NEW YEAR JANUARY 2012

Since I last posted a whole lambing time has come and gone, so we now have lots of lambs on the ground. The weather has been very much kinder to us than it was a year ago with only one morning when a couple of taps needed thawing out.

Today I would like to show you photos of some of our stock rams that are being successfully used at Foulrice.

Edstaston Headmaster TG7014, purchased as a lamb at Worcs. Premier from Robert & Jeannette Gregory. At five years of age he is as correct as the day we bought him & he consistently sires some of our best shearling rams including our pen leader at Builth II 2011 sold to Ieuan & Evlin Lloyd for 2300gns.

Ballynoe House Isaac YCR 8029, purchased as a lamb from Ian Craig at Dungannon. As a shearling he stood second in a large class at the Royal Welsh Show. A very tight skinned ram, he sired the top price all breeds ram at Builth I 2010 sold for 2000gns to Paul & David Curran, plus another shearling ram at Worcs. 2011 sold to Herbie & Alan Kennedy at 2100gns. He was also sire of the first prize shearling ewe at the 2011 Skipton female sale.

Wernfawr Jim XEV 9061, purchased in 2009 at Builth I from Paul & David Curran where he was the pre-sale champion. A big powerful ram in excess of 150kgs he has not only been shown successfully finishing the 2011 season as champion stock ram in the Yorkshire area, but also sired our best ram lamb at Worcs. 2011 selling at 4200gns to Arwel Owen & Partners as well as producing the first prize ewe lamb at the Great Yorkshire Show.

Rainbow Komodo Dragon XPU 0079, purchased as a lamb at Worcs. Premier 2010 for 1400gns from Andrew & Jan Walton. A high indexed ram with excellent fleshing whose first crop of lambs produced a strong ram lamb at Worcs. 2011 selling at 1300gns to Colin Bowen for his Hendy flock.

More pictures & news will follow shortly as I update you on our flock management.

Yorkshire Charollais Flock Competition

Latest news from Foulrice Charollais is that we have enjoyed success in the Yorkshire area flock competition as follows:-

• Large flock ewes 1st prize

• Large flock ewe lambs 1st prize

• Stock ram with progeny on the ground 1st prize  -  Wernfawr Jim, XEV 9061

• Home bred ram lamb - 1st prize - Foulrice Lightening 11DG01588 - this is our top March born ram lamb being born & reared as a twin off a ewe lamb. At 22 weeks he weighed 73kgs & scanned with a 34.7mm eye muscle, coming in with an index of 355, putting him in the top 10%. He has a certain amount of style & a really good tight skin, consequently we have used him & he has served 25 ewe lambs.

All of this culminated in us being awarded Champion Flock with which we are highly delighted.

2011 - Watch this Space

HI

We've just moved our website so that we can easily update it!!!

We will be updating with what's happened recently and going forward with more photos and information.

2009 Sale Update

We are pleased to invite you to our eighth annual ram sale, again with complimentary lamb BBQ. This year's on farm sale is taking place on Friday 4th September when our auctioneer Willie McCulloch will put 100 rams under the hammer.

We are also holding a major reduction of the flock at the Skipton Female Sale on Saturday 17th October (see detail on home page).

2009 Sales

Worcester Premier Sale. We once again won the Pennywern Progeny Group Trophy with offspring of Ash Charollais Filibuster and the leading shearling sold at 1200gns to eric sleep for his Trevadlock Flock.

Builth I Ram Sale. Success in the show ring - first prize senior ram, 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize in the recorded shearling ram class plus 1st prize large pen shearling rams and overall champion pen followed by a very buoyant trade to a top of 880gns.

2008 Sales

Our top ram lamb at the Premier Sale at Worcester, grandson of Filibuster and son of Grenadier (DG6311) sold at 2,100gns to John Osbourne of Cornwall.

Our on farm ram sale saw a very buoyant trade with shearling rams to a top of 680gns and ram lambs to 600gns, supporting our decision not to trim these sheep and present them naturally.

another highlight of our season was the Builth II Ram Sale where our pen of 12 shearling rams achieved top pen average at £649.

2006 Sales

Worcester Premier Sale 2006

Already into the 2006 sale season, Worcester Premier Sale brought success for progeny of our 2005 Premier purchase Ash Charollais Filibuster. This gold award ram purchased for 2100gns in his first season produced progeny which won the Progeny Cup Award.

This group was led by Foulrice Gladiator DG 6050, which gained the most points in the breed evaluation with a total of 247, bringing him Gold Award and Champion Ram Lamb. In this he had the highest loin score at 38 and was one of only two ram lambs with a gigot score of 50 and above.He subsequently sold to W & C Ingram and C & D Timm for the top ram lamb price of 5600gns.

Foulrice Gladiator, DG 6050 Champion Ram Lamb Worcester 2006

Our second Gold Award Filibuster son DG 6405 Foulrice Gervase was knocked down at 1100gns to Harold Keast, South West region chairman (Foulrice Gervase was resold in October at Harold Keast's dispersal sale for 1300Gns to John & Sue O'Reilly), whilst a third Filibuster son, with an index in the top 25% was taken by R & M Tulloch and Charles Sercombe at 16000gns.

A well grown Jubilee son out of one of our oldest flock ewes, a Foulrice Rival daughter, made 900gns to Mary Madders and Stuart Johnson (Stuart informs us that this Ram has never stopped growing), giving us an average of £2415 for 4 lambs sold.

Our shearling trade was also very buoyant, being led by Foulrice Falcon, an Urley Nook Endeavour son was sold at 3000gns to James Clanachan, Dumfries. (Urley Nook Endeavour was 2005 National Male Champion of Champions). Falcon has been used as a lamb and produced some very fleshy March born lambs and subsequently has won the stock ram section in the south of Scotland flock competition in Autumn 2006.

Foulrice Falcon, DG 5300