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 ...

In 1993 Siremax was formed when Columbia-type ewes were bred to Texel cross rams in an effort to breed composite sires superior to established breeds in lean growth, commercial fitness and longevity.

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 ...

Welsh Mule ewe lambs sold to £86 a head from T V Price, Little Vaynor. Breeding rams sold to 350gns for a purebred Charollais ram from T Richards, Old Hall. Also to 280gns for Texel rams from J P ...

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 excellent ...

Texel sheep hail from a small island in the Netherlands and regularly fetch five-figure prices, according to the Texel Sheep Society. The previous record for a sheep sold in the United Kingdom was ...

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 ...