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2010 Sires
"Shooter"
(Miller 355)
Rumor x Buckmaster
Shooter is a linebred Jim Miller Hampshire ram leased from T.J. and Randy Cox of
Ohio. Randy got him bought out of Millers keeper pen in 2006.
This picture taken with a cell phone while in the breeding field shows him as
natural as one can get. His structure and bone mass coupled with his
correctness and ease of movement make him captivating to observe. He is
tremendously wide based, really round ribbed and transitions that into the most
expansive rack, loin and hip we have ever used in a stud ram. It's not
often you find a ram with this much power and substance, and yet so neat in his
chest floor and youthful in his shoulder and neck set. We think he is
truly unique and have bred him to several Digital, Casanova, Juice and Benchmark
females for 2010 lambs.
  
"Casanova" Goodwin G-349
RR/NN
Digital X
Cabaniss 86 daughter.
Casanova has been a favorite since he
hit the ground in 2006. He's sired many winners for us and throws them with that
cool look, up-fronted, tight shouldered with a really big rack and hip loin
junction. His lambs measure great, are good on their feet and legs and move out
really well in the showring.
   
"Juice" (W381)
Sired by "Shocker" and out of a "Digital" daughter. Talk about cool
wethers!!! Juice worked on every piece of genetics we bred him to.
He combines our white tag line (Shocker, HyVoltage) and the "Digital" line in an
amazing package. He is super correct with great rib shape and muscle
pattern, great hipped while maintaining that naturally hard touch. We are
keeping three white ram lambs out of "Juice" and "Digital" daughters to use this
fall. One of them is out of a full sister to "Casanova". We'll have
pictures of them later. They are truly the right kind. "Juice" will
see lots of "Digital" daughters this fall.
"P-457"
(Digital x 125-Benchmark)
Our keeper Digital son from 2008. He's the biggest hipped Digital we've
raised. Loads of correctly made power from a ewe family that always throws
them that way.
"Y-30"
(As-Is x Juice's Grandmother)
Here's a wooly legged buck with a great design, really wide and level hip set
and lots of muscle expression. He's the reason we let "As-Is" go. We
have great confidence in his ability to sire great ones. Backed by a super
female line.
Reference Sires
 
"New Trend"
Trendsetter x Uno
1/2 interest sold the Ray Pell Show Lambs, Choteau, Oklahoma
We were able
to acquire this 5 year old Overman ram this year from the Burns family and are
really excited about the possibilities he offers. If you recall the old
"Trendsetter" ram that Overman owned, you'll remember some of the great ones
he produced. The fact that "New Trend has the "Stopwatch" genetics on the
maternal side is a plus for us as well.
New Trend is
the ram that Mark kept to replace Trendsetter and Burns got him bought as a 3
year old while we waited patiently to get him this year. Mark and J.R.
both tell me he will throw them with huge racks and loins, lots of shape and
expression of muscle, great rib shape and dead level hipped while being extra
cool on the move.
We've bred
him to a really good set of Digital, Juice and Benchmark ewes.
These
pictures were taken 1, as a ram lamb and 2, as a mature ram. Even as a 5 year
old he is neat to watch in motion. We have him bred to 25 ewes for early
February lambs and 20 for March 2010. We anxiously await their arrival.
We call him "The Heat".
He
is sired by "Torch" and out of a "2000" daughter (mother of Johnny Cash also)
"The Heat" is a very wide based, big
boned Suffolk ram with the added dimension of hip, lower leg, rack and loin
seldom found in a ram of any breed with this much true shape, correctness of
structure and look. His pin set is tremendous while on the opposite end, his
chest floor is very neat and ties in high complimenting his uniform and smooth
shoulder set.
We'd like to thank Hindman Club Lambs
for parting with him, as he was to be one of their keeper bucks, and look
forward to seeing his influence of our ewe base.
1/2 Interest in "The Heat" has sold
to Bowers Club Lambs, Centerville, Indiana.
Thank You Dave, Kraig and Steva!
 
"Digital" at 13 months (RR-NN)
We appreciate Craig and Lori Scott of CLS Club Lambs selling us this tremendous ram. We found him at a few weeks old and knew he had to be
our next step. "Digital" was born April 1, 2004 and is a double-bred
"Ceasar" ram (half-brother x half-sister mating). His sire, "Digits", is
sired by "Ceasar" and out of a "Trademark" daughter. The fact that this
ram lines up the "Ceasar" breeding coupled with the shot of "Trademark" on his
sire's side makes him an ideal genetic combination to use on our "Benchmark"
daughters. (Benchmark is a Trademark son from Clay Elliott that we used
previously and retained several females out of. They are tremendous brood
ewes.)
Getting a young ram to be
fertile early enough in the breeding season can be a problem, but not for
"Digital". He was an April 1st lamb, and we started getting lambs out of
him in the middle of January. "Digital has exceeded our expectations and
worked extremely well on all of our ewe base, Hamps as well as Suffolks.
His lambs are structurally correct, well balanced, and loaded with muscle.
Customers have described them as "having a cat-like walk full of style and
muscle".
"As-Is"
Ultra x Miller
We bought this "Ultra" son as a lamb from Dave Wittaker with the goal of
raising a ram lamb out of our ewe base to continue on with. We were
able to do that with what some say may be the best sheep we've ever
raised. He's cool, correct and has a super hip and muscle pattern to
him. Watch for pictures of him later. Thank you to Mark Wallen
of Texas for purchasing 1/2 interest in "As Is".
"Hy Voltage"
Reference Sire
QR-NN
Little Mo x Primetime daughter
Sire of many of our 2004 & 2005 lambs
Unfortunately we lost this tremendous stud buck this fall but contact Rick
Roberts in KS for early lambs out of HyVoltage. Rick has purchased several
brood ewes from us the last few years and will have a really good set of lambs
out of both Hy Voltage and Y-518 (Hondo x Smokey) for your inspection in 2006.
 
"Shocker"
Sired by Hy Voltage
Used heavily in place of Hy Voltage. We think he offers even more
dimension and continues that rock hard touch that his sire is known for.
One-half interest in "Shocker" sold to CLS Club Lambs of Ransom, KS after they
came down and saw the job he is doing on Digital daughters. Watch for the
pictures of the ram lamb we kept and will be using out of Shocker and a great
Digital daughter.
Benchmark
(Trademark x Broker) - Reference Sire
The ram so many have inquired about! Benchmark is a Hampshire ram from
Clay Elliott and Jared Allred of Texas and Utah. He is tightly
linebred, being out of their "Trademark" ram and a top
"Broker" daughter, both of which are out of Hancock's
"31" ram and top "411" daughters themselves.
He was their keeper ram from the 2001 lamb crop. Benchmark's
nickname is "Wedgy", because of his design! Tremendously wide
hipped and chisel fronted with that extra "cool" look about him. He is an
absolutely fascinating ram. "Benchmark" daughters have made tremendous
producing ewes.
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