J & M Farm, White River Junction, VT

Ben is a handsome 2 horned ram.  He has all the markings and a nice set to his horns.  His fleece is quite soft and open with medium staple.  He will inherit part of the flock next year.

This handsome fellow will be joining JM Farm Panterra's Benjamin for the fall 2011 breeding season.  He was purchased from Ivy Brook Farm to breed the ewes that Benjamin should not breed. He was shown in the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, and not only placed first in his class, but also won Reserve Champion ram for the breed!!  We are expecting good things from this guy.

Benjamin was originally slated to be sold, but after looking at him again when we brought him home from summer pasturage, we fell in love with his markings.  He is currently in with the ewes that are not related to him.  We are hoping his father left a few ewes for him. Benjamin will also breed part of the ewes in 2011.

Panterra was purchased as a ram lamb from Southwind Farms in June of 2009.  He bred half the ewes in the fall of 2009 and produced 2 beautiful ewes, JM Farm Abigail & JM Farm Elizabeth, and 2 rams, including the herdsire, JM Farm Benjamin.  Panterra produced such nice lambs that we decided to use him as the primary herdsire in 2010, giving him the opportunity to breed all the ewes, but his daughters.  He was sold in October 2010 to another breeder.

Pepito was purchased as a ram lamb from Southwind Farms in June 2009.  He was bred to half of the ewes in the fall of 2009.  He produced 2 ewes, JM Farm Jamisen and JM Farm Delilah, and 3 rams.  We were a little disappointed in the markings of his lambs (3 had marginal markings--missing facial markings, too little color), so we sold him without offering him anymore ewes.

Lucky was purchased as a bottle lamb from Fine Fettle Farm in 2006.  He had a massive set of 4 horns and beautiful markings.  He is unregistered because we never got around to it before he left.  He bred part of the ewes in the fall of 2006 and gave us 1 ewe lamb, JM Farm Bethany and a few rams.  He bred all the ewes in 2007. The 2008 lamb crop was very disappointing, we only had 2 registrable lambs in the bunch, JM Magdelene and JM Samuel, the others had various disqualifying traits (split eye deformity, missing markings, scurs instead of horns). We learned in 2010 that the deformities were due to inbreeding, we had unknowingly purchased half-siblings. We sold him and kept  Samuel to breed some of the ewes, except he didn't breed any of them.

Abraham was purchased as a bottle lamb from Fine Fettle Farm in 2005.  He had a very mild disposition.  He gave us some nice lambs, including JM Farm Naomi and JM Farm Joanna.  He also has several granddaughters and  great-granddaughters in the flock. He left before we started to register the Jacobs.