JAGER FARM VAI BREEDING ~ 2006

                                               Sires for 2007 AI Spring Lambs

                                                                                                          
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 Feb. 2, 2007

               Our breeding season has ended, both VAI and natural breeding.  The crosses described below are our VAI breeding; our farm breeding can be found at  Breeding rams 2006.  Remember that to purchase the F1 lambs, (those born as a direct result of AI), your flock must be enrolled in the Federal Voluntary Scrapie program.  The mandatory scrapie rules that control the movement of all small ruminants, is not the same program, so those flock numbers do not apply for the purchase of F1's.  At the time of deposit, we will confirm the flock number for your farm on the USDA website at Scrapie Flock Certification Program - Flock Status Report by State , so please check that your farm is listed there correctly.  We have occasionally found omissions on the website, but when requested, the corrections are usually made quite quickly.

We will be taking the VAI deposits a little differently this year, since we had some folks with deposits who ended up disappointed last year.  The crosses they had reserved, were sometimes also reserved for the twin and then just a single was born, or the desired cross produced only rams, or horns, or no horns, or something equally disappointing.  By this time, when looking at other choices, many of the other lambs on the wish list had already been chosen, leaving a reserved buyer without a choice AI lamb.
 
So this year the VAI reservation policies are as follows:
 
The VAI list was only released on January 1st  so that we could be fairly confident that the pregnancies are holding.  Occasionally ewes do miscarry later in the season, in which case we will take the breeding off the list.
 
We are accepting $100 deposits in order to get on the VAI reservation list; one, $100 deposit reserving the choice of one lamb.  The reservations are taken in order and allow the buyers to choose from the AI lamblist in turn.  First deposit in, gets first choice of the lamblist come spring, second deposit, gets second choice, etc.  We have deposits in on three polled lambs and two horned lambs so far, and we will update this page as winter progresses to let you know where you will be on the reservation list.  Please remember that if you make a deposit, and it turns out that you do not find a lamb on the spring list that meets your requirements, that we will promptly return your deposit at that time.

As we did last year, we will post the lambing journal throughout the lambing season to keep you up-to-date on what lambs have been born.  I will try to keep it current with photos on a daily basis, time allowing, so that you can watch the progress of your favorite crosses this way, and start to develop your list of choices.

After lambing is over, we will put together the price list and send it out to everyone who has made a reservation.  If a lamb is being kept for our flock, then he or she will not be published on this lamblist, or will appear as an "NFS".  The first buyer in line will pick their lamb, then the second buyer on the list, then the third, etc, etc.  There will the expectation of due diligence on the part of the buyers to make their picks, so please be starting to mull over your choices as the lambing journal is published.  In this way we can move down the list in a way that is fair to everyone.

 
When the reserved buyers make their choices, the balance of the one third deposits will be due at this time, and the lamblist will be published on the website.  The usual one third deposit rules will apply, that this is "earnest money" that allows us to safely list a lamb as "reserved" on the published lamblist. If a reserved buyer is not ready to make their choice at the time we publish the lamblist to the website, they can let the deposit ride and hope that their favorite lambs do not sell.
 
As always, if there is nothing that you want on the lamblist, we will refund your $100 reservation deposit when the lamblist is published to the website.  Later in the season, if the reserved lamb does not grow out well, then you can either move the one third deposit to another available lamb or accept a refund.  If a buyer cancels out of their purchase after the one third deposit is made, and the lamb is still healthy and for sale, the deposit may not be refundable at that time.
 
Enough talking; here is the list of AI breeding for 2007 lambs.
 
465M - Ormur
733P - Mori
520M - Visir - One lamb will stay
817R - Eldar
821R - Aegir - One lamb will stay
614N - Rektor
810R - Lodi
722P - Kjalvar
118K - Ormur
434K - Tigull
608N - Ormur - One lamb will stay
863R - Tigull
832R - Mori - One lamb must stay
601N - Langidalur
FFC- 436R - Rektor
726P - Udi
403M - Hnokki
195L - Aegir
416M - Hylur - One lamb will stay
809R - Langidalur
642N - Grimur, one lamb reserved, holdover from last year.
834R - Hnokki
 
Happy New Year!!

Barb                               


Jager Farm
Barbara L. Webb
75 Mountain Street
Haydenville, MA 01039
413 268-3086
jager@jager-icelandics.com

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