Prairie Rose Suffolks

02/02/2026

The Boss, otherwise known to her friends and family as “Opal”, Prairie Rose 1702, has entered the drop pen in the barn. These type of ewes are worth their weight in gold. She’s a large capacity, dimensional, long lived, productive female that has earned her status and our admiration here on the ranch. She pops out top end lambs every time she lambs, has a 200% lambing and weaning rate and earns a living on grass from spring until fall when the snow flies. She is also the dam to “Hickok”, one of our stud rams. Oh, and did we mention that she is 9 years old? We think this grand ol’ dam looks pretty good for being 9 years old. And by the looks of it, she’s got another set of multiple lambs on the way. Will it be twins or triplets? Stay tuned.

01/25/2026

Woo-hoo!!! The lamb cam is up and running again and the 1st bunch of the 2026 lambing ewes due at any time are on deck. More ewes will find their way to the barn soon. Let the games begin ...

01/24/2026

When we match stud bucks up with ewes for breeding, much thought and intention goes into each pairing. Many factors, both intrinsic and extrinsic, are considered before the final decisions are put down on paper and then put into play. Barn and progeny records are useful in making the final decisions. We matched this stud, ""Hickok RR", our own ranch raised stud, up with some of our top ewes last fall. He was sired by the Dombek stud, "Cogburn" who put some outstanding ewes back into the flock for us. His dam, "Opal", has definitely left her mark in the flock. She's currently 9 years old and has maintained her body condition and vigor well over the years. She is the current flock matriarch. She has a 200% lambing and weaning rate and puts lambs on the ground that are always in the top end. She is bred to Western Underground, for February 2nd lambs.
Hickok's lambs will be the first lambs on the ground here and are due in the next couple of days. We're looking forward to seeing the lambs out of this guy.

01/20/2026

What better way to start the lambing season off than with the Northern Lights dancing overhead? The Lamb Cam will be turned on soon after we fix the glitch. Stay tuned, stay warm & may your barn be dry and filled with great lambs and good mama ewes.

12/21/2025

Merry Christmas from some of the lads! 🎄🎄🎄

11/27/2025

08/22/2025

You never forget your first love … “Tai”

Flashback Friday! She roamed the ranch nearly 40 years ago. She embodied the essence of what a Suffolk ewe is. Prolific, productive and impactful. She lived until she was 12 years old, raising and weaning fast growing lambs into that 12th year. She raised triplets unassisted at age 10. She had size and scale, bone, structural correctness, volume, capacity, breed character, and a docile disposition not to mention an elegance about her. She milked like a Holstein, put her all into her lambs and bounced backed in good flesh on grass after weaning. We had a farm to table business then and her lambs always graded a prime leg with LE’s in the mid to high 3’s. They were excellent at converting feed into pounds of lean, quality meat. Her lifetime lambing and weaning rate was 230%. We still have females in the flock that trace back to her. Her genetics worked for us, not the other way around. She was relevant then and still would be today. We’re pleased to still have working females in the flock decades later that go back to this grand old dam! Long live great Suffolk ewes!

07/13/2025

Shearing the ewe lambs will have to wait for awhile this summer as my better half is healing up from a medical issue, but I still couldn't help admiring this mid-February born ewe lamb while doing chores this morning. She will be in the keeper pen this fall. She's a big volumed, eye appealing young lady with a bright future in front of her. Sired by "Western Underground" of old Luxford and Prairie Rose breeding and our favorite Martiny Livestock ewe, this girl has decades of production and performance behind her. She's the twin sister to an impressive ram lamb that's at the top of the heap here. She, for sure, will look good when the wool comes off but in the meantime, she'll still catch your eye.

07/06/2025

We're pleased to be bringing a quality registered yearling stud prospect to the Idaho State Ram Sale! He's a big topped, big hipped, structurally correct ram that is as solid as it gets. He's athletic in his build and moves out quite free and easy on a good set of feet and legs. He was also one of our top gaining ram lambs at 60 and 120 day weights. He hails from some reliably long lived and outstanding older genetics including the old Luxford stud, Great Divide, a massive ram that lived until he was 10 1/2 years old and one of the best studs we've ever used. You know ... one of the ones that you wish you had back. Other notables in his pedigree include Lost River Gun Fighter (going back to Wilt breeding) and HoWi, and the old Pleasant Valley breeding that was a cornerstone for many breeders several years ago. This ram was also bred to a select group of ewes as a lamb with very good results. He is twin born and raised & is RR/NN by parentage. If you're looking for a sound, complete type of a ram, check him out at the "Suffolk Sale of the West", LOT 51, at the Twin Falls County Fairgrounds in Filer Idaho, July 11th-12th (he sells , Saturday, July 12th). Remote bidding will be available.

For more information regarding the sale, check out the Idaho Wool Growers website at idahowoolgrowers.org

07/05/2025

Countdown to sale day, Saturday, July 12th. We’re bringing a solid set of bucks to the Idaho State Ram Sale, including a registered stud prospect. More info on him will be posted here soon. Check out the Idaho Wool Growers Association website for more information regarding the sale consignments, lamb BBQ, online bidding and transportation. 🐑🐑🐑

The Idaho State Ram Sale is known as the Suffolk Sale of the West for a reason. These Suffolks highlight the exclusive genetics you can't find anywhere else.

Don't miss the action! Order your catalog for the 104th sale today: LINK IN BIO or visit https://forms.office.com/r/ymKj1pW5sm

07/04/2025

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!

HERE’S TO THE RED, WHITE AND EWE!! 🇺🇸

06/18/2025

Beautiful Suffolk Ewes. Here are a few of the ewes coming in from the lower meadow in search of shade. From yearlings to age 8, they are a consistent, dimensional, uniform group of females and members of "the Bold and the Body-ful Club" here on the ranch. High volume and capacious ewes, these ladies earn their keep and stay fleshy on seasonal meadow forbs and grasses all summer, into the fall.
No grain, no harvested feeds, just grazing "a la naturale". Traveling up and down the hill and to the far end of the meadow several times a day, they log in between 1-2 miles a day, just doing what they're meant to do and looking good while they're doing it. Commercially slick shorn 3 days prior to this video.