April 11, 2012 by fred.

The photos and sale information for our 2nd Online Club Lamb Sale is now posted on www.wlivestock.com There is also a link from our website to the sale website. Call or email us with any questions you may have. We are excited to offer the 2012 set of club lambs for sale. The new Wheaton Hampshire and Impact Hampshire rams have sired many top show lamb prospects that are absolutely right for today!

Thank you for viewing our sale offering.

The Fred Knop Family

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April 6, 2012 by fred.

We have decided to offer full interest and full possession in our Wheaton Exile son–Wheaton 1-122 (Excel). Excel has sired many good lambs this year including our $2001 wether lamb in the HYSLC sale plus several outstanding ewe lambs we plan to add to our flock. This is your opportunity to purchase one of the best sons of Exile available. Excel’s mother is a True Blood (Marcantel) daughter out of a Classic (Miller) daughter. Excel tests NNRR. Additional details can be located on our website under the Sires tab and the For Sale tab or just give us a call.

The Fred Knop Family

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April 5, 2012 by fred.

We are excited to present our 2012 consignment of show wethers and ewe lambs which we will offer in our 2nd online sale. Lots has changed in the last year with the addition of three Wheaton Hampshire rams, one Impact Hampshire ram and 12 additional key Impact Hampshire ewes. We are sure you will really appreciate the skeletal and rib design, hip structure, muscle, bone and shag that this offering brings to the table.

We plan to have some photos posted to our website by the first part of next week. The sale order and photos should be submitted and posted to our online sale manager’s website-www.wlivestock.com-by next week also.

Be sure to contact us for additional information.

The Fred Knop Family

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March 4, 2012 by fred.

We are pleased to announce that we have purchased the Impact 083 ram from Impact Hampshires. After analyzing his 2012 lambs born on our farm we decided we needed to purchase 083.

We believe that Impact 083’s genetic make-up predicts that he will sire some of the most on-target show lambs available anywhere. 083 is sired by Young Jock (Duffy 60) and his mother is the #90 Livewire (Marcantel) daughter in Impact’s flush program. Analyze 083’s pedigree and photos on our sire tab. We think you will agree that his perfect rib structure and chest floor, his hip design, his large footprint, real bone and his full-blown shag coupled with the powerful females we exposed him to will equate into the type of show lamb winning today. You will be impressed with the consistency of his lambs.

Fred

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February 17, 2012 by fred.

The majority of our ewe lambs were bred to Impact 083. Most of the ewe lambs have now lambed. The lambs sired by Impact 083 are like “peas in a pod”!!! They are born with extra bone, shag, and that “show ring look”!!! Almost all of the lambs have been males. We could not be more pleased with this set of lambs. If you are seeking that special crossbred or Hampshire lamb for 2012 we would invite you to take a look at this set. You will not be disappointed.

Fred Knop

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January 24, 2012 by fred.

We now have a representative cross-section of lambs sired by Pay Day and Catalyst. We could not be more excited! Based on early evaluations the hip structure, design and power these lambs display exceeds our expectations! Our first Apex lamb has also been born–you will like this lamb!

The next two weeks will bring the majority of our lambs to the lambing jugs with lots of genetic combinations to evaluate. Watch our blog and website –we will keep you posted on some key lambs as they are born.

The Fred Knop Family

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January 9, 2012 by fred.

We congratulate Sara Johnson for showing the Lot 16 lamb from our 2011 Knop Online Club Lamb Sale to 3rd place honors in class 6 behind the Res. Grand Champion Overall (Res. Champion Hampshire). This lamb was sired by Wheaton 18, an Untouchable son, and damned by Knop 676, a daughter of Step Ahead (Knop).

Two photos of this lamb can be found on our champion page. This is the type of lamb we expect in 2012 out of our Wheaton and Impact rams back on our Knop linebred females and the Impact Hampshire females.

Fred Knop

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January 4, 2012 by fred.

We have now completed a full update of many of the significant reference sires responsible for the genetic background of our flock. As you scroll through the various sires please note the impact of the linebred Mayer Hampshire genepool throughout most of our sires. Our flock is sometimes referred to as a “Suffolk” flock but in reality it is double linebred Mayer Hampshire and Crazy Horse Suffolk. It is our desire to combine the best of both the Hampshire and Suffolk worlds into a genetic entity that will breed true and perform consistently. Our 2012 lamb crop promises to document this effort.

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December 29, 2011 by fred.

We have posted our 2012 sale dates under our For Sale tab. Please watch the For Sale tab for additional information.

Fred Knop

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December 29, 2011 by fred.

Please enjoy the recently updated reference sire section of our webpage. It is our pleasure to step back in time to feature Omega who still lives strong today in our flock through the power of linebreeding. We have also added several other important reference sires to the page.

Fred Knop

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