Sheep available for export

Rams and ewes available for export. Please contact well in advance if you wish to purchase and we can make arrangements for you including transport.

Please contact Ellie Stokeld on +447860 363742.

Sheep breeds from Britain have become key players in global livestock production, either in their own right or as "improvers" for local and indigenous breeds. Livestock producers in many countries are learning from the British experience in the use of planned and structured crossbreeding to exploit complementarities and hybrid vigour in their enterprises.

The UK was the first country to specialise it's national sheep flock for the production of quality lambs. British sheep are raised extensively outdoors all year round and rely almost exclusively on grass.
Hardy hill breeds freely inhabit the hills and uplands where they maintain an ecological balance with their environment. They are crossed with speciality prolific breeds to produce crossbreds for maternal use on lowland pastures for prime lamb production.

The "halfbreds" are in turn, crossed with terminal sires to produce fast growing lambs.
The Border Leicester is the ideal "crossing ram" to produce these very maternal, milky, halfbreds.With all of advantages he brings - prolifacy-hybrid vigour-uniformity- easy lambing and the high survival rate of hislambs, there can be no better choice.He also produces a quality fleece much liked by quality carpet manufacturers.

The Border Leicester has been exported to various countries in the last few years. Five years ago two Border leicester rams went across to Holland to be put onto the Texel ewe. Problems had been experienced at lambing time with the purebreds and the introduction of the Border Leicester ram put a stop to this. The ewes lambed easily and the lambs grew very quickly, achieving finishing time in a very short time.Many of the halfbred lambs were kept to breed from and, again, this was a very successful project.

We have since exported another 3 rams and 6 ewes as details of their success has spread in the Netherlands.

The breeders on this site are experienced in the export of the Border Leicester so if you would like to discuss importing sheep to your country please contact us via the contact page.