chief executive of the Texel Sheep Society, said of the staggering bid. The Texel breed, he explained, is “the very top of the sheep breeding industry” in the UK, making up about 30 percent of ...

“In the pedigree breed you start looking at the smaller ... generations with more muscly frames and eye-catching coats. Texel sheep hail from a small island in the Netherlands and regularly ...

Texel are a sought-after breed of sheep originally from the Netherlands. The lambs grow fast and the sheep are “ideal” for butchers, according to the society. There was a bidding war for ...

Picture: Texel Sheep Society The breed regularly attracts five-figure sale prices, but Double Diamond’s position in the top 1 per cent of the breed index meant he was always going to command ...

Mr and Mrs Parker currently have just over 200 Texel breeding ewes, 75 terminal and 25 maternal Texel rams. Summit Park Texel sheep are bred to perform under paddock conditions with minimal ...

Diamond was sold by breeder Charlie Boden to three farmers, who hope to breed the sheep. The sheep's selling price blew past the previously set record. In 2009 another Texel called Deveronvale ...

Experts exploring ways to identify farm animals who emit smaller amounts of gas and then select them as part of breeding ...

SHEEP are being bred to be kinder to the planet — by making them fart less. A new research study is developing ways to identify farm animals who emit smaller amounts of gas, which can then be ...

A farmer in South Roscommon is appealing for any information that may help trace twelve of his sheep that were stolen earlier ...

A Texel ewe from Allan Clark, Fineview, secured the sheep inter-breed championship at Colmonell and Ballantrae Show. Fineview also won the inter-breed group with Texels. Taking the blue and white sash ...

Kicked off by a 1970s themed evening on Friday (15th November), the weekend saw people from across the UK come together to mark the Society’s half-century landmark. Society chief executive John ...