01/13/2026
I hope they go down in a few years from now.
EDUCATION: What do these lap puppies cost?
Your soul, your love, your dedication, they cost everything….and return it all in fluffy, bouncy love and affection!
Pricing is determined by conformation, pedigrees, markings and wool quality.
I see a lot of people sticker shocked or very unaware of the cost of Valais. Bringing in and maintaining the Swiss standards on this Swiss breed is a lot of work and is costly. We can only import semen, and most recently, embryos. Most LAI results are about 67% and embryos are 50% or less. There’s a lot of risk with this way of breeding as well.
To put it as kindly as possible… please stop expecting the hard working breeders importing semen and embryos to rehome their stock for pennies. If you do find cheap stock, know that it is likely cheap for a reason. Commercially bred stock will not have the pedigrees and quality in conformation, wool, etc that a small breeding program will. A small program that assesses their current stock to see what needs improved upon with each generation. These breeders take the time to find semen from a quality ram that will ‘hopefully’ pass on the traits needed improved upon.
With this information, I put together a VERY loose, approximate price range list for ewes and wethers of the Valais breed. Some will be higher and some will be lower. If they’re quite a bit lower, I would be questioning things.
