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Advantages of the Border Leicester

The advantages of using a Border Leicester Ram are :

  • The facility of transmitting to the offspring from all types of dam, the characteristics of rapid growth and prolificacy, carcase conformation and milkiness.
  • Uniformity - The crossbred progeny show a strong uniformity - an important factor in selling both butchers` and breeding stock.
  • Easy Lambing. The clean aquiline head, and not overheavy shoulders mean that the Border Leicester Ram can safely be used on the smallest ewes, e.g. the very successful Welsh Halfbred which is produced from one of our smallest hill ewes, the Welsh Mountain ewe.
  • High survival rate of newly born crossbred lambs in harsh climatic conditions is legendary through their thick covering of wool inherited from the Border Leicester. The crossbred females when used for fat lamb production have this inherent hardiness which extends their productive life.
  • Suffolk X females out of Scottish Halfbred ewes are renowned for their ability to produce early prime lamb.

Quality Border Leicester

Rams may be purchased at the official Society Sales at :

  • Aberdeen
  • Abergele
  • Ballyclare
  • Builth Wells
  • Exeter
  • Kelso
  • Lanark
  • Lockerbie
  • Perth
  • Thurso
  • Welshpool
  • Wick