I had a busy day at the NSA Ram Sale at Builth Wells yesterday.<\/p>\n
I purchased a yearling Lleyn ram from Wynne Davies, Pwllheli. This ram has great length, good skin and a great head. He will be primarily used for breeding females.<\/p>\n
I also purchased three Blue Texel ewes; two yearlings and one 3 year old. I now have 16 Blue Texel ewes and these are the foundation ewes of this new flock. The female bloodlines are strongly influenced by David Alexander’s Millside breeding, while the male bloodlines are from the breeding of Sue Andrews’s Miserden flock.<\/p>\n
I have been impressed with my first Blue Texel lamb crop and this autumn I am putting a small number of Lleyn ewes to the Blue Texel tup to see what this cross will be like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had a busy day at the NSA Ram Sale at Builth Wells yesterday. I purchased a yearling Lleyn ram from Wynne Davies, Pwllheli. This ram has great length, good skin and a great head. He will be primarily used for breeding females. I also purchased three Blue Texel ewes; two yearlings and one 3 … Continue reading “Lleyn Ram and Blue Texel Females Purchased”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-blue-texel-general","category-lleyn-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bearwoodfarm.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}