SCOTTISH & BORDERS LLEYN SHEEP BREEDERS CLUB
Farm Walk

Saturday 23rd August
Derek & Cindy Steen (Flock 809) at Whitcastles Farm, Corrie, Lockerbie, DG11 2NR

Scottish & Borders Lleyn Breeders Club
“Lleyn - the profitable sheep for the future”
An invitation to a Farm Walk
On
Saturday 23rd August 2008
at 1pm
Whitcastles Farm, Corrie, Lockerbie, DG11 2NR
By kind permission of
Derek & Cindy Steen

Come and see Lleyn sheep on this upland farm
Including
Flock 809 - The Ballylinney pedigree Flock
Commercial Lleyn sheep and a variety of crosses
An insight into the breeding policy of a large self contained beef suckler herd
Farm Walk , Stockjudging, Barbeque

Please join us at our farm walk this summer & see what the Lleyn could do in your flock!!
Sign posted from Lockerbie town centre
For more information go to
www.lleynsheep.info

Focus on Derek Steen Flock of Lleyns

FEW BREEDS have made more of an impact on the sheep industry in recent years than the Lleyn and with producers aiming to further improve the breed’s shape and conformation, the demand for this Welsh female sheep looks set to soar to new heights.

Granted, this white-bred sheep has always been renowned for its ease of management and prolificacy, however, a growing number of breeders are now beginning to realise the better end of the sheep can survive admirably further up the hill as well as on the lowland and produce a valuable finished lamb crop.
Derek & Cindy Steen farm on the Scottish Borders and runs a flock of 1000 ewes “We’ve always produced R grade or better pure-bred Lleyn lambs, Lleyns will easily grow to 42kg off grass and still produce R grade carcases.”
However, Derek is keen to stress that while the Lleyn is very much a female breed, he has always looked to breed sheep with added shape and conformation.
“The Lleyn has proved that she has the inherent milkiness, prolificacy and ease of management combined with a high health status”
“The Lleyn enables me to keep a closed flock which reduces the cost of having to buy in females and makes for improved disease control” Lleyn ewes will easily rear two lambs, which are quick onto their feet and hardy the ewes are easy to feed.
“We saved 30-40% of our feed bill by switching to Lleyns and we stocked them tighter.
“We are great Lleyn fans — I doubt if any other breed or sheep will be more profitable than the Lleyn,” concluded Derek.

Farm Facts
All grassland farm
Situated on the Scottish Borders, UK
1000 Pedigree Lleyns
April / May lambing
Lambs sold September onwards at 42Kg live weight
Sale of high priced rams and females (record breaking)
Large commercial suckler herd
Derek is Vice Chairman of the Lleyn Sheep Society
Photos available on request.

Contacts
Derek & Cindy Steen
Whitcastles, Farm, Corrie, Lockerbie, DG11 2NR
TEL 01576 710641
MOB 07703581191
David Knowles, Club Secretary
Cragg Farm, New Hutton, Kendal, Cumbria LA8 0BA
TEL 01539 721760
MOB 07761470230
E Mail david@cragglleyns.co.uk

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