Lleyn Commercial Quality
Lleyn lambs continue to dominate the prime lamb market up and down the country. Check out the most recent prices sent in from members for their sheep:
Make sure to visit the Society stand at NSA Sheep South West on Wednesday 25th June!
Lleyn lambs continue to dominate the prime lamb market up and down the country. Check out the most recent prices sent in from members for their sheep:
Entry Forms for our Online Society Sale - which runs from Friday 1st August to Sunday 3rd August - are now LIVE on our website to download!
Published in Farmers Guardian - 30th May 2025
The Society would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who popped along to visit us on the stand at NSA North Sheep event!
The Society would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who popped along to visit us on the stand at the NSA Welsh Sheep event!
There was a great turnout at The Royal Cornwall Show this year, with 11 exhibitors battling for places with 93 Lleyn sheep entered! Well done to all who took part. Results are as follows.
The Society would like to congratulate all exhibitors who turned out a fantastic show of sheep at this year’s Balmoral Show and to the Northern Ireland Lleyn Sheep Breeders Club for their continued effort in supporting the show.
Please find below the confirmed 2025 Club Open Days taking place across the country!
Online Sale: 1st - 3rd August – Harrison and Hetherington. More information HERE
Flocking your way to our 2024 AGM weekend?
The last Society sale of the season took place at CCM Skipton, where an increased entry of 346 head of Lleyn sheep witnessed prices for shearling ewes peak at £245 per head.
Vendors enjoyed a very buoyant trade at the Lleyn Sheep Society’s annual sale of rams and females at Borderway Mart, Carlisle, where a top price of £700 was achieved amongst the shearling ewes, with the section averaging £259.59 – up £62.81 on the year.
Sunday 25th August had been marked on the calendar for Lleyn enthusiasts across the UK as the Walling Family of Farmstock Gentics opened their doors for the Scottish & Borders Lleyn Club Open Day. The respect and admiration for the quality of stock frequently brought forward by the Walling family could be seen with nearly 90 people gathering including a strong Welsh contingent..
Shearling ewes forward from W Davies’ Bronallt flock, Morfa Nefyn, met a roaring trade at the annual Welshpool Society Sale, soaring to £290 per head, with the section levelling out at £242.91 – some £76.28 up on the corresponding year.
Lleyn females were in exceptional demand at the Stirling Society Sale, with shearling ewes selling to a high of £315 per head, with averages for the section up by £68.57 on the year.
Market records for Lleyn sheep were smashed at the recent Ballymena Society sale, where the Kennedy family, from Ballyclare, enjoyed an exhilarating trade for their stock as they led three of the four sections at this year’s sale.
George and Lee-Ann Calwell and their family of Daisylane Lleyns hosted the N I Lleyn Sheep Breeders Club open day at their farm in Ballyreagh near Clough, Ballymena.
Lleyn sheep breeders were left ecstatic following the annual Society show and sale at Ross-on-Wye, where a strong trade prevailed from the very start right through until the last lot, and vendors and buyers alike came together to watch Carmarthenshire-based breeder, Lionel Organ’s Southam dispersal sale soar to £510 for his leading female.