In keeping with tradition, entries in the bigger sheep and cattle breeds, such as the Texel and Holstein Friesian breeds, are up. |
He uses a Texel ram on the Suffolk ewes and a Suffolk ram on the Texel ewes. |
Fifteen-year-old James Winter, who has only been breeding sheep for two years, won the champion sheep title with his Texel. |
Entries have been particularly strong in the Limousin and Holstein cattle breeds and in the Texel and Suffolk sheep categories. |
Graham says the aim is to breed a more modern type of Suffolk to enable the breed to compete with such continental strains as the Texel. |
A flock of 200 ewes, half of which are Suffolks and the rest Mules, are run with either a Texel or a Suffolk tup to produce fat lambs. |