However, he said the sheep lived up to his name and was indeed “perfection”. New owner Mr Douglas said the Texel sheep was as good as he had seen, with a “great body and strong loin”.

The British Texel Sheep Society started in 1974 and the current chairman, Jeff Aiken, is spending some time at the show alongside his family. Jeff was born into a sheep farming family in Dromara ...

Kicked off by a 1970s themed evening on Friday (15th November), the weekend saw people from across the UK come together to mark the Society’s half-century landmark. Society chief executive John ...

Prices peaked at £410 per outfit at the opening sale of 216 sheep with lambs at foot at Skipton Auction Mart. Selling at that price was the first prize pen of Texel ewes with Suffolk cross twin lambs ...

Powys police are investigating the theft of seven sheep from an enclosed field near Llanfyllin. Between March 17 and March 22, several sheep were stolen from an enclosed farm field in the area of ...

Cast cattle (194) went to £3576.76 for a British Blue from Messrs Comrie, Stonebyres Mains and to 435.5p for one of the same from B Haigh, Hightown Farm. A Dutch Texel topped the hogg trade at £500 or ...