Suffolk Sheep

We cross many of our Suffolk ewes with Wiltshire rams to produce ideal finished lambs for the farm shops we supply. There is always the option to keep the ewe lambs on to make smart speckle faced breeding ewes which would, particularly with a second cross of Wiltshire, make a good breeding flock requiring no shearing. The best ewes are bred pure to produce eight or ten shearling rams a year for regular local farmer cusomers. We have avoided going down modern route of breeding sheep with huge heads and excessive bone which our customers don't require.
We were delighted with last year's lambs by the new ram, purchased from Robyn Hume in 2008, which is 50% New Zealand blood and also carries the double muscling gene (see picture below). So much so that we purchased a second one from Robyn in 2009, if anything a little longer and with a very tight coat. This years lambs, all by these two rams, are looking good at the moment, it will be very interesting to see how they progress.

50% NZ 2-shear ram (3rd from right) with his first crop shearling rams