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The Irish Texel Sheep Society will host its premier show and sale this weekend (Friday, August 9 and Saturday, August 10) at Blessington Mart.
Due to sudden illness, the Ballyhivistock Texel and Rouge De L’Ouest adult flocks are being offered up for sale at Ballymena Livestock...
A total of 16 breeds were represented in the final sheep inter-breed champion class at Castlewellan Show 2024.
N.Ireland
Newry Show 2024 saw a tremendous Jersey cow scooping the event’s dairy inter-breed title: Potteswalls Bontino Dawn
All roads lead to Carnaross Mart this coming Friday, December 29 for the North East Irish Texel Club’s Twilight in-lamb sale.
The popular Festive Crackers in-lamb Texel female sale took place earlier this week (Tuesday, December 19), and saw a top price of 5,000
Sheep Technical
Ballymena Mart is the place to be on Tuesday, December 19 for the popular Festive Crackers in lamb Texel sale.
Sheep Ireland held its multi breed ram sale at Tullamore Mart on August 26, where it recorded average sales prices of €795 for a ram.
Ahead of the 2023 ‘Sheep Northern Ireland’ event, there is set to be a demand for the Texel breed across the sheep sector.
Sheep News
Belclare and Texel breeders took home two awards which were up for grabs last week at the Sheep Ireland conference in Tipperary.
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The Big Boy Ram Sale 2021 on the farm of James Dunne. Come have a look at these fine Texel and Aber shearling rams.
A sheep sale in Scotland saw a new world record price this week, when Charlie Boden sold Sportsmans Double Diamond for 350,000gns.
The Irish Texel Sheep Society is set to host its main sale this Friday, August 30, at the Showgrounds, Carrick-On-Shannon, Co. Leitrim.
The Irish Texel Sheep Society is set to hold its premier show and sale, this Friday, August 9, and Saturday, August 10.
The newly formed Irish Blue Texel Society is set to host its first show and sale in GVM Group's Tullamore Mart on Friday, August 9.
In 2013, Oberstown Usain Bolt was awarded the Overall Champion at the Texel Premier Sale, selling for the top price on the day of €7,350.
Most of the in-lamb ewes entered are from flocks participating in Sheep Ireland’s LambPlus Scheme and have €uroStar values.
The Special Texel In-Lamb Sale is set to take place on Saturday, December 8, in Blessington Mart, Co. Wicklow.
The pre-sale champion from Brian Williamson’s Farmhill flock led the prices at Wednesday’s Northern Irish National Texel Sale.
Neville Myles ram lamb, Silver Hill, set a packed ringside alight when he soared to 15,000gns at the Irish Texel Sheep Society premier sale.
John Renehan runs a commercial and pedigree sheep breeding operation in Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny. The farm encompasses 170ac - 20ac of which is under forestry.
Farming in Kildalkey, Co. Meath, John Canty is breeding pedigree Texel sheep with the commercial farmer in mind.
