IT WAS a dreich day in Newcastleton, in the Scottish Borders, where a strong sheep section competed to be crowned overall Holm Show champion. That title was awarded to a Texel shearling tup on his ...

A Texel flock on the Llŷn Peninsula is one year into the process of switching its tup-rearing system to one based on forage and performance recording. Dafydd Jones of Cefn Caer Fech, Pwllheli ...

Deveronvale Perfection Textel tup lamb beats all records: £231,000. Saturday, August 29th 2009 - 09:48 UTC. ... New owner Mr Douglas said the Texel sheep was as good as he had seen, ...

Tup, tup lamb, ewe, gimmer, ewe lamb, group – J and E Lyle. Blackface (Judge: I Clark, Crawford, Lanarkshire). Champion – A and I Cullens, Dollar, with a gimmer by a £5000 Crossflat out of a Dalchirla ...

The sale broke the last UK record of around £134,000 for a Texel tup - or ram - in 2002 and even the world record for a sheep in Australia in the 1980s.

A ram was hailed as sheer perfection yesterday after being snapped up for a record £231,000. The six-month-old Texel beat the £205,000 paid in Australia in 1989 - and smashed the £128,000 UK ...

We have 300 Mule ewes and 200 Texel-cross ewes, producing the Texel-cross out of the Mules. We buy-in around 50 Mules a year from the Wombleton sale or at Hawes as replacements and keep about 100 ...

London: As the most expensive sheep in the world there is one thing Deveronvale Perfection can be sure of - at £231,000 (Dh1.4 million), he will never be made into lamb chops. The record-breaking ...

A TEXEL tup aged just six months has made the better market prices of 2009 look distinctly average. ...

THE 18th annual Eastgate Sheep Show attracted a good turnout on what was the hottest day of the year. The Swaledale gimmer section was won by C C and A E Martin with a gimmer shearling, which was ...

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