Our modern day Association was founded in 1892 by a group of celebrated Lincoln Ram breeders, the most noteable being, Henry Dudding of Riby, Great Grimsby.
The main aims of our Association today are much the same:
• The encouragement...
The Group was established by a number of enthusiastic breeders in 1994 with the aim of promoting and enhancing the breed. At that time Norfolk Horns were category 1 – ‘critical’ on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust’s watchlist, with fewer than 300...
The Blackface Sheep Breeders' Association was formed at a meeting in Lanark in 1901, when the attending Blackface breeders recognised that there were problems within the sheep industry.
From the outset, the main objectives of the Association...
The South Wales Mountain Sheep, which is also sometimes called a Nelson or a Glamorgan Welsh, is the largest of the Welsh Mountain breeds. It is believed to be of the same primitive ancestry as the Welsh Mountain Sheep, but for many years it has...
Formed in 1974 the British Texel Sheep Society has grown into the largest registry of Pedigree Texel sheep anywhere in the world. Today 2,000 Texel official breeders birth notify around 55,000 lambs with 20,000 females and 1,500 males going...
The breed's origin almost certainly emerged from the genetic group of horned sheep from which also came the Blackface, the Rough Fell, and other localised types. Slowly over time a 'Swaledale' breed type emerged from within these horned...
The Suffolk evolved from the mating of Norfolk Horn ewes with Southdown rams in the Bury St Edmunds area, these sheep were known as Southdown Norfolks, or locally, as "Black faces."
The first recording is in 1797 when in his "General view of...
The Southdown is the oldest of the terminal sire breeds in the UK and as the name suggests originates from the native sheep which have roamed the South Downs in the South of England for many hundreds of years.
Developed by foresighted...
Ryeland sheep are amongst the oldest of the established British sheep breeds. Although the exact origins of the Ryelands are lost in the mists of time it is believed that they were derived from the Spanish Merino. The breed was developed in the...
The breed is known in France as The Rouge de L’Ouest (usually shortened to Rouge) which translates as “The Red of the West”, describing both the skin colour and origin of the sheep.
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