British Sheep Breeders, Societies and Associations

UK Sheep Breeders Societies and Associations

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The Southdown Sheep Society

The Southdown bred pure will produce a fast growing prime lamb in record time. Crossed on any breed of ewe the resulting lamb will have a carcass of fine conformation and high grade if marketed correctly. Southdowns excel if mated to ewe lambs of any breed in a slightly smaller active lamb demanding less from its dam.

Suffolk Sheep Society

The exceptional growth rate of the Suffolk contributes to their outstanding performance and popularity as the leading terminal sire in the British Isles.

Suffolk Sheep Sire Reference Scheme

Formed in 1989, members use common (Reference) sires on 30 ewes within each flock by AI to provide links between members.

Swaledale Sheep

All the information for anybody involved with or interested in Swaledale Sheep. Including breed detail, scrapie info, marketing info, sales, shows, history, photographs, private sales, contact detail and much more.

British Texel Sheep Society

In Great Britain, the Texels have shown that they are capable of withstanding the rigours of the Scottish winter without any hardship and their progeny have proved to be as adaptable in our climate and altitude as the Flocks in Holland and France.

Vendeen Sheep Society Ltd

The Vendeen breed has been known in the Vendee region of France for many hundreds of years and is said to owe some of its blood to sheep saved from the wrecks of Spanish galleons at the time of the Armada.

Wensleydale Longwool
Sheep Breeders' Association

Originated in North Yorkshire early in the 19th Century from a cross between a long since extinct local longwool breed from the region of the River Tees and an outstanding Dishley Leicester ram named "Bluecap". The breed was developed to produce hardy rams for crossing onto hill ewes, together with high quality and valuable lustre fleeces.

Wiltshire Horn Sheep Society

The Wiltshire Horn Sheep Society has since 1923 ensured the maintenance and development of the breed, promoting it at home and abroad and providing breeders, farmers and consumers with information and advice.

Zwartbles Sheep Association

The Zwartbles is certainly a breed for the future, and the Zwartbles Sheep Association (ZSA) was established in 1995 to celebrate and promote the breed in the UK. Since the beginning of the last century, dairy farmers in the Friesland region of Holland have kept Zwartbles Sheep, a strikingly handsome black sheep with a distinctive white blaze.

Union Welcomes Support for Sheep EID Compliance
2010-Jan-28
NFU Scotland has warmly welcomed Scottish Government support and funding to assist Scottish sheep farmers in complying with unpopular new European rules which require sheep born this year and beyond to be electronically tagged and their movements recorded.

Blood Test to Fine-Tune Late Pregnancy Feeding
2010-Jan-18
Blood testing a small sample of ewes a month ahead of lambing could be particularly useful in avoiding lambing problems and securing the best possible lamb growth rates this season, suggests EBLEX.

SAC Scrapie Genotype Tests Approved for Export
2009-Nov-26
Defra has agreed that the results of scrapie genotyping tests carried out by SAC can be used for breeding sheep bound for export within the EU.

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