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The Border Leicester Sheep

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This website is dedicated to the Border Leicester Sheep. The sheep industry's "Great Improver"- proven over 100 years as the ram best suited to improving the quality of meat from upland and mountain ewe flocks.

These powerful, white faced, prick-eared sheep are bred throughout the UK and have been exported to most countries in the world. The breed has had enormous impact on the flocks of the Antipodean countries.

Inheriting fecundity the female daughters of the Border Leicester are in great demand as low ground breeding stock. Most common are the Scotch and Welsh Half Breds, bred from Cheviot and Welsh Mountain ewes respectively. Male lambs easily meet packing plant specifications making the Border Leicester the outstanding potential for all sheep farmers.

All pedigree Border Leicesters are Maedi Visna Accredited and there are major breed sales at Kelso, Lanark, Aberdeen and Builth Wells each year. Stock is also available direct from breeders.

Read on through our site where you will find all sorts of interesting information regarding the history, description and uses of the Border Leicester. You will find pages of breeders and their locations and lots of associated information.

If you want anymore information please fill in the query box and we'll come back to you as soon as possible!

We hope you enjoy the site.




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Did you know that in the 1780s Robert Bakewell of Dishley, Leics. was renting out tups by the season for the equivalent of £88,000 in todays money?