Texel Sheep

'HIGHTECS'
TEXEL SHEEP
2006 2ND PLACED LARGE FLOCK IN THE NORTH WEST

The Texel sheep originates from the Island of Texel, one of the north-western Islands off Holland. They were introduced to the UK in 1970 and bred principally with the Lincoln, as well as the Border Leicester, South Down, Hampshire Down and Wensleydale, to improve its potential.
The Texel has primarily been developed as a meat breed as it excels in carcass quality and in particular, in lean meat yield.

The Hightecs flock originated in 1990.

In 2007 we bred some of our best lambs to date with excellent carcase shape and size.

Unfortunately, due to the Foot & Mouth outbreak and the Blue Tongue restrictions, our showing for 2007 was abruptly brought to an end. Also we have not been able to sell our rams at the sales in which they were originally entered.

'STONEDGE'
DUTCH TEXEL SHEEP

In 2005 we split the pure Dutch Texels from our Hightecs Texel flock, to create the Stonedge Dutch Texel flock, in order to keep these breeding lines purely dutch. We have put our Dutch tup, TURBO Harry to these ewes in the past few years.
He is one of the best Dutch Tups in the country, he consistently produces outstanding lambs.

Now for 2008 we have quite a number of his daughters in the flock so we will be using a Puleston ram, purchased in 2006.

He is a ram with a tremendous back end and will hopefilly improve the dutch side of our flock