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2016 Southdown lambs

Last year we decided to put 3 of our Southdown ewes to a Texel tup and 3 of the ewes to the Southdown tup. All of our Southdown ewes were carrying singles so this year we had 3 pure Southdown lambs – 2 ewes and 1 tup.  :-)

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Charlie’s timeline

Charlie is a shearing Ram that we bred ourselves.He is one of our best and favourite rams and I have won many prizes with him at local shows.He sired two ewe lambs and one ram lamb.

 

Charlie - Highford Southdowns

 

 

Highford Southdown Charlie (2014)

Tup lamb (2014) Charlie

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Highford Charlie

Highford Charlie 

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Southdowns take prizes at Slaley Show 2013

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Alfie won Best Sheep for under 18′s and came 2nd in the Young Handlers class. Good lad.

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Bramble, 2013 ewe lamb (sired by Alfie), came 2nd in the Best Sheep for under 18′s and 3rd in the Young Handlers class.

Overall, I won a tankard for the most points in the Young people’s sheep classes.

image Me holding Bramble with her twin sister, Bracken.

This was my first time showing so I’m very pleased :-)