Having moved to the Bo’ness-based unit in 2006, Riverview is now home to a small flock of six Dutch Spotted females, eight Valais Blacknose, 100 cross-bred commercial ewes and the Grougfoot flock of ...

Since the last survey in 2003 there has been a decline in purebred ewe numbers, an increase in crossbred ewes and a rise in the Texel as a terminal sire and as part of a crossbred ewe, at the ...

Under the programme, over 100 pure British Texel sheep embryos were implanted into 97 Barbados Blackbelly ewes at NARI, in order to develop a nucleus flock of pure-bred Texel sheep, to be used for ...

The flock consists of 50 purebred Lleyn ewes and 20 purebred Texel ewes, with a further 120 lower performing pedigree Lleyn ewes which are put to Texel ram lambs. The Texel flock was established ...

Pure-bred Texel gimmers from WJ and JG Bell, Kinninghall, Arbourlaw, Hawick, topped C and D Auction Marts’ sale of 3000 lowland breeding sheep selling at £300 per head. Suffolk gimmers peaked at £248 ...

Ewe lambs averaged £79.30 a head and sold to £145 a head for purebred Texel ewe lambs from J P L Owens, Aberceithon. Also to £115 a head for purebred Texel ewe lambs again from J P L Owens ...

In 1993 Siremax was formed when Columbia-type ewes were bred to Texel cross rams in an effort ... “Ours is not a purebred; it’s more of a composite with two or three different breeds they ...

The embryo transfer programme was done with the intention of creating pure breed Texel sheep for breeding purposes at NARI and an average success rate of 50-60 per cent was considered an ...

To assist entry of new stud members early on, a short duration upgrade registry was utilised but this had strict controls, allowing only upgrades from Poll Dorset and Texel ewes. These breeds were ...

The world's most expensive sheep has been sold for a record £365,000 ($485,000). The ram lamb called "Double Diamond" was the subject of an intense bidding war at the Scottish National Texel sale ...