne Wilson of S & W Farm................... Canton, NCBrad, Tracy, Ben & Kristi Williams of Birch Creek Farms ......................................................................................Atoka, OKYvonne Burson of KY Wagyu & Katahdin............ Boring, ORElizabeth Griffin of Sundance Hills Farm..............Salem, ORJim & Mary Lois Kuhns of Wallace Slough Farm .......................................................................................... Clatskanie, ORJamie & Cheryl Porter of Porter Acres...........Springfield, OREugene & Angela Wallace of Wallace Family Farm ............................................................................................Aurora, ORKathleen A Langen of Black Creek Farm........... Dushore, PALisa Ralph of Hawk View Katahdins........................Plum, PAJanet Meyer.................................... Wessington Springs, SDAndrew & Suzanne Cox of ANS Farms........... Smithville, TNMark Thomas Gurley of Circle G Farms.......... Kingsport, TNFran Lombardo of Sunlight Acres ...................... Spencer, TNLaura Whitfield of Isley Creek Farm ............... Blountville, TNManuel & Karin Aguilar ..................................... Brenham, TXM & D Nilsson of Fruitful Acres.................... Farmersville, TXThomas & Cynthia Cox of Cill Dara Farm .......Delaplane, VAKristina Hass of Hassland Farms ............ North Tazewell, VAJoe Hattrup of Hattrup Farms Inc .......................Wapato, WAEric Napier of Rocky Hollow Farm...................... Wayne, WVHolly or Dale Hilke ..................................................Berlin, WITerry Groth of Farm 45 LLC................................Jackson, WIDave & Deb Lasley of Cedar Run Ranch............ Oconto, WICari Slater of Slater Sheep Station..................Evansville, WI

Welcome New MembersFebruary 15 — April 21, 2012

Inside This Issue

Summer 2012VOLUME 24 ISSUE 2

Jim Morgan & Teresa Maurer, [email protected]

Gail Hardy, Graphic [email protected]

KHSI OperationsJim Morgan and Teresa Maurer

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KHSI RegistryKarey Claghorn, KHSI Registrar

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KHSI Board of DirectorsPresident - Wes LimesandVice President - Carl GinappSecretary - Roxanne NewonTreasurer - Lee WrightDirector - Maria DoschDirector - G.F. "Doc" KennedyDirector - Henry Shultz

Advertising

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Classifieds - Classified sale ads for Katahdin or Katahdin-cross sheep are free to all KHSI members in the Katahdin Hairald and at the KHSI website. For the Hairald, limit length to 40 words.

Ad commitment for Fall 2012 Hairald due June 22, 2012.

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Ad design available from:Gail Hardy, Xpressions, Graphics Specialists

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Regular FeaturesWelcome New Members ..................................................................... inside front coverDirectors Corner ............................................................................................................2The Resource Shelf Part 1: National Agriculture Information Service Toll-free Phones

Active Again.................................................................................................................9The Resource Shelf Part 2: Create Your Own Online Customized Biosecurity Plan ..12KHSI Member’s Guide.................................................................................................23Focus on EWE-TH.......................................................................................................27Classified Ads..............................................................................................................30Advertisers Index (listed alphabetically) ......................................................................32

Cover: "Changing Grass into Meat and Milk", 2nd Place, tie, Best Promotion Category, 2011 KHSI Photo Contest. Photograph by Karen Kenagy, Canby, ORPictured Above: "Katahdins a Great Choice for Management Intensive Grazing (MIG)", 1st Place, Action Category, 2011 KHSI Photo Contest. Photograph by Karen Kenagy, Canby, OR

ArticlesFrom The Feed Trough . . . All Those Tiny Bubbles......................................................3Pacific Coast Katahdin Hair Sheep Association Hosts Lamb Day ...............................7Making Progress with Important Lowly Heritable Traits ..............................................13Katahdins Move Up in Registrations and Transfers ....................................................19Opportunities to Learn More About Sheep Production & Sheep Breeding in 2012 ....27

Coming EventsPasture Walks Included at August 9 Farm Tour, KHSI Expo.........................................2Hairald Calendar............................................................................................................4Katahdin Sale Round Up ...............................................................................................8Join Us in August for the KHSI Expo in Ohio! .............................................................102012 KHSI Expo Hotels: Special Rates Until July 9 ...................................................10Pasture Ram Test On Schedule ..................................................................................18Midwest Katahdin Association Private Treaty Sale and Meeting ................................19National Workshop Features Cutting Edge Work on Improving Sheep Production ...20New “Ewesfull” Gizmo Contest at 2012 Expo..............................................................28KHSI 2012 Expo & Sale Schedule ...................................................... inside back cover

KHSI Business & Information2012 KHSI Annual Photo Contest Open! ......................................................................9“Where is My Member Number?”................................................................................202012 Katahdin Hairald Publications & Ad Deadlines ...................................................22KHSI Board of Director Meeting Minutes, December 1, 2011 .....................................24Donations Welcome for Katahdin Youth Scholarships and Youth Show Premiums....262012 KHSI Expo Sale Requirements For Commercial Ewes - Registered Rams & ......

Ewes.........................................................................................................................29Etiquette When Selling Breeding Stock.......................................................................29

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By Wes Limesand, KHSI President, North Dakota

By now everyone should have a pasture or barn full of lambs. Hope-fully they are the best ever. What a great year 2011 turned out to be for KHSI. The 2011 comparative data for US sheep breeds was recently pub-lished. We registered the 3rd highest number of sheep of any breed in the US and Katahdins were number 1 in transfers. I want to thank the member-ship for their support and the contin-ued growth of our breed.

The youth committee has been working to make more opportunities available for our youth. Two events coming up in June are the youth show in Chillicothe Missouri and the 2nd annual Leroy Boyd Memorial Junior

Show in Sedalia Missouri. I encourage you to support these events if you get the chance. Also, don’t forget about the new KHSI youth scholarship pro-gram—the June deadline will be here before you know it—please encour-age young people you know to apply for it!

Also mark your calendars for the upcoming sales this summer . Two that come to mind are the Midwest Stud Ram Sale in Sedalia Missouri on June 27th and the KHSI Expo sale on August 11th in Wooster, Ohio. Both will be opportunities to buy high quality animals for your breeding program.

The KHSI Board and the KHSI Expo hosts hope you are planning to attend the 2012 Expo. The Expo com-mittee has put together a great pro-gram and tours, so be sure to review the Expo information in this issue. Hope everyone has a great summer, and we’ll look forward to seeing many of you in August in Wooster!

Reserve your Hotel Room for the 2012 Expo (see

article on page 10)

On Thursday August 9, partici-pants in the KHSI Expo will have the chance to sign up for a special treat! Three local sheep farms near Wooster, Ohio, have agreed to host tours, and several local experts will also join us to discuss special topics. Ohio produc-ers have been telling KHSI Operations how fortunate Ohio is to have educa-tors such as Jeff McCutcheon, Bob Hendershot and Dr Bill Shulaw. This is our chance to listen and learn. The farms represent different forage-based systems, and each uses different prac-tices to manage parasites. Discussions in the fields will include ruminant nutrition, and the management of grazing, soils, fertility and parasites on pastures.

This bus tour is likely to sell out quickly, so save the date on your calendar now, and respond quickly when you receive registration materi-als this summer. Reservations will be required, and space will be limited.

Tom & Maria DoschPO Box 517 • Frederick, SD 57441 605 329-2478 • 605 329-7928 Cell

www.doschkatahdins.com

See photos of our rams on our website and Dosch Katahdins on Facebook

We will have a very nice consignment of ram lambs

and ewe lambs with excellent conformation,

good hair coats, and strong growth EBV's at the Midwest Stud Ram Show & Sale in June as well as the KHSI Expo in

Ohio in August.

Pasture Walks Included at August 9 Farm Tour,

KHSI Expo

Pasture Walks Included at August 9 Farm Tour,

KHSI Expo

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From The Feed Trough . . . All Those Tiny BubblesBy Woody Lane, PhD

Everyone knows someone who’s lost animals to bloat. Because of the risk, some folks flatly refuse to graze their stock on dense stands of clover or alfalfa. Others just kind of shrug and say that they’ve rarely lost animals, and that they don’t worry about it much. So . . . what gives?

Legume Bloat. Sometimes called Frothy Bloat. What is it, exactly? Well, let’s consider what happens in a ru-men.

We can think of the rumen as a large pouch containing mostly liquid with a small cap of gas near the top. The liquid supports a vast population of rumen microbes, who make their living by metabolizing the carbohy-drates, proteins, and fiber that are dumped into the rumen when the animal eats something. Because the rumen contains little or no oxygen, the microbial process for digesting these substrates is called fermentation. Two of the main products of rumen fermentation are carbon dioxide and methane, which are gases. (Think of a septic tank.) Hour after hour, microbes ferment feed particles deep in the ru-men liquid and release these gases into the surrounding liquid as tiny bubbles, which then rise to the surface. A thin film of molecules at the surface defines the boundary between the ru-men liquid and the gas above it.

Now the key part: Under normal conditions, these gas bubbles float upwards through the rumen liquid, and when they reach the surface, they merge briefly with the bound-ary layer, pop open, and vent their gas into the gas cap. Periodically, the animal eructates (the scientific jargon for belching) and releases some of this gas into the atmosphere. You know, the greenhouse effect and all that. So far, so good.

But in a bloat condition, some-thing else occurs. The boundary layer assumes a different character — its surface tension increases. This has profound effects on the rumen environment, because now, when those tiny fermentation bubbles float to the surface, they can’t pop through the boundary layer to release their gas. Instead, they remain intact and accu-mulate as a stable foam just beneath the surface.

But as this foam begins to form, the rumen bugs — remember them? — are still merrily creating more gas bubbles beneath the surface. Unfortunately, there is no direct feedback mechanism to tell the rumen bugs to stop their fer-mentation. As more bubbles float to the surface, they just add to the other bubbles and accumulate, like a beer foam growing larger and larger. This foam soon builds an immense pres-sure. The rumen expands and actually causes the side of the cow or sheep to bulge outwards. (Which side? The left side. Just stand behind the animal and look forward. The side that’s opposite the right side is the left side).

Now the animal becomes uncom-fortable and stops eating. But this changes nothing. The rumen bugs con-tinue their fermentations unchecked, at least in the short term, because the rumen already contains lots of feed. Eventually — in a few hours — the bulging rumen becomes large enough to interfere with the movement of the diaphragm, causing respiratory dis-tress. And then death, either from asphyxiation or a stress-induced problem like a heart attack.

Why does bloat occur? Surpris-ingly, after years of research, we’re definitely not sure of the exact mech-anisms. But we do know that certain conditions encourage the formation of that stable foam.

First, something must be present that increases surface tension by bind-ing surface molecules together. This something is probably a protein or a group of related proteins, which oc-curs most frequently in certain legume forages. Secondly, rumen gas produc-tion must be vigorous, which means that the microbial fermentation must be healthy and active. Thirdly, foam stability is enhanced when the rumen pH is lower than 6.0, which implies the presence of lots of soluble and quickly-fermentable carbohydrates. Fourthly, enough cations must be present (calcium, magnesium, and po-tassium) to help stabilize that surface film. Finally, the natural anti-foaming agents like salivary mucous or certain lipids (fats) seem to be inactivated or at low levels.

When thinking about bloat, every-one concentrates on the forages, so let’s focus on forages for a moment,

especially the legumes. Some legumes will cause bloat, but not all. Alfalfa can cause bloat, of course, and so can many true clovers (the Trifolium spe-cies, such as white, red, subterranean, kura, alsike, crimson, etc), and also the sweetclovers (Melilotus species) and hairy vetch (Vicia villosa). Legumes that don’t (or rarely) cause bloat in-clude the trefoils (Lotus species, such as birdsfoot trefoil and big trefoil), crownvetch (Coronilla varia), cicer milkvetch (Astragalus cicer), sanfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia), lespedeza (Les-pedeza stipulacea), and most tropical legumes. But legumes aren’t the only culprits. Young, succulent grasses can also sometimes cause bloat, especially the annual small grains like wheat, barley, and oats. Annual grasses gen-erally contain higher levels of non-structural (non-fiber) carbohydrates than perennials.

One common theme in bloat is that these species contain proteins which, under certain conditions, will bind surface molecules more tightly together and thus prevent gas bubbles from breaking through. Perhaps these proteins form some kind of slime on the surface of the rumen fluid, but we don’t know for sure.

Interestingly, the legume species that don’t cause bloat also contain these problematic proteins, but they also contain something else — el-evated levels of tannins, which are complex molecules that bind to these proteins, denature them, and reduce their solubility in the rumen fluid. This effectively prevents these proteins from altering surface tension.

Another common theme in bloat is the higher risk when forages contain low levels of fiber and high levels of soluble carbohydrates and proteins. Which occurs when the forages are young and growing, when they are so palatable that animals will con-sume large amounts in a short period of time.

So far, here’s the scenario: A healthy, hungry sheep or cow graz-ing a lush legume (or small-grain) pasture, also consuming a good level of minerals. The forages are young, succulent, palatable, and low in fiber. The high intake of quickly-ferment-

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Hairald CalendarKHSI periodically posts information on sheep sales and sheep events as a public service. Posting sale and

event information does not imply endorsement or verification of the claims of any sale or event. Sales and events posted are not sanctioned by KHSI unless otherwise noted. Contact the KHSI Operations Office to ask for your event or sale to be posted. 479-444-8441 or [email protected]

June 8-9, 2012. South Central Katahdin Association (SCKA) 13th Annual Gathering & Field Day & 6th Annual Private Treaty Sale. Rose Hill Farms, Folsom, LA. Contact Susan Bertrand Brien at 985-789-1848

June 16, 2012. 3rd Annual Midwest Junior Preview Show. At the Litton Agri-Science Learning Center in Chillicothe, MO midwestjuniorpreviewshow.com

June 25-27, 2012. Midwest Stud Ram Show & Sale. Missouri State Fairgrounds, Sedalia, MO.June 26, 2012. Midwest Katahdin Hair Sheep Association Annual Meeting. Sedalia, MO. Golden

Corral for dinner and meeting at 7 PM. Steve Bull, 641-420-7535 or [email protected] June 27, 2012. Dr Leroy Boyd Memorial Youth Show. At the Midwest Stud Ram Show & Sale.

Missouri State Fairgrounds. Sedalia, MO.July 19-22 2012. NE Youth Sheep Show. Mallary Complex, Eastern States Exposition, West Spring-

field, MA. Events include: Fitting and Showmanship, Breed Shows, Market Lamb Show, Quiz Bowl, Skillathon, & Fleece Show. ww.nesheep.org/youthshow.html

**July 27-28, 2012. NCERA 214 Research Committee Hosts Two Day Educational Seminar. Clay County Fairgrounds Educational Center, Spencer, IA.

**August 9-11, 2012. KHSI 8th Annual KHSI Expo & Sale. Wayne County Fairgrounds and OARDC in Wooster, Ohio. Tour on Thursday, Educational Events on Friday. Annual KHSI Membership Meeting on Friday evening, August 10th. See articles throughout this issue and inside back cover for details and schedule.

**August 31-September 1, 2012. Midwest Katahdin Hair Sheep Association Private Treaty Sale & Education Weekend. Dekalb County fairgrounds in Maysville, MO, Contact Jake Carlson, 660-541-2986, [email protected]

September 2012 (day TBA). SW AREC Virginia Tech Pasture Test Ram Test Field Day. Date and time to be announced. Wrap-up of the 70 day ram performance test. Glade Spring, VA. More information to be posted at KHSI Website, http://www.apsc.vt.edu/extension/sheep/ Lee Wright at 276-944-2200 or [email protected], & Dr. Scott Greiner at 540-231-9159 or [email protected].

NOTE: Sales are listed in the Sale Roundup Feature elsewhere in this issue.**- Indicates there is an article with more information in this issue of the Hairald.

able carbohydrates quickly reduces the rumen pH below 6 and supports an active microbial fermentation with vigorous gas production. These for-ages contain certain soluble proteins which can drastically increase the sur-face tension of the rumen fluid. But some of these forages also contain

enough tannins to reduce the effects of these proteins.

That’s the underlying background for bloat. So what can we do about it? We still need to talk about the high-risk situations and how to manage those risks. Next time.

Woody Lane is a nutritionist in Rose-

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burg, Oregon. He operates an independent consulting business “Lane Livestock Ser-vices” and teaches nutrition, sheep, beef cattle, and forage workshops across the United States and Canada. His email address is [email protected]. This article was first published in “The Shepherd” and reprinted here with per-mission. © 2003

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Will have ewes to sell off farm

(mostly percentage for upgrade or commercial use)

POY44Midwest Sale

Champion Ram 2011

Twin brother to POY44 was Champion at Missouri and

Arkansas State Fairs

G.F. & Deb KennedyP.O. Box 188 • Pipestone, MN 56164 • (cell) 507-215-0487 • (home) 507-825-5341

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This year's lamb crop was 280 lambs out of 140 ewes with 100 ewes left. Our sires were:

• ADS 010, Aspen Mountain Katahdins, MT• POY44, Poynter Sheep Farm, IL

• HLB1138, Howard Brown, OK, and• MVF6931, Mountain View Farm, TN

Consigning Strong 20 Head to the Midwest Stud Ram Sale, Sedalia, MO

Consigning 20 Head to North Star sale, last Saturday in October, Pipestone, MN

PIPESTONE KATAHDINS

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Debra Blake, OregonApril 14th dawned a slightly

chilly spring day in northwest Oregon with sun and no rain. Over 30 Katahdin breeders and KHSI members drove in from over 400 miles in three directions from Idaho, Wash-ington on the Canadian bor-der, and Northern California. These producers came for hair coat inspection training and educational presentations.

As always, Karen did a great job of letting members in the northwestern USA know about the day. Jim Morgan, from KHSI Operations Of-fice, did a hair coat inspection training. Over 20 folks took the test and there are several new hair coat inspectors on the west coast.

After the hair coat inspector’s

Paci�c Coast Katahdin Hair Sheep Association HostsLamb Day at Karen Kenagy’s in NW Oregon

training, Jim Morgan gave brief pre-sentations on doing 60 day adjusted weights, using dam production re-

cords and body condition scoring. After a brief lunch, folks continued to ask ques-tions about finishing weights, CD&T vaccination proto-cols, physiological finishing weights, eating Katahdin lamb and mutton, changes to Scrapie Flock Certification Program and it seemed like at least 20 other topics!

Following Jim, Karen Kenagy demonstrated sev-eral very practical skills. New producers observed castration using an elastra-tor, vaccinating lambs with CD&T vaccine and drawing blood samples for codon 171 analyses or OPP testing.

We thank KHSI for their support and for sending Dr Jim Mor-gan to Oregon.

Karen Kenagy helps with Hair Coat Inspection Training at Field Day.

Visit the KHSI website at www.katahdins.org for past issues of the Hairald

Hillcrest Katahdins — David S. Redwine, DVMGate City, VA • 423-384-1982

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Announcing our 2nd Annual Online Katahdin Ram and Ewe Sale June 18th and 19th, 2012

in partnership with Mountain View Farms (Eric and Dwight Dalton). Call or email for more details.

These two lambs sell

online June 19th!

We Build Great Sheep!

Also consigning an elite set to Midwest Stud Ram Sale in Sedalia, MO.

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KHSI periodically posts information on sheep sales and sheep events as a public service. Posting sale and event information does not imply endorsement or verification of the claims of any sale or event. KHSI encourages the use of performance records and production data as the primary means of selecting sheep instead of emphasizing visual appraisal typical of most shows, sales, and auctions. Sales and events posted are not sanctioned by KHSI unless otherwise noted. Contact the KHSI Operations Office to ask for your sale to be posted. 479-444-8441 or [email protected]

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June 8-9, 2012. South Central Katahdin Association (SCKA) 6th Annual Private Treaty Sale. In conjunction with the SCKA Annual Gathering. Rose Hill Farms in Folsom, Louisiana. Contact Susan Bertrand Brien at 985-789-1848.

June 27, 2012. Midwest Stud Ram Sale. Missouri State Fairgrounds, Sedalia, MO.June 30, 2012. Consignment forms for KHSI Expo Sale due to KHSI Operations Office. ([email protected]

or 479-444-8441 for information)July 29, 2012. Center of the Nation NSIP Sale. Spencer, Iowa. www.nsip.org Several KHSI members plan to

take sheep with EBVs. **August 11, 2012. 8th Annual Katahdin Hair Sheep International Expo Sale. Wayne County Fairgrounds,

Wooster, Ohio. Expo Sale to include registered stock as well as pens of commercial Katahdin Ewes. Contact Wes Limesand, Expo Sale Committee Chair, 701-235- 2114 or Jim Morgan at KHSI Operations, 479-444-8441 or [email protected] www.katahdins.org Sale Catalog available July 10 at www.katahdins.org or by contacting Jim Morgan at the above phone number or email.

**August 31-September 1, 2012. Midwest Katahdin Hair Sheep Association Private Treaty Sale & Education Weekend. Dekalb County Fairgrounds in Maysville, MO, Contact Jake Carlson, 660-541-2986, [email protected]

October 12, 2012. 6th Annual Hair Sheep Sale. 1 PM. Washington County Fairgrounds, Salem IN. Consignment forms, catalogs & info at wcsheep.org or Dave Embree, 812-755-4414

Katahdin Sale Round Up

MAXIMIZING total pounds lamb weaned per ewe using

NSIP

• Top of the Breed Balanced EBVs• Scientific data to document performance

(using NSIP)• Selecting for Superior Total Lbs Weaned/

Ewe

Carl GinappCMG Katahdins641-425-0592

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• Check out our entries in the KHSI Expo Catalog• Consigning Rams & Ewes with EBVs for

Excellent Growth, Milk, Number Weaned and Lbs Lamb Weaned/Ewe

Consigning Stock to:Center of the Nation NSIP Sale

Spencer, IA – July 28thKHSI Expo Sale

Wooster, OH – August 11th

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KHSI Promotion CommitteeAttention all photographers:

KHSI announced the opening of the 8th Annual Photo Contest in the Spring issue of the Katahdin magazine. We are continuing our efforts to obtain quality photographs for promoting Katahdin sheep. The contest is open to all who wish to enter. The photogra-pher does not have to be a member of KHSI. The photograph must include Katahdin sheep.

Entries must be received by No-vember 1, 2012 and can be emailed to [email protected] or sent on a CD to KHSI Operations, PO Box 778, Fayetteville AR 72702.

Photographs from previous con-tests have been used in ads in national sheep magazines and other KHSI pro-motional activities. Several have been included in the Katahdin Hairald.

Entries will be judged on composi-tion, exposure, focus, relevance, and creativity (or appeal) with the goal of promoting Katahdin sheep. Prizes can be used to pay for registry services (registering, recording or transferring sheep), annual membership, Breeder Page or promotional items (t-shirts, hats, vests, signs) and shipping. We call them KHSI Dollars.

First Place: $50 of KHSI services or promotional items.

Second Place: $25 of KHSI services or promotional items.

Third Place: $10 of KHSI services or promotional items.

CATEGORIES:1. Best Promotion of Katahdins – Pho-

2012 KHSI Annual Photo Contest Open!tographs that show one or more of the qualities promoted for Katah-din sheep such as: no shearing, efficient grazers, superb mothers, low maintenance, easy lambing, adaptable, etc.

2. Action – Photographs of activities such as moving/trailing sheep, lambing, tagging, exhibiting, graz-ing, feeding, etc. (Note that all pic-tures featuring youth ages 18 and younger should be entered in the “Kids and Sheep” category.)

3. Scenic – Photographs of sheep outdoors. (Photos entered in this category cannot include people.)

4. Kids and Sheep – Photographs containing pictures of youth less than 18 years of age and sheep.

5. Open Category – Photographs that do not fall into the four above-listed categories.

6. Just for Youth – Pictures of Katah-dins taken by individuals under 19. The picture topic can be any category.

OTHER CONTEST RULES: • Photos being submitted have never

been previously published.• All entries become the property of

KHSI to be used or reproduced at the discretion of KHSI. Owners of the photographed sheep may continue to use the photos.

• All entries must be submitted in digital form, at least 300 dpi, ei-ther by email or on a CD. This is a very important rule! Check the set-tings on your camera. Many great photos that are submitted do not

have the resolution to be used on the Hairald covers or in magazine advertisements. Please be SURE the setting is at 300 dpi or higher.

• Camera and copy shops and some discount stores can help you turn your best hardcopy photos into digital format. Call Operations at 479-444-8441 if you need sugges-tions on this.

• Entries must be submitted in the name of the person who took the photograph.

• Entries are limited to two per per-son per category.

• Only photographs that have been taken in the past three years may be entered.

• Provide the following information in an email or in a file on the disk or CD:1. Title of photo2. Category (from the six listed

above) into which it is being entered3. Photographer’s name4. Mailing address 5. Phone number6. E-mail address7. Approximate date photograph

was taken8. Approximate location of where

photograph was taken

Questions? Please call or email KHSI Operations at [email protected] or 479-444-8441 especially if you need ideas on how to get your photos to us. We do want to acknowledge that these guidelines are based on those used for the ASI photo contest.

The ATTRA National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service is a technical assistance project operated by the nonprofit National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) with funding from the US Depart-ment of Agriculture. Many unique and practical publications for sheep producers are available for free or very low cost through this service.

Tollfree ATTRA telephone lines have made it possible for those with limited or no Internet access to request

materials and ask questions. In 2011, the telephone lines were closed down due to a loss in funding.

However we are happy to report that as of April, 2012 the ATTRA toll-free phone line service is back up and running! Call 1-800-346-9140 at no charge to ask about available sheep publications or to ask specific ques-tions about sustainable and organic sheep production and marketing.

ATTRA sheep publications titles you may want to ask about include:

a) Sheep: Sustainable and Organic Production; b) Managing Internal Parasites in Sheep and Goats; c) Predator Control for Sustainable & Or-ganic Livestock Production; d) Small Ruminant Sustainability Checksheet; e) Small Ruminant Resource List.

There are also materials available on pasture management, fencing, mar-keting and other topics which are also relevant to sheep producers. If you have access to the Internet, the ATTRA website is: www.attra.ncat.org

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Kathy Bielek, Wooster, Ohio The Ohio Heartland Sheep Im-

provement Association and local KHSI members are looking forward to hosting you at the 2012 KHSI Expo in Wooster, Ohio August 9-11.

Plans are on track for excellent three days of learning, visiting with Katahdin breeders from around the USA and Canada and viewing Katah-dins from several of the top breeders in the country. Ohio has more sheep than any other state east of the Mis-sissippi River and has invested in extension education. We invite you to learn from them.

On Thursday August 9, Expo par-ticipants will have the opportunity to visit three local sheep farms. At each stop, in addition to seeing the farm, there will be experts in sheep nutri-tion, grazing management and para-sites discussing how each of the farms uses their land resources, pasture and skills to market sheep. (see article on page 2).

Friday’s educational sessions on August 10 will take place at the Shisler

Join Us in August for the KHSI Expo in Ohio!Conference Center which is located at Ohio State University’s Ohio Ag-ricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) in Wooster. Several speakers from Ohio will give presenta-tions on carcass evaluation, ruminant nutrition, parasite resistance, and meat cutting and cooking. We have also invited researchers from Virginia and Arkansas to speak about selecting sheep genetics plus more discussion of parasite management and selection for resistance. The diverse speakers and topics put together by the organizing committee are outstanding and they all will offer valuable information for both new and experienced shepherds. Take a look at the Friday schedule on the inside back cover for a preview of a great educational experience packed into one day.

The KHSI annual membership meeting will follow the educational sessions. A catered dinner will be served on site. To close the evening, everyone is invited to the fairgrounds for an ice cream social and to view the

sale animals. The 2012 KHSI Expo Sale will begin

at 11:30 am on Saturday, August 11 at the Wayne County Fairgrounds, on the edge of downtown. Registered Katahdins and lots of 3-5 commercial ewes will be offered at the sale (see page 29).

We’ve planned this Expo to appeal to shepherds of all experience levels. With the earlier August date, we hope you’ll plan to come and bring the fam-ily. Activities for older children and a nursery for younger children are planned. You can add to the Expo dates and easily make this a vacation for the entire family. If you are fly-ing, the Cleveland airport is about 1 hour from Wooster and is served by most major airlines. Visitors may also choose to fly into Columbus Ohio.

If you would like more informa-tion about the many opportunities to explore the area contact KHSI Opera-tions or check out the brief description of the area on the calendar page of the KHSI Website.

The days are flying by and by the time you read this, the Expo in Wooster Ohio will be only 2 months away! Remember that the KHSI Expo and Sale events are in August this year (August 9-11), and not September. In addition to the KHSI Expo events, Wooster and surrounding Wayne County offer beautiful rural areas to explore and towns with shops featur-ing Amish products. So come early or stay late if you can!

The headquarters for the KSHI Expo will be the downtown Wooster Best Western Hotel. The charming restored downtown area offers attend-ees a wide choice of restaurants and a variety of interesting shops within walking distance of the hotel.

Below is the list of hotels with blocks of rooms—ask for KHSI rooms when you call. (If that doesn’t ring a bell, mention it is a sheep conference). Rates are guaranteed through July 9.

2012 KHSI Expo Hotels: Special Rates Until July 9Please reserve as soon as possible, especially if you plan to go on the farm tour.Wooster Best Western Hotel, 330-

264-7750. Rate: $89.99 plus tax includes free hot breakfast, free in-room wireless internet, modern style fitness center, outdoor pool. Address: 243 E Liberty, Wooster, OH 44691. Located downtown, approx 1.5 miles from OARDC where the Friday program is, and 0.7 miles from fairgrounds where the sheep will be.

Hilton Garden Inn Wooster, 330-202-7701. Rate: $109 plus tax. Option for hot breakfast cooked-to-order for $9.95. Address: 959 Dover Road, Wooster, OH 44691. Lo-cated across from OARDC where Friday program is, and approx 2.5 miles from fairgrounds where sheep will be.

Days Inn Wooster, 330-345-1500. Rate:

$69 double; $75 queen or king plus tax, continental breakfast. Address: 789 East Milltown Road, Wooster, OH 44691. Located about 7 miles from OARDC where Friday pro-gram is, and 3.5 miles from fair-grounds where sheep will be.

Econolodge Wooster, 330-264-8883. Rate: $65 plus tax, continental breakfast. Address: 2137 Lincoln Way, East, Wooster, OH 44691. Location is 3 miles from OARDC where Friday program is, 3 miles from fairgrounds where sheep will be.Other useful addresses to help

your planning: Wayne County Fair-grounds, 199 Vanover St, Wooster OH 44691. www.waynecountyfairohio.com OARDC (Ohio Ag-ricultural Research and Develop-ment Center) 1680 Madison Ave.Wooster, OH 44691 www.oardc.ohio-state.edu

Watch your email and postal mailbox for Expo Registration materials!

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Disease prevention is much easier and less expensive than treating an outbreak and the University of Maine has developed a template designed for sheep and goat producers in any region of the country to create a customized biosecurity plan for their farms.

With funding from Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education, the plan was developed jointly by the University of Maine Extension Educator, Richard Brzozowski, and University of Maryland Extension Sheep and Goat Specialist, Susan Schoenian.

Producers are encouraged to read and respond to a short series of questions or statements from which a cus-tomized document will be created at no charge. Each farm's biosecurity plan will be saved at a secure location and will be available to producers via a specific password the producer creates. Producers also can save and print their own plan and may update, revise or delete their plan at any time. All information will be confidential.

"The hope is that each plan created will benefit producers and their livestock by saving time and reducing losses," Brzozowski says. "By implementing the plan, producers will have a better chance of maintaining a healthy and productive herd or flock. Most contagious diseases of livestock are unknowingly purchased by producers when they introduce new livestock on to their farm or mix their livestock with others. Every livestock producer ought to have a plan to prevent disease."

The link to write an individual biosecurity plan is www.sheepandgoat.com/biosecurity. For more information about writing a plan, contact Richard Brzozowski at [email protected].

Editor’s Notes: Dr Dick Brzozowski of the University of Maine Extension Service and Susan Schoenian of the Univer-sity of Maryland Extension Service have been active members of KHSI for many years. This article was first published in the American Sheep Industry’s ASI Weekly published on 3/2/12.

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Jim Morgan, PhDWhat does lowly heritable

mean? Lowly heritable means that little of the measured dif-ference between two animals is attributed to genetics. Most of the difference is due to management/environment. Table 1 shows examples of heri-tability of several traits. Is a ewe that twins at three years of age compared to a ewe that singled at three years of age genetically more prolific? Possibly.

Before I discuss the lowly heritable traits, I believe the most important things a sheep seedstock producer can do is to set realistic and objective flock genetic goals, limit the number of goals and be consistent in their application from year to year. Too many objectives and changing ob-jectives will result in slow progress.

Introduction. Many of the traits that significantly affect both the man-agement and financial return of a sheep flock are lowly heritable. Some of these lowly heritable traits include lambing difficulties (dystocia), vaginal prolapse, 60 day weights and number born/ewe (prolificacy). Prolificacy and weight gain impact profitability. Occurrence of dystocia and prolapse greatly increase labor and if losses occur, also decrease profit. As seed-stock producers, we would like to improve our flock genetics for these lowly heritable traits, but we do not want to make selection and culling decisions that have little to no effect. Inaccurate culling can remove animals of great value.

Let’s take 60 day weights. Even if they are the same breed, born in the same season, and raised together, only 10% of the difference in 60 day weights between two lambs is attrib-uted to genetics. Consider two lambs born on the same day and at 60 days, one of which is 60 pounds and another which is 50 lbs. If a shepherd selects the heavier lamb, will they be selecting for faster growing genetics? Maybe. Ten percent of 10 pounds is only one pound. One pound difference is not significant. If there are 70 lb and 35 pound lambs, then selecting the 60-70 pound lambs and culling the 35-40 pound lambs are more likely to be improving flock genetics for growth.

Table 1. Heritabilities of Various TraitsTraits Percentage

Number Born 10% Weaned 1260 day wt 10120 day wt 20240 day wt 40Carcass Wt 35

Weight of trimmed retail cuts 45(Taken from Sheep Production Handbook, 2002 Edition, Volume 7; Percent (%) Weaned taken from NSIP Notebook, 2005)

Table 2. Types of TraitType of Trait Variable Examples Numerical Example

Continuous Weight traitsFecal Egg Count

e.g. 60 day wt can vary continuously from 25-70 lbs.

FEC can vary from 0 to >25,000

Step Number Born,Number Weaned

Number born typically varies from 1-4

Step (2 state; present or not present)

Bottle Jaw, ProlapseDystocia

Yes/No or Present/Absent

Making Progress with Important Lowly Heritable Traits

There are seedstock producers that make claims that their flocks are supe-rior for lowly heritable traits. But are they? For example, a seedstock pro-ducer may say they cull all ewes with dystocia and all of their lambs. So, is their flock superior? Are they making progress? Maybe. Since this is lowly heritable, the shepherd is culling 5-10 ewes to eliminate the one ewe that has genetics significantly more likely of passing on dystocia. It is like own-ing 5 dogs and one of them is killing your sheep, so you get rid of all 5 to get the one culprit. This is expensive. For the flock that does not keep good records, it does decrease chances that the flock will require more shepherd intervention and not be easy care.

Better progress occurs when a seed-stock producer can cull the genetically inferior sheep at bottom end of their flock and select the superior animals at the top end.

Selection for genetic improvement, including lowly heritable traits, is most effective when there are larger differences between the top and bot-tom of the flock so that a producer can cull the bottom and select for the top. Traits can be one of three types, con-tinuous, multiple steps and “yes/no” (2 state) traits (Table 2). Let’s look

at an example of each type of trait and what it might mean for selection choices in your flock.

A) 60 Day Weights. Weight gain is an example of a trait that can have large dif-ferences between the top and bottom and allows selecting at the top and culling at the bottom. Directly compare only animals raised under the same conditions. It

is also not accurate to compare lambs between seasons or between flocks. You need to adjust weights for num-ber born, number raised, age of ewe, age of lamb at weighing and sex of lamb. In your own flock, selecting in the top 10-20% and culling the bottom 20% is effective, especially if there is a wide range in weights. If the range is 35-70 pounds at 60 days, the lambs at the top are much more likely to have superior genetics for gain than if the range of 60 day weights is smaller (e.g. 45-55 lbs). Selecting sheep by using expected breed values (EBVs) from the National Sheep Improvement Program greatly increases accuracy of selecting for weight gain.

B) Number Born, Number Weaned. These traits have multiple steps and in most Katahdin flocks range from 1-3 in born or weaned. These traits are typically harder to make progress since the difference between single born and twin born is only one. A small change in nutrition can tip a ewe to singling rather than twinning. Selecting mature ewes that

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repeatedly triple, and culling mature ewes that repeatedly single, will result in faster progress, since the breeder can select at the top and cull at the bottom. But many producers are not interested in triplets. So, selecting triplet bearing ewes is often not an option.

“Repeatability” increases accuracy of selection. For this example, look at Table 3, where comparison of both prolificacy and number weaned are demonstrated. This table is an ex-ample of a “dam production” record. Picking a twin born lamb out of ewes

2 and 3 is much more likely to provide twinning genetics. It is important to also look at the dam production re-cords of the dam of a sire when select-ing or purchasing sires. Ewe # 1 has mostly singling genetics while ewes 2 & 3 have twinning genetics and ewes 4 & 5 have mostly tripleting genetics. Your accuracy of selection increases if evaluation of repeated years is done.

One year’s record is only 10% heri-table, but looking at 3-4 years records, heritability is 30-40%. Repeatability is important.

It should also be pointed out that using repeated occurrence is impor-tant for selecting for number weaned (lamb survival). Similar to number born, number weaned is also 10-12% heritable. By selecting ewes 2, 3 and 5, the shepherd is also select-ing repeatable weaning genetics at approximately 30% heritability. The dam production record is arguably one of the most important selection traits for profit and meat production in the sheep industry. Lambs have to be born and have to live before they can be sold. If the fastest growing lamb was out of ewe #1 or ewe # 4 , profit would be marginal because most of the time, only 1 lamb would be sold. Sires for your ewe flock should come from ewes with good dam production records. As with selecting for weight

gain, using EBVs from the National Sheep Improvement greatly increases accuracy in selecting for number born and number weaned and allows ac-curate selection even before the ewe lambs.

C) Dystocia, Vaginal Prolapse. These are “yes/no” traits and in most Katahdins flocks are low in frequency. It is hard to make significant progress since dystocia and vaginal prolapse typically are rare (less than 10%) and often are affected by management (overfeeding during late gestation). Strict culling of relatives will have a

minimal impact on removing animals with genetics predisposed to these traits, while greatly decreasing abil-ity to make progress on other traits. A few guidelines will help.

Vaginal prolapse tends to repeat and a ewe who prolapses as a year-ling or two year old, will typically pro-lapse again the next year or in a couple years. Culling an occasional ewe (less than 10% of your first time lambing ewes) will have no significant effect on your flocks genetic predisposition to prolapse, but culling needs to occur.

Dystocia in Katahdins is less re-peatable. If few ewes (10% or less) in the flock have dystocia, culling a ewe that requires help with lambing once in her career will have little impact on flock genetics for dystocia.

It tends not to repeat. Many of the ewes that have dystocia may need help once in 7-8 lambings.

Since vaginal prolapse and dysto-cia are not highly heritable, aggres-sive culling of a ewe and all of her relatives is probably more than what a shepherd needs to do. As well as being lowly heritable, her offspring’s genetics are diluted in half by a ram.

But there are times in which "ag-gressive" culling of a ewe and her close relatives are warranted. It takes good record keeping. Every ewe who prolapses or has lambing difficulties

needs to be flagged and each year’s lambing records need to be evaluated with regards to previous years. When should breeders aggressively cull for dystocia and vaginal prolapse? Here are a few suggestions.• If a ewe requires assistance lambing

2-3x in her career: Culling of the ewe is warranted. Repeatability greatly increases the likelihood of this be-ing genetic. If the breeder is part of the National Sheep Improvement Program and EBVs (estimated breeding values) for birth weight, a high birth weight EBV could be part of the decision process.

• If several of a ewe’s close relatives or a ram’s daughters prolapse or have dystocia: Suggest culling the daugh-ters of that ewe and ram and look closely at older relatives or her half sibs.

• If 20-30% or more of the flock has dystocia: This indicates significant genetic issues in the flock (need to distinguish between the manage-ment issues of over feeding and whole flock genetic problems). At 20-30%, genetics that predispose ewes to these difficulties is present and genetic progress can be made by rigorous culling. It will take a few years to fix.

• Operations that have their greatest fi-nancial losses associated with cases of dystocia or prolapse. This would tend to be shepherds that work off farm 50 or more hours a week or travel extensively during lambing season. Profit in these operations is not as strongly affected by growth or other common genetic goals, but by easy care. In this case, aggressive culling of a ewe and relatives for dystocia or prolapse can occur to minimize any chance of a management issue. These operations can decide that it is worth culling 5-10 ewes to prevent one occurrence of lamb-ing issues.Some breeders may also decide to

not keep ram lambs or buy rams out of ewes that have ever had a case of dystocia. It has value, but will limit progress on other traits.

Culling does not mean passing these problems on to another Katah-din breeder. Those culled sheep need to move into slaughter channels.

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Table 3. Dam Production Record (number born/number weaned)Age of Ewe Ewe 1 Ewe 2 Ewe 3 Ewe 4 Ewe 5

1 1/1 2/2 1/1 2/1 2/22 2/2 1/1 2/2 3/2 3/33 1/1 2/2 2/2 3/1 3/24 1/1 2/2 2/2 3/1 3/3

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Midwest Stud Ram Sale

Sedalia, MOJune 25-27, 2012

8th Annual KHSI Expo Sale

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We have a great set of Ram Lambs and Ewe Lambs for sale

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Lee Wright, Superintendent- Virginia Tech Southwest AREC

This summer, the Virginia Tech Southwest Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Glade Spring, Virginia will be doing their first evalu-ation of ram performance on pasture. Sheep operations in the Southeastern USA have access to forage much of the year and are distant from the grain production areas of the Midwest and Plains regions of the USA. Economical lamb production for many operations is best fit by genetics that can resist gastrointestinal parasites and gain on pasture.

The goal of the new program is to evaluate rams for growth performance and parasite resistance, and serve as an educational tool for the industry.

Virginia Tech Southwest AREC 2012 Pasture Ram Test On ScheduleEvaluation of Post-Weaning Gain & Parasite Resistance

The Southwest AREC has recently constructed new facilities conducive to hosting this activity- including a new barn and adjacent forage pad-docks.

Nominations for the test were due on May 10th and the pasture gain part of the test will begin on June 25th and run for 70 days, ending September 3rd. At the end of the test, the average daily gain and weight gain per day of age will be calculated and compared to the test average. Every 14 days, fecal egg count and FAMACHA scores will be collected for evaluation of parasite load and resistance. The loin eye area and depth will be evaluated at the end of the test.

Participating flocks must consign a minimum of three rams and multiple

ram lambs/sire are strongly encour-aged. This structure will help par-ticipants better evaluate their service sires and ram lambs. Performance of relatives improves the test’s ability to evaluate ram lamb genetics.

In the fall issue of the Katahdin Hairald and also at the KHSI Web-site (calendar page), Virginia Tech will announce the Field Day that will summarize the ram results. For more information and to review the com-plete guidelines at

http://www.apsc.vt.edu/extension/sheep/ or contact Lee Wright at 276-

944-2200 or [email protected], and Dr. Scott Greiner at 540-231-9159 or [email protected].

Visit the KHSI website at www.katahdins.org!• Past issues of the Hairald

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It was an excellent year for the Katahdin association and Katahdin breeders. It will take even more effort in 2012 to surpass 2011.

Keep up the good work. Promotion, good customer service, selling quality stock will help keep the sales and reg-istrations coming at record rates.

Katahdin breeders sold more registered sheep than any other breed in the USA. Katahdins moved up from being 4th on the transfer list where it had been in 2009 and 2010. Transfers are a good measure of how many registered sheep have sold.

Katahdins also improved in registrations statistics. Our registration numbers jumped from 6th to 3rd. Katahdins had been 6th in registrations since 2001, when they were 5th.

Top 6 Breeds for RegistrationsBreed 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003Suffolk 9546 9811 10146 11034 12519 13199 13658 14230 15001Hampshire 8112 6793 8459 7583 9127 8505 9064 9104 9066Katahdin 6744 4753 4979 5070 5089 5987 4645 4209 3889Dorper 6176 5045 4998 5337 5763 6823 7216 6050 5469Dorset 6045 6240 7211 7434 7825 8311 9147 9743 9568Southdown 5010 5059 5026 5222 5174 6020 5566 5742 5694

Top 6 Breeds for TransfersBreed 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003Katahdin 3907 2761 2584 2232 2588 2844 2718 2232 1555Hampshire 3485 3390 3752 3658 3929 3811 4245 4123 4261Suffolk 3140 3453 3934 4700 5310 6992 5649 6145 6875Dorset 2912 3157 3545 3680 4073 4113 4614 4581 4956Dorper 2723 2645 2384 2360 2426 3089 2916 2682 1685Southdown 2506 2548 2426 2537 2522 2746 2817 3142 2723

*-Statistics taken from the Banner Magazine (March 2012).

Jake Carlson, Amity MissouriWe welcome everyone to the 4th

annual MKHAA (Midwest Katah-din Hair Sheep Association) private treaty sale and educational meeting. It will take place Friday August 31 and Saturday September 1 (Labor Day Weekend) and will be held at the Dekalb County Fairgrounds in Maysville Missouri. Check-in of sheep starts Friday in the morning and runs all day. There will be a catered meal and meeting on Friday. On Saturday, there will be several presentations of interest to all sheep producers. The public is invited to come and listen

Midwest Katahdin Association Private Treaty Sale and MeetingAugust 31 - September 1

and check out Katahdin sheep. Anyone wishing to bring Katah-

dins or sheep-related items, (equip-ment, feed, mineral, or other items) for sale are asked to donate items for door prizes. We ask that you call or email me with your Katahdin consign-ments or sheep equipment/feed items so that I can advertise your animals and have a projected count of folks for the Friday evening meal.

We would also encourage breed-ers to bring working and guardian dog/animals as well. Remember that guardian animals and sheep need interstate health papers for sales into

neighboring states. We are looking for sponsors to help

with advertisement, or any help with advertisement we can get—we appre-ciate grassroots volunteers to get out the info, and word of mouth works. This will be a great middle-of-the-country Katahdin event. All breeders from across the nation are welcome to be involved and exhibit—we ask payment of one year’s dues to the Midwest Katahdin Hair Sheep As-sociation.

Please contact me: Jake Carl-son, 660-541-2986 or email me at [email protected]

Katahdins Move Up in Registrations and Transfers*

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By KHSI OperationsDo I need my member number

to register sheep?First, if you do not know your

member number, don’t panic. You can still register sheep. The member number is an aid. It helps the Reg-istry find you and put your official farm/ranch name and all owners on the certificates.

Second, after paying to register or transfer a sheep, your member num-ber will be on the receipt/invoice sent to you by the Registry. Keep that for future reference.

How do I find my member number?

The member number is assigned by the KHSI Registry in Iowa the first time that you register sheep with KHSI. If you have registered sheep since April 2010, and received certifi-cates from the KHSI Registry in Iowa, your member number will be on the receipt/invoice sent by the Registry. Write it down in your flock notes.

If you are new to KHSI and have bought a registered sheep that is transferred into your name from an-other breeder, and you have received a certificate from the Registry, look on the back of the registration paper. Where your address shows up as the new owner, you will also see your member number.

If you bought the sheep and the breeder handed you the registration

“Where is My Member Number?”certificate, you will need to fill out your own address on the back of the certificate and send it in to the Registry in Iowa, leaving the member number blank. When the Registry sends you back the certificate, your member number will be filled in—again, write it down where you keep your flock notes.

If you have never registered sheep with KHSI, if you are a new member, or if you have not registered any sheep since the KHSI Registry moved to Iowa in 2010, you will probably not have recorded your member number. The first time you register sheep us-ing the Work Order and Application for Registration Form just leave the line for the member number blank. Then, when your registration papers arrive, you can look for the number and record it.

What if I still can’t find my member number?

If you have done all of the above and still can’t find your member number, and you’re trying to get your sheep registered, just be sure you completely fill out all the rest of the information on the Work Order and leave the line for member number blank. Go ahead and send it in. This will allow the Registry to locate your information using other methods. It is just easier and faster if your member number is filled out.

Note: The KHSI Registry uses the member numbers in their database. As

of now, KHSI Operations does not as-sign or have access to those numbers. So if you really really want your num-ber, in spite of us reassuring you that you can send in your papers without it, please call the KHSI Registry at 641-942-6402.

Where NOT to write in your member number:

When you are transferring sheep, you should clearly print the new owner’s name, address, etc on the back of the registration paper for the sheep you are selling. You will see a place for a member number but that is for the NEW OWNER—please leave it blank. The Registry will fill that in when they have officially transferred the sheep to the new owner. Then the new owner will have their own number,

Note: if you are selling sheep it is a wonderful courtesy and very help-ful to the new owner if you complete the transfer process and send the cer-tificate to the Registry in Iowa right after the sale. If you do this, you may wish to make a copy of the certificate and write “copy—original sent to the Registry for transfer” to give to the new owner.

If you do decide instead to give the new owner the original certificate, please help them by reviewing exactly what they need to do next.

We hope this clears up some of the mysteries around the member number.

National Workshop Features Cutting Edge Work on Improving Sheep Production The NCERA 214 Sheep Research Com-

mittee will hold a Sheep Research Weekend at the Clay Center Regional Events Center in Spencer, Iowa on July 27-28, 2012. All sheep producers are invited to come hear about cutting edge sheep information and meet researchers from across the US who can help you use their results to improve your sheep flock production. If you learn best by seeing, hearing and asking questions—this is an event for you, with amazing resource people gathered all in one place!

Registration is $50 per person (includes leg of lamb dinner). Sign up online at the following link: http://www.aep.iastate.edu/sheep/

At press time, we did not yet have a phone number for registration information. If you do not have internet access, you can call Iowa KHSI member Carl Ginapp at 641-425-0592 and he will help you find a phone number for someone who will help you register.

On Friday July 27 the program begins at 1:30 and finishes at 9 pm, with a break for a social hour and lamb dinner (included in registration price). On Saturday the program will continue from 8am-11:15 am, ending in time for the Center of the Nation sale to be held at the same location.

Friday’s presentations include: Long-Term Economic Outlook for the United States Sheep Industry and the Impact of Ewe Productivity on Profit by Erica Rosa-Sanko, Agricultural Econo-mist, Livestock Marketing Information Center, Denver; Use of Breed Resources to Generate More Lambs in Commercial Operations by Dr. Kreg Leymaster, USDA Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center; Accelerated Lambing Sys-tems to Generate More Lambs by Dr. Richard Ehrhardt, Sheep Extension Specialists, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Successful Use Of CIDRs To Increase Out of Season Breeding and Controlling Embryo Losses by Dr. Keith

Inskeep, West Virginia University, Morgantown; Critical Nutrient Inputs to Increase Lambs Born and Their Survival by Dr. Dan Morrical, Iowa State University, Ames. The keynote address on Ge-nomics and Marker Assisted Selection Tools For Breeding Better Sheep will be delivered by Dr. Dave Notter, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA. The keynote will be followed by a talk on New Concepts In OPP Selection And Eradication by Dr. Kreg Leymaster

Saturday’s presentations include: Strategies to Minimize Resistant Internal Parasites on Your Farm by Dr. James Miller, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Creative Ways to Raise More Sheep with the Same Resources by Mike Caskey "Lead Instructor" to Pipestone Lamb And Wool Program, Pipestone, MN.

The morning will finish up with a Q&A session with the presenters.

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Welcome to Rack of Lamb Corral. Our ranch is located at Windom, KS. We, Todd and Renee, started our flock with full force. We are the type of country folks, when we do something we do it right. We mean to raise the best hair sheep we can and that’s exactly what you’ll find here at Rack of Lamb Corral. Our goal is to raise and sell high quality breeding rams and replacement ewes. We have a flock of 100 registered Katahdin Hair Sheep.

All breeding rams are “RR”. We are proud members of Katahdin Hair Sheep International (KHSI) and are in the Volunteer Scrapie Flock Program.

Here is an example of the bloodlines you will find in our flock: COR 2003-12 MCD SURE THING; PBB 6169; JM 8-18; ED 4-28B; GR 209; GF G7029; ROS 05 18-32; DJF 226L SAMPSON; COR 09-18; VJ 6036; JM 7-20 MCD NEW GENERATION; BTS 445H GOLIATH; SBR 1154 THE OLD MAN; COR 05-26 GOLD MINE; COR 06-84 MCD MAIN STAY; COR 05-54 MCD SOUTHERN GENTLEMEN; COR 97-16 MCD POWER-UP MCD POWER-UP; Cccc 380N; MVF 5514; MVF 5331; MVF 0255; HLB 2240; COR 2004-76; SWP 06-214 CORNERSTONE; PVR 125 BIG-UN; LHB 60 DOC DOC; SWP 06-204 FRONTIER; TMD 8-106; CMG 9059; NDS 5648; COR 2002-20 “MCD LOADED WAGON”; LU 05-005

STUD RAM “DOCTOR HLB-2240”

Doc’s son Doctor is now at our ranch. Doctor was born a twin with a very powerful pedigree. He is bred to 31 hand selected Rack of Lamb Corral ewes, they will start lambing in March 2012. We are very excited to see the new crop of

lambs that this outstanding buck sired. Taking orders for his ewe and ram lambs now.

STUD RAM “FULLY LOADED LU 07-001”

Fully Loaded is now at our ranch. He is the direct son of the great MCD Loaded Wagon COR 2002-20 ram. When Fully Loaded takes a step in the ring, he WINS. In 2007 he won Grand Champion at the Missouri State Fair as a spring lamb and again in 2008 he won Grand Champion as a yearling. Fully Loaded’s sire Loaded

Wagon was bought from Mark Dennis of the Country Oak Ranch in Louisiana. Fully Loaded’s dam LU 05-005 is owned by Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. She is the best proven ewe they have ever owned. Fully Loaded’s sire and dam combination was a huge success. Taking orders for his ewe and ram lambs now.

STUD RAM “CMG 11001”

CMG 11001 is bred to 19 Rack of Lamb Corral Ewes. He is as fined tuned ram as you will find. His EBVs are very impressive. He is the direct son out of CMG 9059 and grandson out of TMD 8-106.Taking orders for his ewe and ram lambs now.

TRBRack of Lamb Corral

Rack of Lamb CorralOwners/Operators Todd and Renee Bauer

3020 Hwy 56 Windom, KS 67491- 620-489-6240 or 620-245-1884Website: www.rackoflambcorral.com

TRB

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2012 Katahdin Hairald Publications & Ad DeadlinesThe Katahdin Hairald publishing

schedule for the remainder of 2012 is listed below. The following explana-tions may be helpful for your decision-making about placing ads.

The Hairald has two types of ads, Classified Ads and Display Ads. Clas-sified ads are word ads that are listed in the classified ads page. Classifieds are free to all paid KHSI members and can be 40 words long. They are for advertising Katahdin sheep. Display

ads are 1/8 (business card), 1⁄4, 1⁄2 and whole page black & white or in color. Individual members can commit for 4 consecutive display ads and receive a 10% discount. Contact KHSI Opera-tions for more information (479-444-8441; [email protected])

Arrival of the Katahdin Hairald in member mail boxes typically ranges from 1-3 weeks after the mailing date, depending on bulk mailing deliveries of the US Postal Service.

Fall WinterArticle Deadline/Display Ad commitment Jun 22 Oct 11deadline (includes size of ad)Display Ad content due to Xpressions Jul 4 Oct 24Classified Ads due to Operations Jul 4 Oct 24Mailing date (Bulk Mail) Jul 28 Nov 17

Come to the KHSI Expo & Sale and Buy Your Next Breeding Ram

Wooster, Ohio August 11, 2012

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The Katahdin Hairald is the official publication of Katahdin Hair Sheep International, which provides education about:• registering individual Katahdin sheep and recording performance• maintaining the distinct identity of the Katahdin breed• approaches to promotion and marketing• summaries of research and development related to the breed

2011-2012 Board of DirectorsPresident: Wes Limesand, [email protected], 701-235-2114, North DakotaVice President: Carl Ginapp, [email protected], 641-425-0592, IowaSecretary: Roxanne Newton, [email protected], 229-794-3456, GeorgiaTreasurer: Lee Wright, [email protected], 276-646-3010, VirginiaDirector: Maria Dosch, [email protected], 605-329-2478, South DakotaDirector: G.F. “Doc” Kennedy, [email protected], 507-215-0487; MinnesotaDirector: Henry Shultz, [email protected] ,573-682-7127, Missouri

Honorary: Charles Brown, Piel Farm, MaineHonorary: Charles Parker, [email protected], Ohio

Canada Representative: Darlene Jordan, [email protected], 306-746-4361Mexico Representative: Dr. Alejandro Ferrer, [email protected], 011-522-712-3109

KHSI Registry: KHSI Registrar: Karey Claghorn • KHSI Registry, P.O. Box 51, Milo, IA 50166 for USPS 222 Main St., Milo, IA 50166 for FedEx or UPS Phone – 641-942-6402, Fax – 641-942-6502; Email – [email protected]• Contact the Registry with questions about registration, recording, transferring, upgrading procedures. • Send the following to the Registry: - Completed forms for registering, recording, transferring and naming Katahdins • Office Hours (Central time): Monday to Friday 9 am- 4pm.

KHSI Committees: (Call 479-444-8441 to volunteer; Committee Chairs listed with committee)

Publishing/Hairald: Lee Wright – 276-698-6079Registry Liaison: Maria Dosch - 605-329-2478Website: Carl Ginapp - 641-425-0592

Promotion: Roxanne Newton - 229-794-3456Youth/Education: Henry Shultz – 573-682-7127Expo Sale: Wes Limesand - 701-235-2114Breed Improvement: Ron Young - 419-495-2993

KHSI Member’s Guide 02/12

KHSI Operations:• Jim Morgan and Teresa Maurer; PO Box 778; Fayetteville, AR 72702-0778 Phone and FAX: 479-444-8441; [email protected] • Send the following to KHSI Operations (Arkansas)-Completed membership and renewal forms and $50 for calendar year

dues (renewals due by January 31 each year) Note: new memberships and renewals can be paid online by Paypal at website.

• Contact Operations for the following: - Request coat inspections before May 15- Address changes or other corrections for print or web- Copies of histories, breed standards, etc- BLANK work orders and registration applications. Note: forms and materials are printable from website www.katahdins.org- Brochures (20 free per member per year; additional at

cost) & promotional items- Information on members with sheep for sale, anyone

wanting to buy sheep- Articles, ads, and comments to be published in the

Katahdin Hairald- Volunteer for KHSI Committees- Annual meeting information

• Office Hours (Central time): Monday, Wednesday, Friday (10 am - 3 pm). Calls at other times including evenings and weekends will be answered personally whenever possible.

• Answering machine, FAX and email: available for messages 24 hours per day.

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KHSI Board of Director Meeting Minutes, December 1, 2011

E. Breed Improvement: Chair Ron Young, Laura Fortmeyer, Carl Gi-napp, Doc Kennedy, David Coplen, Henry Shultz.

F. Expo: Co-Chairs: Lee Wright and Roxanne Newton, Kathy Bielek, KHSI Operations.

G. Website/Facebook: Chair Carl Ginapp, Maria Dosch

H. Nominations: TBAI. Finance & Budget: Chair Lee

Wright, KHSI Operations.J. Registry Liaison: Maria Dosch8. Wes Limesand suggested the Expo

Sale committee look into ways to make the KHSI Expo more eco-nomical and efficient. The Board also discussed various options for providing funding for youth pro-grams in the future.

9. Henry Shultz moved to adjourn, Lee Wright seconded. Motion car-ried and meeting was adjourned at 8:22 CT.Roxanne Newton, Secretary

Business Card Ads in the Hairald

for members advertising sheep are currently $15 black/white or

$25 color

Conference call meeting held De-cember 1, 2011

Present: Wes Limesand, Carl Gi-napp, Lee Wright, Roxanne Newton, Henry Shultz, G.F. “Doc” Kennedy, and KHSI Operations: Jim Morgan and Teresa Maurer. Absent: Maria Dosch

President Wes Limesand convened the meeting at 7pm Central.1. Henry Shultz moved and Lee

Wright seconded to accept minutes as read from KHSI Board Meeting of September 8, 2011. Motion car-ried unanimously.

2. Financial Summary and Operations Report provided by Jim Morgan (KHSI Operations) through Oc-tober 31, 2011. Roxanne Newton moved and Lee Wright seconded to accept 2011 Financial Reports. Motion carried unanimously.

3. Operations Report: Jim Morgan presented the latest registration, recordation and transfer numbers, noting the 2nd highest number of registrations and a near 15% in-crease in transfers so far in 2011.

4. Old Business: President Wes Lime-sand thanked Doc and Deb Ken-nedy, on behalf of the Board, for hosting the highly successful 2011 KHSI Expo in Pipestone, MN. The Expo sale committee was asked to investigate ways to expedite the sales process either manually or via computer.

NEW BUSINESS: 5. Motion: Lee Wright moved that the

“KHSI Board of Directors directs KHSI Operations to donate $100 to

memorial funds of individuals who have served on the KHSI Board of Directors or are KHSI Honorary Life Members and $50 to the me-morial funds of immediate family members of the past and present KHSI Board of Directors. KHSI Operations will notify the current board of directors of the donation and memorial information. If ques-tions arise, KHSI Operations will query the KHSI Board for more direction.” Motion was seconded by Carl Ginapp. Motion carried unanimously.

6. 2012 Expo Update: Roxanne New-ton provided an update based on an e-mailed outline provided by Kathy Bielek on the proposed scheduling for the KHSI Expo to be held August 9-11, 2012 in Wooster, Ohio. Further updates regarding lodging and catering are expected to be available before the next Board meeting.

7. Committees: Wes Limesand as-signed the following:

A. Promotions: Chair Roxanne Newton, Donna Stoneback, Dusty Markham, Milledge Newton, KHSI Operations.

B. Expo Sale: Chair Wes Limesand, Lee Wright, Doc Kennedy, Maria Dosch, Tom Dosch, KHSI Opera-tions.

C. Youth Education & Shows: Chair Henry Shultz, John Dyer, Howard Brown, Kenneth Jessee.

D. Publications: Chair Lee Wright, Dr. Dick Brzozowski, Richard Gilbert, KHSI Operations.

Round Mountain Katahdins

Selecting for stock with balanced EPDs and superior Lbs Lamb Weaned

Jim Morgan & Teresa MaurerNW AR • 479-444-6075

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Performance-Based Selection on Pasture

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NSIP, SFCPcertified scrapie free

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Hunt Road Katahdin Sheep FarmRaymond and Cheryl Smith

706 Hunt Rd., LaGrange, GA 30241706-333-4055

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Registered & Certified

Scrapie Free Katahdin Breeding/

Show Stock (#GA966)

The KHSI Youth Committee recommended to the KHSI Board of Directors that a Katahdin Youth Scholar-ship Program be initiated. The Board approved the new scholarship fund.

The first two $500 scholarships will be awarded at the KHSI Expo in Wooster, Ohio on Friday Evening August 10th. So far, KHSI has received $360 in donations to help with the scholarship program.

KHSI is also accepting donations for Youth Show Pre-miums. The Youth Committee will be meeting soon to set the guidelines for the disbursement of these funds. There is currently $255 in the Youth Premium fund.

If you would like to donate to either or both of these programs, you may send a check payable to KHSI to PO Box 778, Fayetteville, Arkansas. In the check memo, indicate which programs the funds should be applied to.

In the Winter 2012 issue of the Katahdin Hairald, KHSI will recognize all farms donating to these funds in a full page Display Ad.

Donations Welcome for Katahdin Youth Scholarships and Youth Show Premiums

Don't Forget! Send all registrations & transfers to the KHSI Registry in Milo, IA.

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Spring and summer are busy times for youth interested in Katahdins so we are highlight-ing some specific deadlines and events so that you don’t miss out!

KHSI is initiating a new scholarship program for youth entering or already in college or in graduate school. Two $500 scholarships will be awarded to youth for use at any US college or university. Applications are now available at the KHSI Web-site: www.katahdins.org and they must be received by June 30, 2012 to be considered for this year’s competition. Those with limited internet access can call KHSI Operations at 479-444-8441 to request application materials.

Briefly: to be eligible, the ap-plicant must be a youth member of KHSI, or their immediate fam-ily must have a current KHSI membership. Applicant must be under 21 as of January 1, 2012 or under age 26 if applying for

graduate school and must have been involved with Katahdin sheep for at least 1 year. For questions about the

scholarship, or to request applica-tion materials, please call KHSI at 479-444-8441, visit the KHSI web-site www.katahdins.org or email [email protected]

Henry Shultz, chair of the KHSI Youth Committee, reminds all youth about two upcoming youth shows. More details about the shows are in the previous issue of the Katahdin Hairald, Spring 2012. The two youth shows are the 3rd Annual Midwest Junior Preview Show on June 16 in Chillicothe, Missouri www.midwestjuniorpreviewshow .com, and the 2nd Annual Dr Leroy Boyd Memorial Youth Show held on June 27 in conjunction with the Mid-west Stud Ram Show & Sale at the Missouri State Fairground in Sedalia, Missouri.

Since summer is a season for great photos: remember that the KHSI Photo Contest has a special category “Just for Youth”. If you are under 19 years old, you can enter photos for any category in this special contest for youth pho-tographers only. Prizes can be used to register sheep or receive Katahdin hats or T shirts. See 2012 Photo Contest Article on page 9.

KHSI Operations often receives calls from people struggling to find information useful for sheep breed-ers. We want to remind KHSI mem-bers that there are several outstanding opportunities in 2012 to learn about sheep production directly from expert shepherds and educators.

If you are someone who learns best by interacting with others, please read on! We are willing to bet this year that most Katahdin breeders will be able to find a meeting within driving distance. While plane tickets are expensive if you are farther away, the investment offers great opportunities to meet, talk with and listen to sheep educators and researchers who have national and in-ternational experience.

There are two national events: the KHSI Expo and Sale in Wooster, Ohio on August 9-11 and the Two Day Symposium in Spencer, Iowa on July 27-28. Both events feature presenters with national and international repu-tations and are worth figuring out how to make them fit your summer schedule (see page 20 for details of workshop in Spencer, IA).

Three regional events of interest to Katahdin breeders also offer oppor-tunities to learn. The South Central Katahdin Hair Sheep Association will gather at the SCKA 11th Annual meeting in Folsom, Louisiana on June 8-9. The Midwest Katahdin Hair Sheep Association is hosting their 4th annual Private Treaty Sale and Field

Day in Maysville, Missouri, August 31-September 1. And 2012 brings a new Field Day to be held during a Sep-tember weekend at the Virginia Tech Southwest AREC in Glade Spring, Virginia.

Don’t forget: not all the learning ex-periences come from the front of the room; they also occur talking to other sheep breeders over a cup of coffee or a meal of lamb.

Editor’s Note: The KHSI Website and Hairald Calendar (in this issue)has contact information for these events. To find out about state sheep meetings and training programs or the national sheep educational meetings held by the American Sheep Industry every Janu-ary, check the calendar section of http://sheepindustrynews.org/.

"Must Be Fair Time" 1st Place, Kids & Sheep Category

2011 Photo ContestPhotograph by Joanne Kern, Montana

Opportunities to Learn More About Sheep Production & Sheep Breeding in 2012

Focus on EWE-TH

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New “Ewesfull” Gizmo Contest at 2012 ExpoKHSI members have asked about

low cost or useful gadgets, structures and equipment that sheep producers can make. These questions have resulted in a contest proposed by new KHSI member, Ginger Davidson of Hanover, Indiana.

Prizes will be awarded as KHSI Bucks at the KHSI Annual Meeting Friday, August 10th Friday evening (need not be present to win). First place prize is $100 and second place $75. You can redeem your prize for KHSI membership, registry services and promotional clothing. Winning entries will be written up in the Katahdin Hairald. So start now to work on your entry by taking pictures of your current favorite Gizmo or design a new Gizmo to enter!

There are two categories: a) Made from Scratch and b) Repurposing of Purchased Items. If it has saved you money or increased your farm’s bottom line or made shepherding easier; KHSI wants want to see

them and share them with other shepherds!

What do you need to submit? The needed items follow: a) What motivated you to devise it? (brief statement) b) List of materials needed. c) Estimated cost of materials. d) Estimated time to construct. e) Tools required. f) Instructions for building Gizmo: include design specifications, measurements if needed. g) Photo(s) of finished “Gizmo”. h) Following signed Statement: “I designed My KHSI Ewesfull Gizmo entry”. i) Optional: include photos of construction to help with building instructions or photos of the Gizmo in use.

The entries will be placed on poster panels outside the workshop rooms during the Expo Workshops at the Shisler Center at Wooster, OH on Friday August 10th. Expo attendees will have the opportunity to vote and will evaluate based on usefulness, creativity and cost effectiveness.

Entries are due July 21, 2012. Send

to: Roxanne Newton, 5550 Skipper Bridge Rd, Hahira, GA 31632, 229-794-3456 or [email protected]. Entries can be emailed or submitted by mail. If you have questions, contact Jim Morgan, KHSI Operations 479-444-8441, [email protected] or Roxanne Newton (contact info above).

Editor’s Note. We thank Ginger Davidson of Hanover, Indiana for the development of this contest. She has had to step out of the contest management since recent tornadoes that went through Southern Indiana lifted the roof off her house (and set it back down). It did lots more damage to her home and farm but somehow missed the sheep, even though the funnel touched ground in the pasture with the sheep!

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2012 KHSI Expo Sale Requirements For Commercial Ewes - Registered Rams & EwesREQUIREMENTS FOR BOTH COMMER-

CIAL & REGISTERED SHEEP SALES:• Consigned sheep must be delivered

to at Wayne County Fairgrounds, Wooster Ohio by 5 PM, Thursday Aug 9, 2012 (pens will be available on Wednesday, August 8th).

• Sheep must be genotyped QR or RR at codon 171. Papers from genotyp-ing company must be turned in by the time that consigned sheep are checked in.

• Interstate Health Certificates are required. Certificates must include a statement from the Veterinarian that flock is free of contagious foot rot. Rams must have a B. ovis nega-tive test within 30 days of sale.

• All animals are required to have either Mandatory or Scrapie Flock Certification Program tags.

• Consigned animals must be bred and raised by consignor who is a current member of KHSI.

• At least one pen of Commercial Ewes or a Registered Ewe must be consigned for each Registered Ram (no exceptions).

• Consignment Forms need to be re-ceived by KHSI Operations by June 30, 2012. (plan ahead to register & genotype consigned stock).

REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMERCIAL KATAHDIN EWE SALE:

• Minimum weight of 70 pounds for Spring Ewe Lambs

• At least three-fourths Katahdin (do not need to be recorded with KHSI Registry)

• Age Classes; Yearling (9/1/10 -8/31/11), Fall ewe lambs (9/1/11 -12/31/11), Spring Ewe Lambs (Jan 1-May 31)

• Consigned as pens of 3, 4 or 5 ewes (not as individual ewes)

• Shed over 2/3 of body (ewes must not be shorn or clipped; commer-cial ewes may be tail-docked)

• Consignment Fee of $20/pen• Expo Sale Committee has the right

to reject commercial ewe sale en-tries.REQUIREMENTS FOR REGISTERED

KATAHDIN SALE:• Sale animals must not be docked or

clipped • Accurate recording of date of birth,

type of birth (1-2-3-4), and type of rearing (0-1-2-3-4 measured at 30 days of age), must be provided for each animal

• Dam production records are re-quired (number lambs born/reared for each year of production)

• 60-day weight must be provided (taken on or around 60 days of age; 45-90 days of age is allowable, but must be done prior to weaning). The date at which this weight is taken must be recorded.

• Birth weights and 120 day weights are optional, but are highly recom-mended.

• Consignment Fee of $20 per animal. Classes include Rams & Ewes for the following ages: Yearlings (9/1/10-8/31/11), Fall (9/1/11 - 12/31/11), Jan 1-Feb 15 born, Feb 15-Mar 31 born, April 1 and after

PUBLICATION SCHEDULE• Consignment forms - Available

May 15, 2012• Expo Sale Catalog – Available July

10, 2012Contact Wes Limesand,

chair of Expo Sale committee [email protected] or 701-235-2114. Jim Morgan, KHSI Operations at 479-444-8441 or [email protected]

NOTE: Final Expo Sale Regulations & Consignment Forms will be posted at the KHSI Website Calendar Page by May 15th.

Roxanne Newton, GeorgiaWith the increased demand for

Katahdin breeding stock, it seems timely to remind Katahdin breeders of proper etiquette when registering, recording and transferring ownership of breeding stock. Reputable breed-ers will register, transfer and PAY for the change of ownership at the time of purchase or soon thereafter. Those that don’t, often leave new owners with only copies of the registrations and no instructions as to how or where to register their new flock.

In addition, many new owners do not realize they’ll incur increased fees if the sheep are not transferred within 60 days of the sale date. Likewise, many new owners are unaware that by becoming members of KHSI, they will only pay half what a non-member pays for these services.

Etiquette When Selling Breeding StockFor sellers too frugal to pay for

transferring ownership, it would be more considerate to add the cost of these services to the value of the sheep BEFORE quoting your price to the buyer. Then you as the respon-sible seller should immediately submit the paperwork and payment to the KHSI Registry in Iowa to complete the transfer.

“Satisfaction after the sale” is a motto that all Katahdin Breeders should espouse and is a reflection of your professional ethics. It will have a positive impact on your reputation as a breeder and businessperson. So, remember to make the following steps part of your selling and education pro-cess in working with your buyers:

KHSI strongly recommends:• that you as the seller should regis-

ter, transfer and pay for the change of ownership.

• that you give the buyer a copy of the KHSI membership form and explain the benefits of joining, which includes savings on sheep registration fees.

If you cannot do the above, then assist the buyer by doing the follow-ing:• Provide the seller with the cer-

tificate and instruct them carefully on how to complete the transfer of ownership and where and when to send the payment and the certifi-cate.

• Emphasize that the buyer will save money by sending in the pa-perwork within 60 days of the sale date.

• Explain that joining KHSI will allow them to save 50% off the registration fees.

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Classified sale ads for Katahdin or Katahdin-cross sheep are free to all KHSI members in the Katahdin Hairald and at the KHSI website. For the Hairald, please limit length to 40 words. Sheep Wanted Ads can be placed for free for non-KHSI members. Classified Ad Content due July 4th, 2012 to KHSI Operations Office for the Fall 2012 Hairald. Contact KHSI Operations, 479-444-8441 or [email protected].

Classified Ads

SHEEP FOR SALE SHEEP FOR SALESHEEP FOR SALE

ALABAMANE AL. Registered Mature Proven RR Rams. Two year old “RR” son of “Trendsetter” & a yearling “RR” ram. Both have great size, depth. Need to replace our rams. Call for pictures. Frankie & Michelle Stiefel, Sand Mountain Katahdins, Section, AL. [email protected] or 256-609-1994 or www.sandmountainkatahdins.comSouthern AL. Registered QR & RR Ram Lambs. Two Feb born QR rams, $300 for one & $450 for the other. Feb born RR ram lamb with excel-lent coat, $500. Pictures on web site. Joey & Rhonda Kelmer of Ricochet Farm in Atmore, AL. 251-446-7587 or [email protected] or www.ricochetfarms.com

ARKANSASNW AR. Spring 2012 Lamb Crop. Available in June. Registered ewe & ram lambs, $250 ea. Dr Beverly Che-vallier. Western Grove, AR. [email protected] 870-429-5299 www.grassfedintheozarks.com

CALIFORNIANorthern CA. Registered QR/RR Ewe Lambs. 5 ewe lambs, all born twins or triplets, weaned early May. We breed all RR or QR animals. $350. Julie Browne of Tin Barn Katahdins, Cazade-ro, CA. [email protected] or 707-785-2982

ILLINOISSW IL. Registered ram lambs. $200 each. Strong, healthy breeding stock, born Feb/Mar 2012. Selling in June/July 2012. Don Scott of Vandalia, IL. 618-780-4776 [email protected] Yearling RR Ram. Feb 2011. Recorded at 75% but is straight Katahdin(no crossbreeding). This ram has great body mass and is long bodied. Don’t be scared away because he’s a percentage. Let him be your

new right hand man! I am willing to trade for a ram lamb, or ewe(s). Price negotiable. Samantha Bolen of NBM Farm. Carrollton, IL. 217-248-2976 or [email protected] IL. Fall Born Ram Lambs. 2011 fall born ram lambs sired by the champion ram at the 2011 Midwest Stud Ram Sale. These are top quality rams. Jeff Poynter of Poynter Sheep Farm, Paris, IL. 217-251-9984 or [email protected]

IOWARegistered RR & QR Ewe Lambs. Peggy Egertsen of Laurens Iowa. 712-845-4344 or [email protected] http://www.cedarcreekenglishshepherds.com/sheep11.htmlCentral IA. Registered Ewe Lambs. I currently have 9 ewe lambs mostly born in Feb & a few in early March. Pictures, Birthdates, sire info available upon request. $250 each. Kole Kinion of Kinion Katahdins, Sully IA, 641-891-1334 or [email protected]

KANSASCentral KS. Registered Ewe Lambs. Ttaking orders for 2012 lamb crop. 40 ewe lambs at $350.. Breeding stock at its best. We only breed to quality RR rams. Thanks for your interest. Todd & Renee Bauer, Rack of Lamb Corral, Windom KS. 620-245-1884, [email protected] or www.rackoflambcorral.com

KENTUCKYNE Kentucky. Registered RR Year-ling Ram & Proven Mature Ram. QR Ram born 2009. Excellent breeder, big, muscular ram, $500. Yearling Ram, nice color, never dewormed. $300. Neil & Abby Lennox of Lenox Ranch in Garrison, KY. 606-757-4271 or [email protected]. www.lenoxranch.com

LOUISIANARegistered Ewe & Ram Lambs, Year-ling QR Ram. 3 ram & 5 ewe lambs left

from spring lambing. SFCP Certified Free flock. More lambs first of May. Yearling QR ram born 4/2011, twin. Russell Adams, RF Adams Farms, Franklinton, LA. 985-515-9406 or [email protected]

MISSOURISouth Central MO. Registered Ewe Lambs & Yearling Rams. Taking orders for ewe lambs at weaning. $250 each. 3 yearling plus rams for $400 each. Enrolled in Scrapie Flock Certification Program. Rhubein & Carla Belcher of Belcher’s Katah-dins, Caulfield, MO. 417-284-1398 or [email protected]

MONTANASouth Central MT. Registered Ram Lambs & Commercial Ewe Lambs. 30 commercial ewe lambs ($175 ea) sired by registered rams. Mostly twin born Feb-Mar. $175 if taken at wean-ing (by June 1). Several registered ram lambs available. Christy Kemp, River Breaks Katahdins, Joliet, MT. 406-962-9945, www.bigskybreeders.com or [email protected]

TENNESSEESE TN. Registered QR & RR Lambs. Mar 2012 lambs sired by GLM 0607 & DLL 0618. All lambs DNA tested & registered. 18 Lambs starting at $250. Available July 1, 2012 Mi-chael Stumpff of Cedar Creek Farm, Georgetown, TN. 423-505-4274 or [email protected]

VERMONTNE VT. Commercial Ewe Lambs & Registered Ram Lambs. April lambing. Commercial ewe lambs & unrelated Registered ram lambs available early July, Taking depos-its. Prices at web site. Rod Hewitt, Dayspring Farm, Bellows Falls, VT. [email protected] or 802-376-5474 or http://www. dayspringfarm.com

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JUBILEE FARMLaura & Doug Fortmeyer

Fairview, Kansas25 years experience with Katahdins

NSIP since 1994 • SFCP Certified flock

Registered & commercial breeding stockBorn on pasture, Raised on pasture

785-467-8041 • [email protected]

573-682-5481

[email protected]

Henry Shultz & Family6219 Audrain Rd 125Centralia, Missouri

www.prairielanefarm.net

David and Nancy Maddox • Warm Springs, GA706-655-3407 • [email protected]

See our website and Breeders Page for more detailswww.warmspringskatahdins.com

KatahdinsWarm Springs Enrolled

NSIP

One hundred ewe flock Breeding Katahdins since 1999

Utilizing Lamb Plan EBVs

Certified VSFCP

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Brokaw Farm Katahdins, Patrick, Brenda, & Lee Brokaw, Illinois............................................................26CMG Katahdins, Carl & Marcia Ginapp, IA ............................................................................................8Country Oak Ranch, Mark & Sarah Dennis, Louisiana ..........................................................................31Destiny Acres/Misty Oak Farm/Wade-Jean Farm, Ohio........................................................................22Dosch Katahdins, Tom & Maria Dosch, South Dakota .................................................................... 2 & 31Fahrmeier Katahdins, Lynn & Donna Fahrmeier, Missouri .....................................................................28Hillcrest Katahdins, David S. Redwine, DVM, VA.............................................................................. 6 & 7Hound River Farm, Milledge & Roxanne Newton, GA ...........................................................................18Hunt Road Katahdin Sheep Farm, Cheryl Smith, Georgia .....................................................................26Jessee Farm, Kenneth & Connie Jessee, Virginia ..................................................................................11JM Katahdins, John & Mitzie Cannon, FL..............................................................................................31Jubilee Farm, Doug & Laura Fortmeyer, Kansas ...................................................................................31Lazy B Livestock, Howard & Lavonne Brown, Oklahoma ...................................................................... 15Lillehaugen Farms, Luke & Maynard Lillehaugen, North Dakota...........................................................12Mountain View Farm Katahdins, Eric & Dwight Dalton, Tennessee .............................................. 6, 16-17Pipestone Katahdins, Dr G F and Deb Kennedy, MN ..............................................................................5Prairie Lane Farms, Henry & Becky Shultz, Missouri ..............................................................................31Rack of Lamb Corral, Todd & Renee Bauer, Kansas ...............................................................................21Round Mountain Farm, Jim Morgan & Teresa Maurer, Arkansas............................................................24Spraberry Acres, Clifford Spraberry, Texas ............................................................................................31Thousand Oaks Ranch, Kevin & Toni Beatty, MO ..................................................................................25Warm Springs Katahdins, David Maddox, Georgia ...............................................................................31White Post Farm, John & Marian Stromquist, Illinois .............................................................................31Wingate Katahdin Ranch, Percy Wingate, Louisiana .............................................................................32Xpressions, Gail Hardy, Arkansas.........................................................................................................24Ad

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Dam- MCD New Generation daughter Our half interest purchase from Country

Oak Ranch Reserve Champion ram behind

“Saint John” @ Acadia Parish Livestock Show Supreme Champion ram

@ Southwest District Livestock Show Yearling weight-233lbs

Shown by: Drew Wingate

Our Goal is to raise top quality Katahdin Hair

Sheep that will work for ewe in the pasture and

in the show ring, not forgetting that Katahdins

are a meat sheep.Give us a call for your next replacement or

show winner.Sire-JM Main Objective “JM 8-30”

Dam-Loaded Wagon Granddaughter Our 2011 purchase from JM Katahdins

Supreme Champion Ram @ Acadia Parish Livestock Show

Yearling weight-218lbs. Shown by: Abby Wingate

Saint John “JM-1-42”

Percy, Georgette, Drew, Abby Wingate • Church Point, La. 337-344-8938 • wingatekatahdinranch.com

Wingate Katahdin Ranch

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Thursday, August 9, 2012 — Meet at FairgroundsLeading discussions at each farm will be: Bob Hendershot and Jeff McCutcheon on soils/forage; and Dr. Bill Shulaw and Rory Lewandowski on parasites.8:00 Tour buses leave fairgrounds (tour reservations required)8:30-10:00 Farm #1 – Deb & Jim Morris10:30-12:00 Farm #2 – Jeff & Kathy Bielek12:15-1:30 Lunch 1:45-3:15 Farm #3 – John & Betsy Anderson3:30 Return to fairgrounds6:00-8:00 NSIP Social

Friday, August 10, 2012 — Shisler Center, OARDC7:30-8:15 Registration8:15-8:30 Welcome – Russ Johnson, OHSIA President8:30-9:00 Dr. Charles Parker – “Pleasures raising Katahdins”9:00-9:45 Dr. Paul Kuber – “Visual selection and carcass evaluation”9:45-10:30 Dr. David Notter – “Advances in genetic selection in the 21st century”10:30-10:45 Break10:45-12:00 Dr. Francis Fluharty – “The basics of small ruminant nutrition”12:00-1:15 Lunch1:15-2:00 Dr Francis Fluharty –”Requirements of Minerals & Vitamins in Small Ruminants” 2:00-3:30 Breakout sessions (choose one option) Option 1: Selecting for Parasite Resistant Katahdins 2:00-2:20 Dr William Shulaw –“Paper or plastic?-resistant or resilient sheep” 2:20-2:40 Dr Dave Notter–“Genetic approaches to improve parasite resistance 2:40-3:00 Dr Joan Burke – “Animal selection on a pasture based system” 3:00-3:30 Panel discussion and Q&A Option 2: 2:00-3:30 Dr. Paul Kuber – “New & innovative lamb cuts for the consumer: carcass breakdown”3:30-4:00 Dr. Charles Parker – “Take home stories”4:00-4:15 Break4:15-5:15 Panel Discussion: Topic to be announced.5:15-6:15 KHSI annual meeting6:15-6:30 Break6:30 Dinner7:45 Ice cream social & view sale animals at fairgrounds

Saturday, August 11, 2011 — Fairgrounds8:30 Sale animals on display11:00 Lunch (ongoing)11:30 KHSI Expo Sale begins

KHSI 2012 Expo & Sale ScheduleWayne County Fairgounds & OARDC in Wooster, Ohio

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KHSIc/o Jim Morgan & Teresa MaurerP. O. Box 778Fayetteville, AR 72702-0778479-444-8441

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