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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

2006 Show Update

At the Great Yorkshire, where the main silverware went north of the border, we were extremely pleased to win the ram lamb class with another Filibuster son. This ram lamb was also awarded Reserve Male Champion. Ryedale show saw our sheep winning all the adult classes and the group class, and subsequently reserve overall Champion with our shearling ram DG 5034, a Cairnhill Cavalier son. This ram also won the recorded ram class at Builth Wells I NSA Sale and was reserve overall Champion.

2005 Show Update

Our 2005 show season saw our shearling ewe DG 4496 won Champion Sheep and Interbreed Champion at Malton Show, and Urlay Nook Endeavour XP 4034 won Champion Charollais Interbreed at Ryedale show and subsequently went on to become National Male Champion of Champions at the inaugural competition held at Westmoorland County Show. 

Urlay Nook Endeavour, XP 4034