A SHEEP in North Cumbria has defied the one-in-a-million odds by giving birth to five healthy lambs! The quintuplets were born to a Texel ewe on the Benson family farm at Biglands, Wigton, last week.

Smith double top at CCM prime cattle show The North Craven Smith family – father and son, Francis and Andrew, Masongill – ...

A hill flock has survived a major enterprise restructure on an Exmoor farm, which saw cow numbers increased at the expense of ...

Tuesday’s sheep sale sold to a sharper trade at Saintfield Mart. Hoggets sold to £187. Ewes sold to £245. Hoggets - ...

Philip Whyte thanks outgoing committee member Alex Thompson for his commitment to the NI Texel Sheep Breeder's Club committee over the last 3yrs Mr Moses thanked the Clubs sponsors and judges for the ...

Jamie Kiely, who rears approximately 40 to 50 pet lambs annually on the family holding at Ballycoe Farm, north of Dungarvan, ...

Five pedigree texel sheep were killed, following a dog attack in Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan on Sunday, January 19. Four of the ewes were due to lamb in the next two weeks. Niamh Monahan, who farms with ...

Dingwall and Highland Marts sold 1201 sheep where 532 hoggs averaged 327.6p per kg having sold to 359p for a pair of 44kg Beltex crosses from Dunain Mains, Inverness, or £179 for a pair of 62kg Texel ...

“The ewe trade has been very strong with top Texel ewes up to £300 each.” Andrew Hunter Blair, sheep auctioneer at Craig Wilson was selling prime lambs at Newton Stewart. He said: “The trade was back ...