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| Texel Ram Lambs for Sale. Only twelve left!
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In November of 2000, John and Eadie Steele had Texel embryos implanted into their OLIBS ewes. They wanted to be able to provide a complete package to commercial buyers - high health ewes and health-matched terminal sires. The Texel compliments the carcass type of the OLIBS ewe and the OLIBS ewe provides the prolificacy and milkiness needed to produce uniform, quality, market lambs. The Steele's current Texel genetics are new bloodlines to North America from New Zealand. They imported 127 Texel embryos to increase their Texel flock. These embryos were implanted in September 2001 and the resulting lambs were born in February 2002. The 38 ewes and 27 rams from various bloodlines, make an excellent foundation for their purebred flock. |
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July 2002 - 5 month old Texel rams for sale.
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| Texel Flock Sires from New Zealand | |||||||||||||
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One of the rams used in the New Zealand embryo importation was Meba 11. He was selected on his outstanding dam-line performance. Meba 11 was used in the year 2000 as one of three "Link Sires" in that year's New Zealand Sire Reference Scheme. The young Blackdale rams were selected out of 350 ram lamb crop. B15/99 was +2.2kg weaning weight deviation and was the 2nd highest eye muscle area out of the 105 lambs that they scanned. B201/99 was -1.3 kg on weaning weight deviation and 14th in eye muscle area. |
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Blackdale A228/97 (2210) (click for larger)
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Blackdale 201/99 (2512)at 6 months old (click for larger)
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Blackdale 15/99 (2508)at 6 months old (click for larger)
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| Donor Ewes The donor ewes were sourced from the Blackdale stud in New Zealand. Blackdale is one of the largest Texel studs in the country. The selection criteria for senior donor ewes was that they had to have lambed at 12 months of age and consistently produced twins thereafter. | |||||||||||||
| Catalogue of Texel Ram Lambs for Sale. All weights and scanning results are official, supervised records on the Ontario Sheep Flock Improvement Program. The Ultrasound Backfat scanning is done at the third lumbar vertebrae (base of the last rib). Our entire flock is vet-certified free of Maedi Visna, Johnes Disease, Caseous Lymphadenitis, Infectious Foot Rot and Enzootic Abortion. Please refer to OSHP page for more information on health testing. (Click on all sale photos for a larger picture.) | |||||||||||||
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Date of Birth: February 11, 2002 Sire: Blackdale 201/99 Dam: Gleniffer B511/92 Born As: twin Raised As: twin 50 day adjusted weight: 37 lbs 100 day adjusted weight: 69 lbs 100 day adjusted Loin Depth: 28.2 mm | 
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Date of Birth: February 12, 2002 Sire: Meba A11/95 Dam: Blackdale A398/95 Born As: triplet Raised As: twin 50 day adjusted weight: 36 lbs 100 day adjusted weight: 74 lbs 100 day adjusted Loin Depth: 29.1 mm He is a full brother to the highest growth index lamb. His full sister has been exported to the Ukraine. | 
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Date of Birth: February 12, 2002 Sire: Blackdale 201/99 Dam: Blackdale A55/96 Born As: twin Raised As: twin 50 day adjusted weight: 42 lbs 100 day adjusted weight: 78 lbs 100 day adjusted Loin Depth: 29 mm | 
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Date of Birth: February 13, 2002 Sire: Meba A11/95 Dam: Blackdale A400/97 Born As: twin Raised As: twin 50 day adjusted weight: 52 lbs 100 day adjusted weight: 85 lbs 100 day adjusted Loin Depth: 29.5 mm | 
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Date of Birth: February 14, 2002 Sire: Blackdale 15/99 Dam: Blackdale A519/96 Born As: twin Raised As: twin 50 day adjusted weight: 34 lbs 100 day adjusted weight: 68 lbs 100 day adjusted Loin Depth: 24.2 mm He is a full brother to the best muscled ram lamb retained from this crop. His full sister has been exported to the Ukraine. | 
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Date of Birth: February 14, 2002 Sire: Blackdale 201/99 Dam: Blackdale A21/96 Born As: twin Raised As: single 50 day adjusted weight: 45 lbs 100 day adjusted weight: 71 lbs 100 day adjusted Loin Depth: 28.6 mm | 
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Date of Birth: February 15, 2002 Sire: Blackdale 201/99 Dam: Blackdale A15/93 Born As: triplet Raised As: twin 50 day adjusted weight: 51 lbs 100 day adjusted weight: 83 lbs 100 day adjusted Loin Depth: 25.8 mm A full brother has been exported to the Ukraine. | 
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Date of Birth: February 15, 2002 Sire: Blackdale A228/97 Dam: Blackdale A324/97 Born As: single Raised As: single 50 day adjusted weight: 56 lbs 100 day adjusted weight: 95 lbs 100 day adjusted Loin Depth: 28.6 mm | 
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Date of Birth: February 16, 2002 Sire: Blackdale 201/99 Dam: Blackdale A15/93 Born As: triplet Raised As: twin 50 day adjusted weight: 45 lbs 100 day adjusted weight: 69 lbs 100 day adjusted Loin Depth: 22.1 mm A full brother has been exported to the Ukraine. | 
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Date of Birth: February 16, 2002 Sire: Blackdale 201/99 Dam: Blackdale A15/93 Born As: triplet Raised As: twin 50 day adjusted weight: 39 lbs 100 day adjusted weight: 73 lbs 100 day adjusted Loin Depth: 26.1 mm A full brother has been exported to the Ukraine. | 
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Date of Birth: February 17, 2002 Sire: Blackdale A228/97 Dam: Blackdale A238/94 Born As: triplet Raised As: twin 50 day adjusted weight: 50 lbs 100 day adjusted weight: 84 lbs 100 day adjusted Loin Depth: 28.2 mm | 
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Date of Birth: February 18, 2002 Sire: Blackdale 15/99 Dam: Blackdale A519/96 Born As: triplet Raised As: triplet 50 day adjusted weight: 57 lbs 100 day adjusted weight: 89 lbs 100 day adjusted Loin Depth: 26.9 mm He is full brother to the best muscled ram lamb retained from this crop. His full sister has been exported to the Ukraine. | 
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| From the British Texel Sheep Society webpage: | |||||||||||||
| The Texel has primarily been developed as a meat breed but its native environment has endowed it with invaluable commercial traits. The Texel ewe is hardy and exceptionally thrifty and her lambs have a tremendous get-up-and-go attitude, searching hard for milk as soon as they are born. Again, the breed's harsh native environment has led to the development of a sheep that thrives on poor pastures and requires only modest amounts of feed in the run-up to lambing and whilst suckling. The Breed is well known in Europe and in the continents of Africa and South America as a provider of a high quality carcass which has a high killing out percentage. It is also well known in many countries as a breed which transmits its qualities to its progeny when used for crossing purposes. | |||||||||||||
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