20525 N. 1800th Rd
Bushnell, IL 61422
phone: (309) 772-3946
email: pauls@Bushnell.net
website: hampshiremeatsheep.com
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| Flock history |
| Stud Rams |
| Select brood ewes |
| Current flock pictures |
Our Top 10 Stud Ram Criteria:
1) Sound on all feet and legs
2) Medium to heavy bone
3) Straight, wide, flat "Hampshire" top
4) Chest capacity and body that will be around for many years
5) Hardy - must live and get fat on grass
6) Hampshire breed type
Notice that height does not make my top ten. In my opinion height doesn't do anything for you if you sacrifice the above items in order to obtain it!
7) Produce offspring capable of weighting greater than 100 pounds at 90 days of age.
8) Meat Production - Produce offspring with low backfat, large ribeye area and a good leg of lamb. We will scan all of our ram lambs and keeper ewe lambs for backfat and ribeye area this year. Our intent is to use the same company that Western Illinois University uses for their Ram Test data. This will give us good comparative data to other Hampshire breeders as well as other breeds.
9) Scrotal Circumference - I like to see at least 32 cm on a 150 pound ram lamb.
10) Prefer twin or triplet birth
Exposed to 26 ewes
for Jan. / Feb. lambing
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Hubbard Roselawn 1319 TW
Born 1/22/03 as a twin
Weights 340 at the time of this photo (summer 2005).
Purchased privately from Hubbard Roselawn Hampshires in June, 2004.
We used him last year on about 20 ewes with great success. He is by far the best all around stud ram that we have ever owned!
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We had 4 rams sired by Hubbard 1319 in the 2005 Western Illinois University ram test.
The 4 at 63 days into the test averaged:
Weight: 160 pounds
Average Daily Gain: 1.28 pounds per day
Feed to LB. of Gain: 3.74 pounds of feed
Adj. Backfat to 150 lbs.: .20 inches
Adj. Ribeye Area to 150 lbs.: 4.27 square in.
Exposed to 10 ewes
for Jan. / Feb. lambing
Exposed to 15 ewes
for Jan. , Feb. and Mar.
lambing
Exposed to 8 of the ewes that we purchased from Hubbard Roselawn Hampshires for Jan. / Feb. lambing.
Houghton 2192 TW |
Born 2/21/02 as a twin Weights 330 pounds at the time of this photo in summer 2005. Purchased privately from Jr. Houghton in the summer of 2002 as a lamb.
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Hubbard Roselawn 4013 TW
Born 1/2/04 as a twin
Weights 315 pounds at the time of this photo in summer 2005.
Purchased at the 2004 Midwest Stud Ram Sale from Hubbard Roselawn Hampshires .
Hubbard Roselawn 3-1340 SG
"Rambling Rose"
Born 2/28/03 as a twin
Weights 320 pounds at the time this photo was taken in the fall of 2005.
Purchased privately along with 33 select mature brood ewes from Hubbard Roselawn Hampshires in the fall of 2005.
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Hubbard 3-1340 or "Rambling Rose" as Chauncey Hubbard named him is the tallest of our rams. He has good eye appeal with his long clean straight top. Notice that he has the same sire MacCarthy 0127 as our lead stud ram Hubbard 1319. We plan to use Rambling Rose on 20+ ewes for 2007 lambs. |
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