Archive Farm Features
View archive farm features highlight the Lleyn Sheep versatility in flocks and on farms throughout UK and Ireland
Lleyn producing top quality Beltex x Texel prime lambs at Kinnerton Shropshire
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Texel tups used on Lleyn ewes to produce cross-bred prime lambs - David Knowles, Cumbria
Lleyn Proving Successful for Low-Input, High Out-Put System
Wills Estate, Rutland, Leicestershire Flock 1704 – Leighfield Lleyns
The Lleyn Ewe Works Hard for Us
DJ & PS Hale, Kents Green Farm, Kents Green, Tibberton, Gloucestershire Flock 937
Lleyn Being Noticed on Marginal Land - Lleyn x Cheviot crosses W R & J Barron, The Deans Farm, Muggleswick, Consett, Co Durham
Maximising the Value of Wether Lambs on an Upland Farm
PE Dixon, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria Flock 2802
Beltex & Lleyn in Perfect Harmony Anthony & Jane Williams, Llwyncelyn Farm, Llywel, Trecastle
Producing Quality Rams on a Mixed Family Farm - DT Jones, Bryn-Rhydd, Edern, Pwllheli, Flock 2339
Alister Watson, Lockerbie, Flock 2326, Lleyn flock of breeding sheep is key to this progressive young farmer success. READ MORE>>
Using Lleyn to Produce a LleynTex Female for a Commercial Closed Flock, Jacob Anthony, T Anthony & Sons, Cwm Risca Farm, Tondu, Bridgend
Coleg Meirion Dwyfor, Glynllifon Flock 2577
Fallen in Love with the Lleyn - Flock 2567,Darren and Sarah Searle are first generation farmers who started off with sheep as a hobby, but it has now become a serious enterprise
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Lleyn with a commercial Focus in North Devon - Robin and Emma were really delighted with the outstanding performance and maternal attributes that their Lleyn has demonstrated.
Striving for Success in Ireland
Alan McDonald, Ormston House, Killeigh, Co Offaly Flock 1852, what he is doing and his success doesn’t just happen by accident. No stone is left unturned in his constant search for improvement.
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The Lleyn Ticks all the boxes for Young Couple Bethan sums up with “The Lleyn is an ewe which we can both handle, she produces marketable lambs and she provides us with the additional option of selling replacements easily. The Lleyn ticks all the boxes for us”
Performance on Pastures New
"Profitability in sheep farming is always determined by the number of lambs available for sale" This was the light bulb moment that led David to search for a prolific breed.
Dan Jones Great Orm My time as a shearer taught me that there are variations within breeds. It was important to me to select what I would call traditional breed types. 340 Lleyn of a medium size were chosen with a good tight coat to help keep out the winter weather.
Lleyn punching above their weight Lleyn are definitely punching above their weight
by making more profit in terms of lamb production and grazing per acre.
Lleyn - Making Financial Sense Jo Nolan, Kilconnor, Fenagh, Bagenalstown, Co Carlow Farmers of the 21st century are entrepreneurs required to put a flexible and workable setup in place on their farms. The success of their farms rests squarely on their shoulders and more and more success is measured in terms of profit and loss. READ MORE>>
The Modern Malling Flock uses Lleyn Gold and Twitter. We have always maintained a lot of records, birth weights, 21week weights, ewe condition scores, lambing difficulties etc. so when Lleyn Gold came along it was an easy decision to sign up to the scheme.
Carving out a True Lleyn Fergal Leonard, Offaly, Ireland. Flock 2830 Working a full-time job, the Lleyn really suited Fergal’s work-life balance as they are low input and low labour. The maternal traits of the Lleyn with milk and great mothering ability makes lambing short
The Move to MVA Makes Business Sense for the Davidsons
Pam summarises that she feels some breeds are seeing high levels of assisted lambings which is filtering down into the commercial flocks. Pam believes that the Lleyn is able to avoid this with higher survival rates and increased lambing percentages. The Lleyn ewe has also proved to have a great mothering ability able to thrive at Skaill Farm.
The Lleyn Ewe - A SUITABLY Sustainable Sheep
The Lleyn is a prime example of how a breed of sheep is suitably sustainable in producing products whilst ensuring minimal emissions are released. Capturing carbon within its wool, sheep provide both a high fibre product and a high protein food source which can have an extremely low carbon footprint.
A Next Generation View on Environment, Sustainability, Efficiency
Genetics are key to making improvements, they require no extra inputs, are permanent and can be improved each year, but it is a long term solution. The first step is to set breeding goals, these could be different for each flock, but the overall aim is to breed a robust Lleyn ewe, that can produce as much lamb as possible from the minimum amount of feed, land and labour.
Beltex brings the shape and the Lleyn bringsthe growth and milk
Keeping things simple Mr Rattray buys in replacements as shearling ewes rather than breeding his own Lleyn, with the aim being to buy strong, lengthy shearlings with the potential to produce fast growing, quality lambs. Putting the Beltex on the Lleyn is the ideal combination
Producing Crossbred Lambs for the Commercial Market
The farms Lleyn flock scan around 220% with a few multiples but these are successfully adopted onto other ewes. The farm produces prime lambs which are sold at 42-45kg from seventy percent of the flock with the Texel and Texel x Beltex rams used as a terminal sire.
Yellow Tractors, Organics, Herbal Leys and
Maternal Lleyn Ewes
The Lleyn fits the organic system, enabling lambs to be finished off a forage fed diet of clover rich leys, forage rape and kale crops. The flock is run closed hence no females are brought in and only occasional rams to encourage new bloodlines within the nucleus flock. “I look for growth rates and maternal traits with increasing interest in selecting for worm resistance" Matt Haydon Read More>>
Lleyn Sheep Proving a Success on Marginal Farm
John comments on the Lleyn lamb having a better growth rate and has the ability to reach higher weights at time of sale Lleyn ewes produce a higher weaning weight of lamb per ewe place he puts it down to the natural ability of the ewe to produce milk. Read More>>