SPECIAL BREED RULES
Please be aware if your breed has any special sale rules. Some of these specific breed rules are listed here for your review, others
are listed on your breed’s websites. All special breed rules are enforced by the breed association, not by the Midwest Sale staff.
Katahdin:
1. Only 100% Registered (White Papered) Katahdins are eligible.
2. Consignors must be KHSI or CKSI members.
3. All entries must be shown to determine their sale order.
4. Consignors should enter “A” coat yearlings or lambs that have shed their lamb coats.
It is recognized that such shedding may not be possible for younger spring lambs, particularly any spring lamb entries born in March or April.
5. As Katahdins are Hair Sheep, no shearing, trimming or clipping will be permitted.
Consignors should present their entries in as attractive manner as possible. Washing and brushing are encouraged.
6. No tail docked animals allowed.
7. All yearling rams and fall ram lambs must have a negative b.Ovis ELISA test, in addition to the interstate health papers required for all entries.
Dorper:
1. Fullblood and Purebred entries will be combined into single classes.
2. All rams should be High Type 3 or better.
3. Consignors are allowed 2 ram entries, any additional rams must have 2 ewes for each ram entered.
4. All entries must be slick sheared within one week of the show unless the animal has completely shed at the time of the show.
No carding or blocking will be permitted.
Montadales:
All entries MUST be codon tested and lab reports MUST accompany registration papers at check-in.
Polypays:
1. All animals consigned to the sale must be from multiple births.
2. All yearling ewes consigned must have lambed prior to sale.
Texels:
1. The Texel Sheep Breeders Society has determined that animals will not be allowed to be penned and participate in the show and sale unless the
animal has a liftable tail dock (there must be tail vertebrae liftable by hand). The recommended tail length is 1.5 inches which would approximate
a dock at the distal end of the caudal fold. All animals born after July 1, 2014 must conform to the tail docking rule in order to participate in the
National Texel Show and Sale.
2. All Texels must have negative OPP tests within 30 days of the sale. Lambs under 6 months must have similar tests of their dame within 30 days.
Southdowns:
1. HEREDITARY CHONDRODYSPLASIA, ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIS, and CODON 171 SALE WARRANTY: At all sales sponsored by this association the seller
warrants to the buyer that sheep sold are free of Hereditary Chondrodysplasia (spider), Ectodermal Dysplasia (hairy lamb) and contain a minimum of
one R at condon 171. Any claimed violation of this warranty shall be settled between the buyer and seller. This guarantee shall constitute a contract
between the buyer and the seller only. No other parties, including but not limited to the American Southdown Breeders’ Association, Sale Management
and sponsoring organizations, shall assume any liability, legal or otherwise, express or implied. Any seller failing to in good faith comply with this rule
shall be denied the right to register and transfer with the Association and will be automatically barred from selling any sheep for five years or until re-
solved to this sale or any sale sponsored or sanctioned by the American Southdown Breeders’ Association.
2. DNA TESTING: Designate Gene Check as official lab for ASBA Show and Sale work. (Summer 2009.)
Suffolk:
The United Suffolk Sheep Association has adopted the following requirements for all USSA sanctioned sales, including the Midwest Sale. This applies to
both breeding sheep and wether sires and dams.
RegisteredSuffolksofallgenotypes(NN,NS,RR,QR,QQ)willbeallowedtosell. Eachconsignormustdeclareandguaranteethegeneticmakeupofeachoftheir
entrieswithrespecttobothspidersyndromeandscrapiesusceptibility(codon171). AnyregisteredSuffolkmaybesoldaslongasthisinformationisprovided
atthetimeofpapercheck-inpriortothestartoftheshows. DNAtestresultsarenotrequiredandconsignorsmaydeclareandguaranteethegenotypesoftheir
entriesbasedsolelyonpedigree. Genotypeinformation(NSorNNandQQ,QRorRR)willbeprintedonthesaleorder,whichispreparedfollowingtheshows.
Any buyer who wishes to have the benefit of this guarantee must have the animal DNA tested, at the buyer’s expense, to confirm whether or not the
sheep is as declared by the seller with respect to either scrapie susceptibility or spider syndrome. Such testing must be performed within 45 days of the
date of sale. If a sheep is determined by the buyer’s DNA testing to be of lesser genotype that the consignor declared at the sale, the seller shall have
the option of having the animals retested at the seller’s expense. The seller must arrange for such testing within two weeks of receipt of buyer’s test
results or a mutually agreeable timetable. In the event there is a conflict in the results between the two tests, a third test will immediately be run with
the cost of such third test to be equally shared by the buyer and seller.
If the animal is determined to be less than declared by the consignor or if the seller fails to provide for a re-test, the sheep shall be returned to the seller
with the costs association with the transportation of the retuned sheep being equally shared by the buyer and the seller and the seller shall refund the
full purchase price of the animal promptly, with all fees and percentages levied against the animal retained by the sale.
This guarantee shall constitute a contract between the buyer and seller only. No other parties, including but not limited to the USSA, sale management,
sponsoring organizations, shall assumer any liability, legal or otherwise, express or implied. Sellers failing to comply with the spirit of these provisions
will be subject to being barred from future USSA sanctioned sales.
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