Stone Axe Farm
Our Flock
The ram is half the flock...
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HC6 2140 “Atlas”
At the September 2011 Texas Hill Country Show and Sale, we purchased the Reserve Champion Ram from Philip Glass and the Half Circle Six ranches. Atlas was among the embryos Philip imported from Australia in 2009. He is sired by the Australian “Maverick”. Pieter van Schalkwyk officially inspected Atlas and evaluated him a type 5, one of very few in this country!
SAF 0201 “Lothario”
Below is our home bred QR ram, photographed here at 24 months. He’s sired by the late type 5 Australian import “Robusto” and out of one of our Type 5 ewes. We’re really liking his lambs. He’s got width, depth, and length. As a bonus, he’s gentle and easy for Martha to handle. Pieter van Schalkwyk found him to be sound and correct in his structure and recommended keeping him in our program.
RF 4291 “JACK”
Now here’s the meat and shedding qualities we strive to produce.
Jack is the sire of a good many of our ewes, so he recently found a new home in South Carolina.
When Theuns Botha, the licensed Dorper inspector from South Africa, visited our farm, he said he had not seen a ram during his visit to Texas that was “Jack’s” equal in meat, length, and depth.
If the ram is half the flock, the ewe is half the lamb.
Our ewe flock is made up of both purebred and fullblood ewes we’ve purchased from proven bloodlines, as well as ewes we’ve bred up from our original seed stock. The black ewe on the home page is our oldest ewe, “Bessie”, a 3/4 Dorper 1/4 Barbado ewe that has been a great foundation ewe. We have 5 generations of ewes we’ve bred from her. Her lambs are meaty, hardy, good shedders, and great mothers.
We select our ewes for conformation, good shedding, mothering, and calm temperament. Color is the last criteria, in fact we like attractive patterns on the percentage ewes. They add interest to the flock!
These are three of our foundation ewes, all inspected by Raymond Read, of South Africa. The two on the left were type 5s, the one on the right a type 4. Their daughters and granddaughters were inspected this fall. Of the twenty-two ewes inspected, seven were type 5, ten were type 4. One of the type 5 ewes is a home bred ewe upgraded from one our our foundation 3/4 Dorper 1/4 Barbados ewes.
Pictured below are a few of our top ewes, and their April 2009 lambs to the left of each of them. The lambs were photographed at 6-8 weeks and were all sired by “Jack”.
