Parker Stock Farm

28/07/2024

The event to rule them all!

Our youngest daughter, Dr Lindsay Parker eloped to New Zealand in March with her longtime love Chad Willis who works as a High Voltage Electrician.

By far the best part of 2024!

28/07/2024

Another highlight of 2024 was making the trip to Humboldt Sask for the Saskatchewan Sheep Breeders' Association and Saskatchewan Sheep Development Board Grasslands Sheep Exhibiton.

Thank you to Courtney McDougall for lending “Chocolate” to Wren for the costume class! She still hasn’t stopped talking about it!

OD Farms

28/07/2024

2024 was a great year for us. We are very excited for all of our new additions to the flock and can’t wait for lambing season!

12/07/2024

W**d free Sheep Compost for sale!

heated to 160°F, rolled 3X, each time water was added to the pile. Did we mention w**d free?

$10 for 5 gallon pail, you load.
$30 for 35 gallon garbage can, you load.
$100 for half ton load, we load!

Call Glen 403-443-0401 or contact through Facebook

09/06/2024

Thank you to everyone who participated in our 2024 Production sale last night!

Congratulations to Ace of Clubs sheep division with the high selling Ram, Parker 35H 90L, for $2200.

Gary Rairdan with R&W Ranches with the high selling ewe, Parker 34E 20L at $1900 as well as John Wurz with Parker436J 22J at $1900!

Welcome and thank you to WestExcel Lamb too for being the high volume buyer!

Congratulations!

We’ll see you next year!

09/06/2024

We are now in the Soft Close portion of our sale!

09/06/2024

1 hour until soft close of our 2024 Production sale!

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08/06/2024

Welcome to the final day of the Parker Stock Farm Production sale!

Follow the link: https://farmgatetimedauctions.ca/auction/23598

Mark your favourites, and check back often! Soft close happens at 7pm!

06/06/2024

Beautiful days like today are only made better when you receive the following message from a buyer who has trusted our program for the last 2 years !

“We put a huge amount of time into genetic records on our farm. On the terminal side, our current focus is:
1) slightly increasing lamb birth weight (but not too much!)
2) ongoing improvement of lamb survivability
and 3) increasing the 50-100 day rate of gain.

Without Genovis records to provide EPDs on these traits, we have absolutely no way to select rams that will positively influence our flock. The Suffolk rams we purchased last year did the work we asked of them.
Thanks for providing the numbers we need, Glen and Kathy! We will be back!”
Stacey White and Tara Giesbrecht, Bluffton, AB

Thank you Stacey and Tara for having confidence in our program!

29/05/2024

HERE IT IS!

Our 2024 Timed online production sale catalogue. Featuring sons and daughters of 3 outstanding herd sires, including Moralta 35H, Moralta 436J and Parker KAP 1E 34E.

⭐️All rams have passed a breeding soundness exam
⭐️All lots have been Scrapie genotyped and are OPP NEGATIVE

All lots are available for viewing prior to the sale on the farm.

https://farmgatetimedauctions.ca/auction/23598

27/05/2024

All lots are available for viewing on the farm prior to sale day!

Please phone Glen at 403-443-0401 to arrange

21/05/2024

All sale preview photos are up!

Head over to
https://farmgatetimedauctions.ca/auction/23598 to check out all lots. Our catalogue is being finalized and will be available soon.

Our personal favorite photo is below of Boss who tolerated our shenanigans all day!

21/05/2024

Here he is! The first ram feature, Parker 8L

A ram who embodies POWER! With his big loin, heavy bone and good testicles he again is a classic Moralta 35H (Boss) son!

Bid on him and more at our timed online production sale June 7-8/24 hosted by DLMS

20/05/2024

Our first ewe feature! Parker 14L

A daughter out of “Boss” (Moralta 35H) who showcases lots of muscle, wide top line from her shoulders right to her tail head, deep wide chest and strong legs. Classic Boss!

She exemplifies everything that we strive for in our ewe flock.

Bid on her and her full brother at our timed online Production sale June 7-8/24.

Catalogue available soon at www.DLMS.ca
DLMS - Direct Livestock Marketing Systems

17/05/2024

Big day shooting videos and photos of the sale sheep, thanks to the DLMS crew for another awesome job in some challenging weather! Watch for pictures early next week!

16/05/2024

We love hearing stories like this!

Rebecca and Jayden purchased ewes from our sale last year and they are producing the way we expect our ewe flock to perform!

Plan for performance from Parker Stock Farm and put some power in your flock June 7-8/24!

27/06/2023

Fun fact Tuesday!

Ruminants are amazing creatures, but what does being a ruminant mean? Ruminants are ungulates (2-toed) animals that chew a regurgitated cud. In order to chew their cud, they must have a specific type of stomach -- a rumen. Our domesticated ruminants have 1 stomach with 4 awesome compartments.
1. Rumen - The 1st chamber is the biggest and can be bigger than 30 gallons in a mature cow! The rumen has a "shaggy" carpet feel/look with papillae that flow back and forth (think seaw**d moving in the ocean). The rumen is filled with "bugs" and has its own ecosystem of bacteria and yeast to break down forages.
2. Reticulum -- This 2nd chamber is a smaller outcropping of the rumen and has "cups" like a honeycomb pattern to catch the food for digestion.
3. Omasum - The 3rd part is a tight basketball shaped compartment in adult cattle with many "pages" of a book. The food weaves back and forth, absorbing water and drying out the ingesta.
4. Abomasum - The 4th compartment is like our human stomach. The ingesta is rehydrated with acid for the final digestion before the intestines.
Check out what they look like!

22/06/2023

‼️‼️ We have a select number of market lambs available for custom processing in the next few weeks.

Priced at $10.95/lb dressed weight (estimation 55-65 lbs)

All lambs are raised without antibiotics, are hormone free and not fed any animal by-products.

Please message us to be put on the list for some delicious farm fresh Alberta lamb!

Send a message to learn more