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Breed Directory

Badger-face Welsh Mountain

"Not just a pretty face" Hardy, prolific, excellent for commercial crossing.
Lucy Levinge Tel: 01981 550685
Email: lucy.levinge@fwi.co.uk
www.badgerfacesheep.co.uk

Beltex

The terminal sire

Tel/Fax 01695 627626
website www.beltex.co.uk

Berrichon
du Cher

Early lambing, Easy lambing, Early finishing

Emma Hillhouse Tel: 01584 881657

Blackface Blackface sheep Breeders' Association
Aileen McFadzean Tel: 01764 683746
Email aileen@scottish-blackface.co.uk
Website www.scottish-blackface.co.uk
Black Welsh Mountains Hardy, prolific and disease-resistant
L. Lewin, Lake Villa, Bradworthy, Devon, Exeter EX22 7SQ
Tel: 01409 241579
Email: blackwelsh@lakevilla.co.uk
Bluefaced Leicester The only sire of the famous Mule
Jean Gibbon, Regent House, Bank Street, Annan DG12 6AA
Tel: 01461 206900
Border Leicester The versatile crossing sire
Nesta Todd, Greenend, St Boswells, Melrose, Roxburghshire, TD6 9ES 01835 824207
website: www.borderleicesters.co.uk
British Friesland The high-yielding dairy breed
British Friesland Sheep Society, Weir Park Farm, Waterwell Lane, Christow, Exeter EX6 7PB
01647 252549 Email: peter@baber.co.uk
British Milksheep

The Crossing Sire
Secretary W.J. Hopkins Tel 01564 742398
email: williamhopkins@realemail.co.uk

Cambridge Quantity with quality, crossbreeds of distinction
Hon Sec. Pharm House, Willaston, South Wirral, L64 2TF
Tel: 0151 327 5699
Charmoise Hill Hardy hill sheep adding shape to prime lambs
Rachel Eglin, Mob 07803 727454
email: r.d.eglin@vla.defra.gsi.gov.uk
Dorper Prolific ewes,fast-growing lambs and no wool
Tel: 01488 648111
Email: viridian_services@yahoo.co.uk
Dorset Down King of the Prime Lamb Breed
Trevor Glasper, Glaspers Land Agency ltd.
Branscombe, Seaton, Devon. EX12 3BT
email: glaspersltd@farmersweekly.net
Easy Care Breed replacements and get rid of the wool
Iolo Owen, Tel 01407 840401
Email: iolo@easycaresheep.com
website: www.easycaresheep.com
Ile de France The breed to meat your grades
Edward Adamson Tel: 07711071290
website: www.iledefrancesheep.co.uk
Lleyn Hard to pronounce, impossible to beat
Mrs G. Roberts, Gwyndy, Bryncroes, Pwllheli, Gwynedd LL53 8ET Tel: 01758 730366
Meatlinc The ram for quality lamb
For details call 01904 448675
website: www.meatlinc.co.uk
North Country Cheviot The ideal crossing sire for hill ewes
Tel/Fax 01862 894014
North of England Mule The original and best mule
Dorothy Bell Tel: 01388 527411
email: info@nemsa.co.uk
website: www.nemsa.co.uk
Poll Dorset Quality lambs every month of the year
Marguerite Cowley Tel: 01305 262126
email: mail@dorsetsheep.org
website: www.dorsetsheep.org
Rouge The easy lambing terminal sire
John Wescott Tel: 0845 600 1503
email: secretary@rouge-society.co.uk
website: www.rouge-society.co.uk
Scotch Mule Prolific and profitable, milky and hardy
Kirsty Cannon, 257-4 South Gyle Road,
Edinburgh, EH21 9EJ
Tel: 0131 3347571
Shetland

Easy lambing, excellent conservation grazers
B Burrows, Tel: 01422 883651
Email: barbara@poota.com
website www.shetland-sheep.org.uk

Shropshire Easy-care traditional breed ideal for extensive systems
Pippa Geddes Tel: 01743 741689
website: www.shropshire-sheep.co.uk
Southdown Sheep The breed that makes ends meat
Clive Pritchard, 300 Cople Road, Cardington, Bedford MK44 3SH Tel: 01234 838807
email: secretary@southdownsheepsociety.co.uk
website: www.southdownsheepsociety.co.uk
Suffolk

The Suffolk Sheep Society
The Sheep Centre, Malvern
Worcs. WR13 6PH
Telephone 01684 893366

Swaledale

England's premier hill breed
John Stephenson, The Shooting Lodge, High Shipley
Eggleston, Barnard Castle, Durham. DL12 0DP
Tel: 01833 650516

Teeswater Excellent crossing sire for upland breeds
Tel: 01833 650032
email: wodencroft@freenet.co.uk
website: teeswater-sheep.co.uk
Vendeen

"Probably the best terminal sire"
Andrew John, Darkes House, Conderton, Tewkesbury, Glos. GL20 7PP
Tel: 01386 725229

Wiltshire Horn The woolless meat sheep
Ann Elliott Tel: 01604 839115
33 Oaklands, Bugbrooke
Northampton, NN7 3QU
email post@wiltshirehorn.org.uk
website: www.wiltshirehorn.org.uk
Zwartbles
Zwartbles Ram

Producing excellent pedigree and cross bred lambs that mature in just 12 weeks.Ideal for the short summer grazing. Ewes are friendly,lamb with no problems and are very hardy. Hardly ever sick or sorry.
Jayne Stevenson, Barn Meadow, West Malling, Kent. ME19
email: jayne_stevenson@hotmail.com
Tel: 01634 242997/07990 655118