Tar River Ranch

05/09/2026

Ready for a great sale day!

05/09/2026

Pen Sale Tomorrow!! Please read the entire post if you are planning to attend. We have 3 scratches due to rough housing in the pens this week: Lot 15 (Natty wether), Lot 13 (Dorset wether) and Lot 23 (Dorset wether).

Viewing 9am to 11am
We are going have a silent auction for the first 3 picks. The first pick auction will end at 11 unless there is still active bidding within 1 minute. Once first pick closes, Buyer will pick their lot. After first lot has been chosen, there will be 2 minutes before we close the second pick auction. After the second pick has been chosen, there will be another 2 minutes before we close the third pick auction. Each auction will only be extended if there is a bid within 60 second of the last bid. Once auctions are completed its up to you to grab the note card with the lot number as fast as you can.

So example scenario.....
Andy bids $1 to have first pick, Sarah then bids $3 dollars to have first pick, Lorelei decides she wants first pick and bids $5 exactly at 11am. Count down begins, Sarah bids $6 within 45 seconds of Lorelei's bid, Andy bids $10 55 seconds after Sarah's bid, 60 seconds pass, auction closes. Andy goes and picks his first lot by getting the notecard with the lot number.
Once Andy picks his lot card off the line (11:04), count down for second pick begins. Sarah bids $5 at 11:04, Lorelei bids $6 59seconds later, 60seconds pass and no bids so auction closes. Lorelei goes and picks her lot by pulling the notecard with the lot number.
(Disclaimer from Sarah: it is late, it is the end of a very long week, if my time math doesn't math please dont hold it against me!!)

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05/04/2026

Apparently, we cannot count, there are 28 lots to be offered!
Below are the Lot numbers and some basic information on each.
See you Saturday!

04/28/2026

Finally the Specks.
All are sired by our Dorset Ram, Ringmaster. There will be 2 Ewe lambs that can be registered Dorset Advantage and 4 wether lambs, not all are pictured.

04/28/2026

We will be offering 1 red doe and 3 wether goats at the pen sale May 9th.

04/27/2026

We are two weeks away! Hope you can join us.

04/22/2026

The Dorsets!
All are sired by our ram, Ring Master (Big Foot x Slapshot). Ewes will be registered after purchase.

RM02, RM04, RM08 are ewe lambs.

RM05 is a wether, we have 2 additional wether but they were not pictured.

04/19/2026

Potentially Dangerous x Canseco Natty wethers.

Both were bottle babies so they are incredibly friendly.

The Natty Brothers will be available at our pen sale May 9th.

04/16/2026

Preliminary pictures of the "The Southdown Set"
- E01 and E02 are half Southdown ewe lambs
-AI39, AI40, AI42 are full Southdown wethers AI sired by Ryan2474 over a Forsee ewe.
- AI38 is a full southdown wether AI sired by Moto Moto over a Forsee ewe.
All lambs will be offered at our pen sale May 9th in Greenville, NC

04/12/2026

Tar River Ranch was well represented last week with lambs and goats being shown in the Coastal Plains Livestock Show, Johnston County Livestock Show, Eastern Carolina 4-H Livestock show and the Martin County Livestock show. We are proud of each of the youth who worked hard and did a great job raising and training livestock from our ranch.

04/04/2026

Many people have been asking us about our lambs for the fall show season. We are currently starting to wean off one of the best sets we have ever raised. We will be offering our lambs in a pen sale on May 9th here at the ranch. We will have registered Dorset, Dorset Advantage, and Southdown appearing ewe lambs. Wether lambs will include white face, speck, Southdown and a pair of very nice natties. We will be posting pictures in the upcoming weeks and you are invited to drop by and take a look at what we will be offering.