Not over fed texels?

[JohnAC]

Does anybody know of a breeder in Northern Ireland that don’t stuff there rams pre sale? Could do with a ram to put onto mule ewes to primarily breed ewe lambs? Society sale at the end of the month but expect them to be mostly big block headed over feed brutes

 

[M-J-G]

Could point you in the direction of one or two on the mainland, but I'm not sure who there is in NI.

 

[JohnAC]

Could point you in the direction of one or two on the mainland, but I'm not sure who there is in NI.

Problem is we can’t bring anything in from mainland because of blue tongue atm

 

[M-J-G]

Problem is we can’t bring anything in from mainland because of blue tongue atm

Yeah, it's a nuisance!

 

[ringi]

I expect any such breeder would be mostly selling direct from farm as the market system tend to undervalue grass fed rams. For other breads I would start with signet to get a list of local proformance recorded flocks, but texels are on their own system.

In England you have https://www.easy-rams.co.uk/texel and https://www.logiedurnosheep.co.uk/terminal-sires/texels/ that are both large scale grass fed direct sellers of texel rams. (There will be a few others) I don't know how often either of them ship to NI so worth giving them a ring, they may also know of someone in NI.

I don't know if SellMyLivestock covers NI, it occasionally get listings from quality breeders mixed in with the many cake fed rublish.

http://www.pedigreesheep.com/ is an Irish Breeder, I know nothing about them other than what their webaide says, claiming grass fed and sold from their farm.

Organic registers rams will be grass fed, and the Irish star rating system will tell you if they have provable reasonable genetic performance eg https://organictradinghub.ie/advert/?s=Texel+ram&post_type=advert

 

[sheepwise]

I expect any such breeder would be mostly selling direct from farm as the market system tend to undervalue grass fed rams. For other breads I would start with signet to get a list of local proformance recorded flocks, but texels are on their own system.

In England you have https://www.easy-rams.co.uk/texel and https://www.logiedurnosheep.co.uk/terminal-sires/texels/ that are both large scale grass fed direct sellers of texel rams. (There will be a few others) I don't know how often either of them ship to NI so worth giving them a ring, they may also know of someone in NI.

I don't know if SellMyLivestock covers NI, it occasionally get listings from quality breeders mixed in with the many cake fed rublish.

http://www.pedigreesheep.com/ is an Irish Breeder, I know nothing about them other than what their webaide says, claiming grass fed and sold from their farm.

Organic registers rams will be grass fed, and the Irish star rating system will tell you if they have provable reasonable genetic performance eg https://organictradinghub.ie/advert/?s=Texel+ram&post_type=advert

Since when was Logie Durno in England?

 

[M-J-G]

Since when was Logie Durno in England?

Or not feed

 

[TheRock]

We have plenty here. Sell about 40 Texel tups in our sale, not over fed and come with a 6 month warranty. Our Texels are very active, have longer necks and smaller heads, but still plenty of character.

Sale on 14th September in Plumbridge Market


Export eligible and can be delivered

https://m.facebook.com/people/Loughash-Blackfaces-Rock/100060706157287/

 

[Sheepfog]

Or not feed

To be fair their Tups that go through the society sales will be fed (as are everyone else’s)

But tups direct from them or through their on farm sale aren’t fed or trimmed

 

[cowboysupper]

Does anybody know of a breeder in Northern Ireland that don’t stuff there rams pre sale? Could do with a ram to put onto mule ewes to primarily breed ewe lambs? Society sale at the end of the month but expect them to be mostly big block headed over feed brutes

What part of the country are you in?

 

[neilo]

Since when was Logie Durno in England?

Since they started selling through franchise/satellite flocks?

English sheep with Scottish tags, just like a lot of the Aberdoodahs will be hardy Welsh sheep, with Scottish tags these days.

 

[H575]

Some PBNR here Randalstown area

 

[JohnAC]

What part of the country are you in?

Just outside Antrim

 

[cowboysupper]

Just outside Antrim

Henry Gamble (springwell) at Bangor or Fraser Tweed (ballycoose). at Larne arent far from you. Search for them on https://www.itexel.uk/ to get their details. I don't know any breeders who are 100% grass reared in NI but both of them are certainly more commercially focused.

 

[ringi]

To be fair their Tups that go through the society sales will be fed (as are everyone else’s)

But tups direct from them or through their on farm sale aren’t fed or trimmed

And their business have been going for a long time with a large requirement for repeat customers to remain profitable.

 

[Limcrazy]

You could just ask the breeders at society sales coming up. They would have plenty just grass fed, naturally done, no cabbages and they'd have been born and suckled without any assistance.
Maybe would have had a few oats just to keep them quiet and a generous piece if salt.