Sheep Breeds

Texel
Down Breed, fast-growing meat lambs

Charolais sheep
Down breed. Rams are crossed with commercial ewes to produce quality lambs.

Suffolk Sheep
Down breed, leading UK sire. Fast-growing meat lambs

Lleyn Sheep
Hill breed. Dual purpose. Long, excellent white wool but primarily kept for meat.

Blue-faced Leicester
Upland/longwool breed. Dual purpose. Long wool breed. Sires the North Country Mule when crossed with a Swaledale or Northumberland type Blackface dam.

Beltex
Down breed. Primarily kept for meat. Well-fleshed leg, good eye muscle and long loins.

North of England Mule
Upland/Longwool. Crossbreed. UK's most popular commercial sheep for crossing purposes. Good motherly instincts.

Shetland sheep
Hill breed. Small, hardy and multi-purpose breed. Popular pets, or used for wool, meat, milk, conservation grazing.

Merino sheep
Kept for their valuable wool.

Scottish Blackface sheep
Hill breed.

Swaledale sheep
Hill breed.

Kerry Hill sheep
Hill breed.

Welsh mountain sheep
Hill breed

Clun Forest Sheep
Hill breed

North Country Cheviot sheep
hill breed

South Country Cheviot sheep
Hill breed

Exmoor Horn sheep
Hill breed

Teeswater sheep
Upland/longwool

Wensleydale sheep
Upland/longwool

Border Leicester sheep
Upland/Longwool

Oxford Down sheep
Lowland/down breed