Age my Ram. UPDATE: official age is confirmed. see last post.

[resident vs nonresident]

Well its official, just got the results earlier today from MATSON's Lab. in their CC (certainty code) field listed this a "A" highest quality tooth sample, so they are confident in the result given.
this was super fun, and many of you guys got it spot on.
Ram aged at 12 years old !!!
now that i know official age i can clearly make out all the lines from 4year ring on and it does add to 12
super stocked on my once in a lifetime ram.



also now that its been over 5 month since i got the ram i just grabbed measuring tape and scored him.
seems like overall it shrunk about 2" total since i first green scored him. (seems like D1 bases shrunk the most from original date)
originally i had him at 168 1/8
today i scored him at 166 4/8

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Cool. An old, old ram.

 

[tstowater]

Congratulations again. Excellent sheep to take as it's days on the mountain were limited. I wish we all could take one that old.

 

[ol490]

What a fantastic, old ram. Extra cool that you sent the tooth in for aging. Congrats!

 

[Steve O]

That is excellent and a testament to the work the RMBS does with the Colorado sheep biologists. Thanks for getting him aged and posting the results!