November 8, 2008
Our newest tank of semen came in just this morning. The newest polled sires this year are: Mokollur, Falur, Eldur, Kongsson, Orvar, Svanur, and Olli. For the first time, we are breaking up our AI Sire page into horned, polled and leader for ease of use.
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AEGIR - 01916
Aegir is polled white, homozygous for white pattern. He is a grandson of AI sire Hnykill, 97-095. Aegir has a really impressive overall score of 85.5, with neck and shoulders at 8.5, chest 8.5, back 8.5, rump 9.0, leg a very good score of 18.0, and wool also wonderful at 9.0! His BLUP meat scores are 129 for leanness, 114 for muscling and a composite meat score of 123 - wow!! With these wonderful scores, it will be well worth the wait of a generation or two to get back to color. The average lamb scores for Aegir's last year are: chest 8.3, back 8.3, rump 8.4, leg 17.0, wool 8.1, and total 82.3. Aegir is now dead. We had a wonderful set of Aegir twins in 2006 with our Buri daughter BLW-465M, 909S and 910S.
Here is 909S his first summer.
Nice chest!
ALADIN - 00-917.
Aladin is a spotted, mouflon black ram listed as polled, carrying the moorit color. Aladin's overall score is 79.0 with neck and shoulders 8.5, chest 8.5, back 7.5, rump 7.5, leg 16.5 and wool 7.0 (Note that colored rams in Iceland do not get a higher wool score than 7.0) We had a wonderful set of Aladin twins spring 2006 with our Eir daughter, BLW-195L. According to Southram's BLUP figures, Aladin lambs tend to fat with a leanness quotient of 88/100, but with muscling at 113, it brings the carcass quality index to 98. Aladin's daughters are poor milkers with a score of 81/100 but score 101 for fertility. We have no more Aladin straws.
ARFI - 99-873
is polled white, carrying solid, moorit and spotting. He is in such demand in Iceland that his straws are no longer available to the North American market, and from his lambs that we have had here, I can see why. Arfi has a total conformation score of 84.5 with an outstanding 9.0 on chest, back and rump. His wool score is 8.0 and his scrapie status is neutral. His daughters are proving to be excellent mothers with a prolificacy of +16 and mothering score of 119 out of 100. Last year we had a very good set of ram lambs from Arfi with out Buri daughter, 465M, and one of them took Grand Champion ram at the 2005 Icelandic National show at Rhinebeck, New York. His half-brother 800R took Reserve Champion as well, so we were thrilled when we got a moorit-gray Arfi daughter, 908S who has joined our ewe flock. Arfi lambs are very lean with a score of 118/100 and well muscled at 107, giving a carcass index of 114. The daughter are milky, scoring 104, and fertile, scoring 107. All good! Here are two Arfisons at 5 months. The black on the left is a twin, the white on the right is a single.
We also have 908S, shown here as a sheared yearling.
908S gave us a set of ewe lamb twins, neither of whom have yet needed worming!
Ás - 04-813
A homozygous, white polled ram. He is a son of Snoddi, and a grandson
of both Sveppur and Dalur. Great lines! He is said to produce
oustanding lambs with an average dressing weight of 17 kg. Their BLUP
scores are outstanding with 118/100 for leanness, 111 for muscling, and a
carcass index of 115. His daughters have excellent scores as well,
with 104 for fertility and 120 for milkiness. Wow! We have
ordered straws from Ás for fall of 2009 and certainly hope that his straws
will be available. If so, look for his lambs spring of 2010.
BASSI - 95821. Bassi is "a jewel"*. Polled, white, and long bodied with a "thick and well shaped eye muscle, exceptionally muscular legs and beautiful wool." He is a new AI sire and so there are few progeny results. It is hoped that he will pass on his body conformation, in which case he will bring pro
gress into sheep breeding. We were very pleased with the build on our Bassi triplets born to STS-63B. Conformation is good, and the lambs are very fleecy. There are no more straws available. Bassi's lambs score well for carcass with 101 for leanness, 103 for muscling, and a carcass index of 102. His daughters have very poor scores however, with 90/100 for milkiness and 96 for fertility.
BURI - 94806. Buri is
polled, white and long bodied. He is short legged, with a very muscular back, loins
and leg. He has pure white wool, of above average quantity, and a medium coarse
tog. Buri is described as carrying the gray pattern in the stud catalogue, but
he
turned out to carry solid pattern. Buri's daughters look promising
in Iceland with good milking abilities. Our Buri triplets were great;
a stocky build, good growth rate, and all around solid aspect.
Buri's lamb tend to the fat with a leanness score of 89/100. They are
well muscled, scoring 107, giving a carcass index of 96. The daughters
grade well with milky and fertility scores of 104/100. Our Buri
daughter "Flash" BLW-465M, has been a star in our ewe flock, and has
consistently given us outstanding lambs, including our Grand Champion
Preston, 801R.
This is Flash as an adult ewe.
Bogi, 04-814. A homozygous white, polled ram.
Wow! Look at the build on
this boy! And it is reflected in the BLUP scores for his lambs,
leanness 137, muscling 120, and a carcass quality index of 130.
Remember that these scores are based on an average of 100! Needless to
say, we have ordered straws from Bogi that hopefully will come in fall of
2009 for 2010 lambs. He is an Erpur son, and his daughters have BLUP
scores of 106 for fertility and 107 for milkiness. Very promising!
His fleece is described as being average in quantity with a thick and even
thel. His lambs are heavy with an average dressing weight of 16.8 kg.
Dalur
White
polled ram, 97-838. Dalur was homozygous white with a scrapie
inheritance of neutral. His conformation total was 82.5 with an 8.5
for back, rump and wool. With daughter scores of +21 prolificacy and
125 for overall mothering, we were thrilled to see that Dalur has a new son
standing at stud now, Fengur, 02-973. We also have some lines
from his previous son, Langidalur, 01-931.
Our Dalur
daughter BLW-608N has a particularly good leg and a very lustrous fleece.
Her lambs are always great, and one of her daughters, 821R, is one of our
rising stars. Dalur might be our favorite polled ram to date, and when
you see his BLUP scores for his lambs, the reason is clear. Leanness
comes in at 126, and muscling at 106, giving a carcass quality index of 118.
The BLUP's for his daughters are outstanding at 118 for milkiness, and 108
for fertility. We are doing some linebreeding with Dalur to hang on to
his genetic influence, and if we could buy more Dalur straws we would!
(l to r) Our Dalur daughter 608N in full milk, 821R a Dalur granddaughter as a young adult, 117T and 118T, triplet granddaughters of Dalur, and SRX-58M a Dalur daughter from Susan Brigg's farm.
DIMON - 01-932
Dimon is a polled white ram, who is
homozygous for the white pattern. Imported this fall, Dimon has
amazing wool scores, 8.5 as a lamb in 2001 and 9.0 as a yearling in 2002.
Wonderful to have a wool score improve with age! He has a strong
lineage with Eir, 96-840 as his sire, and Skreppur, 92-991 as his maternal
grandsire. Both evaluation years totaled at 81.5. Dimon
does not yet have reported results on his daughters. Dimon has
excellent BLUP scores of 124 for carcass grading and 132 for leanness, one
of the highest indexes in Iceland according to the statistics at
Southram.
EIR - 96840. Polled, white, born 1996. Eir is expected to be an outstanding breeding sire. He is extremely muscular with a great conformation. His loin is long and broad, and his legs are very well shaped with a thick muscle that completely closes the crotch. His wool is soft and lustrous, medium quantity, with a fine and curly tog. His daughters are exceptionally prolific. We used Eir resulting in a set of triplets in 2001 and daughter BLW-195L consistently gives us lambs that are blocky, well grown with an ocean of fleece. No more straws available.
ELDUR - 03-981
ERPUR - 01-919
Erpur is a polled white ram, born 2001. He has an amazing
daughter score of +87! He is described as heterozygous for pattern and
carrying moorit. Erpur has an overall score of 82.0, with neck and
shoulders at 8.0, chest 8.5, back 8.0, rump 8.5, leg 16.5, wool 8.0 and
overall harmony of 8.5. He also has an outstanding leanness score of
130 when average is 100! Erpur does not yet have any progeny testing
results.
FALUR: 03-980 
Flekkur: #89965.
Flekkur was born to an eight-year old mother who eventually reached the age of ten, with a lifetime lambing rate of 200%. He is clear polled and is a spotted solid black. He has a powerful head, thick neck and well muscled shoulders. Chest and back are broad, with good springiness in the ribs. Loin is well muscled and the leg muscle is deep and well developed. Feet are strong and well placed. He is long bodied, short legged with a very powerful rear body. Flekkur's pen of lambs were graded, and scored the top of the five rams evaluated that year. Flekkur is described as an improvement breeding ram with high points for lambs and daughters graded. We have been really pleased with Flekkur's lambs; his daughters are prolific and are wonderful mothers, and the fleeces are both heavy and soft, PLUS the builds are square and deep. We really treasure our Flekkur lines! Very sadly, no more straws available.
Glaesir - 98-876
Glaesir is a polled white ram, born 1998. He is a son of AI sire
Hnykill and is heterozygous for pattern and carries the moorit color.
A very nice total score of 84.5, with neck and shoulders at 8.5, chest 8.5,
back 8.0, rump 9.0, leg an unusually high score of 18.5, wool 8.0 and
overall harmony at 8.0. He has neutral reports on his daughters.
Glaesir scored well on progeny testing, particularly so for leanness and
leg.
Heli: #93-805.
was born is 1993 and is a polled black
ram, carrying moorit and spotting. He was
evaluated in 1994
Hnokki, 00-918, a polled white ram born in 2000.
Our Hnokki daughter 137T
lamb fleece - Really extraordinary fleece. Beautiful sheen, long locks, downy and fine. Tog reaches 10", thel to 3". 2# 13 oz. 137T has had top scores this summer and has not needed to be wormed. Her twins are doing very well during parasite season as well, even though twins born to yearlings are usually very vulnerable. Wow!!
HNYKILL - 95820.
Hnykill is white, polled and carries mouflon and spotting. He has extremely good conformation with muscular shoulders, back and loins, and a well-shaped, deep leg. His wool has a quantity less than average, but the thel is dense and the tog is short. Both his mother and his daughters are prolific with good milking abilities. We had seven Hnykill lambs spring of 2001, three sets of twins, and a single, three of whom are spotted mouflons! There is heavy phaenomelanin frosting, particularly in the faces of the lambs. They are all well-built, and growing fast. These are very good looking lambs. There has been controversy that perhaps the Hnykill mouflons actually have the single gene gray/mouflon, but sadly, Southram confirms that that is not so. But they clearly represent a variant of the mouflon pattern as they are consistently frosted with gold at birth. No more straws available.
HORVI - 99-856 A white, polled ram born 1999. Horvi's total conformation score is an impressive 85.0, with individual scores of: neck and shoulders 8.5, chest 9.0, back 8.50, rump 9.0, leg 17.5 wool a wonderful 8.5 and overall harmony of 8.0. He has a positive daughter score of +5. Horvi looks to be homozygous white. So far we have had one set of Horvi twins, ram and ewe, and both had good, short-legged square conformations. Their calm dispositions are a plus.
KONGSSON - 04-982
KOSTUR - 98895
A polled white ram, born 1998. Kostur carries solid and moorit, and
possibly spotting; his daughter score is an impressive +25.
Kostur's total conformation score is 82.0, with individual scores of head
8.0, neck and shoulders 8.0, chest 8.5, back 8.5, rump 8.0, leg 17.0, wool
8.0, feet 8.0 and an overall symmetry score of 8.0. Kostur
appears to be unrelated to many of our AI rams. We had a
wonderful set of twins from Kostur spring of 2005. The ram is a
completely polled white, and the ewe is a strongly horned moorit. She
had twins as a yearling this year and has done an outstanding job!
LANGIDALUR - 01-931
Langidalur is a polled white ram born in 2001 and carries solid pattern and
moorit color. He is the son of AI
sire Dalur, 97-838 from whom this farm has gotten such wonderful lambs.
Langidalur again has a great overall score of 85.5, with neck and shoulders
grading 8.5, chest 8.5, back 8.5, rump 9.0, leg 18.0, wool 8.5, overall
harmony at 8.5. His lambs
should bring rapid improvement to a flock. Their average scores for
2006 are: chest 8.3, back 8.2, rump 8.4, leg 17.0, wool 8.1, total
82.2. Langidalur's BLUP for leanness is 114, muscling 104 and
composite meat score is 110. We had a set of twins this
spring with Langidalur with a polled ewe, both horned, so his background for
horns must be mixed. We have imported more straws for Langidalur and
will be using him this fall.
Southram reports that his mother is a superb milker, and that his
scrapie inheritance is neutral. Langidalur is now dead.
MOKOLLUR - 03-978
ORMUR - 02-933
Ormur is a polled, white ram born 2002, with an amazing overall score of 85.5! He scored 8.5 for neck and shoulder, 8.5 chest, 8.5 back, 9.0 for rump, 17.5 leg and a rare and wonderful 9.0 for wool, plus an overall harmony of 8.5. And on top of all this, he is heterozygous for pattern carrying solid, moorit and spotting. Southram reports that his offspring are grading very, very well for leanness with very thick eye muscle and good maturity. Fleece is very good, thick and lustrous, and scrapie inheritance is neutral. Ormur's most recent average lamb scores are: chest 8.2, back 8.2, rump 8.4, leg 16.9, wool 8.1, symmetry 8.2, totaling 82.0. Ormur's BLUP meat scores are, leanness 134 (!!!) muscling 93 for a composite score of 118. His daughter scores are milkiness 114 and fertility 98. We have has some wonderful Ormur lambs!
Shown below are 101T, 102T, 116T, 117T, 188T and 119T.
101T 102T 116T "Clover" 117T and 118T 118T 119T
twinned as a twinned as a outstanding yearling outstanding yearling
yearling yearling mother
The Ormur lambs for 2008 are so jazzy! The dam is
a moorit gray, and we got this amazing set of twins, 239U and 240U.
They are shown here at about two months old.
Here is 239 as a shorn, fall lamb.
ORVAR - 04-983
Skjanni: #92968, born in 1992 to a mother with a lambing rate of 200%. He is polled and pure white with lots of good wool. A broad, handsome head and muscular shoulders. Ribs are fairly springy, the back is broad and well muscled. Loin is muscular, although fairly short. Leg muscles very good, feet straight and strong. A ram with a long, powerful body and lots of wool. His lambs placed second the year they were graded. His daughters are said to be strong in prolificacy and milking ability, scoring 109 for 16 production years of daughters. We had one set of triplets from Skjanni in 1999 that have done very well. The ewe, Claire, BLW-202J was one of the largest yearling ewes and she has proven to be a consistent twinner and effective mother. Claire in turn has added some wonderful daughters to the ewe flock. We have no more straws available.
Skreppur: #92991, born 1992. Skreppur is polled, pure white, with a short and powerful head and well filled shoulders. Loin and legs are particularly well muscled. Skreppur is a fine and elegant sheep in every respect. He gets 99 in grade for 88 lambs, and 103 for 11 production years of daughters. An advantage of Skreppur's lambs is low fat deposits. We had one set of twins from Skreppur in 1999, a ewe and a ram. They both are very large, well built and stocky, with a bold appearance. The ewe, 208J was one of the largest yearling ewes. She raised a nice ram lamb last year, and this year was AI'ed, giving us a stocky pair of twins with Hnykill. Last year we had a set of ewe/ram twins from Skreppur and BLW-149H, and the ewe lamb did well at lambing time. The ram was sold as a polled breeding ram where he is doing very well. There are no more straws available.
SNODDI 99-896
Snoddi is a polled
white ram, born 1999 and he has been in the catalogue for several years now,
always a good sign. He has great scores, head 8.0, neck and shoulders
8.5, chest 8.5, back 8.5, rump 8.5, leg 18.0 (!!!) wool 8.5, feet 8.0
and symmetry, 8.0, for a total of 84.5. He is the son of AI sire
Sveppur, and also has Skreppur in his lineage. His daughter score are
good at +5 for fertility and 104 for milkiness. Snoddi is homozygous
for white.
Solon: #93-977, born 1993, Solon is white and polled, with small black speckles on his head. He was evaluated in 1994 and was given a score of 83.5 points. Solon has a short, broad head, with a broad neck and muscular shoulders. Chest is deep, the back is strong and broad and overall conformation is good. Legs and loins are particularly thick and muscular, and the feet are correct. Solon is described as "woolish". We had a pair of Solon twins during the 2000 lambing season, and they are very handsome.
Solon: 01-889, born 2001.
Solon is a white, polled ram, homozygous for the white pattern. His 2001 evaluation as a lamb netted him a total of 84.5 points, and his re-evaluation in 2002, 83 points. Both years Solon graded an 8.5 on his wool. and 9.0 on his rump, plus the wonderful leg scores of 18.0 and 17.5. Solon has two wonderful AI sires in his lineage, Hnykill as his great-grandfather and Dalur as his mother's father. Solon's average lamb scores in 2005, the most recent records for him, are: cheset 8.3, back 8.0, rump 8.4, leg 17.0, wool 8.3, symmetry 8.1 and total 81.6. His BLUP scores are very consistent, 119 all the way through for leanness, muscling and composite. His daughters score just below average at -3 fertility and 97 index. Solon is now dead.
SVEPPUR - 94807. Sveppur is white and polled, and his ultrasound shows an astoundingly large eye muscle thickness. His conformation is good with broad shoulders and loin, and muscular legs. He has a "great quantity"* of wool with "thick thel and medium coarse tog". His daughters graded very high on prolificacy, with good milking abilities. We used Sveppur on particularly milky ewes and now have a set of triplets and a huge single. Both ewes have thel-rich fleeces as well, and we have been pleased with the lambs' fleece. Sveppur's polled genes appear to be strong as all four lambs, including the ram lambs, are well-polled. These lambs are particularly graceful and attractive. We have used the Sveppur triplet son BLW-329L for breeding this past fall.
Thokki - 01-878.
A white polled ram born 2001, Thokki is immediately noticed for his immense quantity of shiny, white fleece, and indeed his wool score is an amazing 9.0. Thokki has an overall score of 83.5 with neck and shoulders at 8.5, chest 8.0, back 8.5, rump 8.5, leg 17.0 and overall harmony at 8.0. He is heterozygous for pattern and carries spotting and moorit. Our Thokki twins from 2006 have very, very thick fleeces, and impressive size. Our Thokki son 920S was breeding for us this past fall. Southram reports that Thokki has a superb progeny test score of 146; his lambs have a very thick eye muscle. His scrapie inheritance is neutral. Thokki's most recent lamb statistics are from 2005, and they are as follows: chest 8.4, back 8.3, rump 8.4, leg 17.0, wool 8.2, symmetry 8.1, total 82.3. Thokki's BLUP meat scores are 112 right through, fat, muscling and composite score. His daughters score well at fertility +10, index 108 with 141 daughter years reporting. Thokki has tended to throw some horns and scurs as you can see in our Thokkison 920S below. Thokki died in 2006 and we have no more straws available.
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