Wicardo Flock - Pedigree & Commercial Sheep

28/05/2024

We have had a busy weekend on weaning. This is the majority of the Feb and march lambs. they have been changing fast this last month/ six weeks!

09/05/2024

That time of year again. All in and ready for a trim ✂️🐏

02/05/2024

Chartex tup lamb keeps catching the eye barely three weeks old

21/04/2024

This is worlds apart from Feb and march lambing!! these single lambs from early April will soon catch the smallest of the Feb group! Mental

11/04/2024

What a difference some sunshine makes!! Bout Bledy time!! 🌞🎉🙈

21/02/2024

Shows what worrying and stress can do to a pregnant sheep. Or even any sheep. I always go on about not stressing the animals and here is why! After yesterdays incident with the dog worrying we had two twins and a single still born in the night. Just a few days away from lambing naturally!! What a waste !! this won’t be the end of it either 😞

20/02/2024

Just what you need when you go to fetch your last batch of inlambers into the shed

18/02/2024

When the weather is delightful and your glad your in a shed!! Half way through lambing now and everything seems to be going a little better! Fingers crossed for some dry days 🤞🏻🤞🏻

01/01/2024

Happy new year to everyone!!
We would like to thank all of our customers of 2023. We are very greatful for your support!

We have had a very good season on the whole, with plenty of highs and lows as always! Joys of farming!!😅 Proud to find new homes for over 250 rams!!! We have some very exciting new prospects which have been busy sowing their oats this year, and now very much looking forward to getting the lambs on the ground! Scanning was a massive improvement on last year anyway! Hope everyone had a good Xmas and see you all next year!

15/12/2023

💥💥💥We have a dozen Charollais and a dozen Chartex ewe lambs going for a trip to Exeters Christmas Crackers sale!!💥💥💥 Kivells Agriculture

He had a surpless of ewe lambs in these breeds this year and just felt it was a good place to try out selling a few. They have some very good breeding behind them and have been farmed on a grass based system. Will go away and breed fat stock lambs or breeding rams! All had their vaccines bolus fluke and wormer. Merry Xmas to all!👌🎉

02/12/2023

12/11/2023

Big Dave 😅

02/11/2023

We also have some Chartex ewe lambs available. Feb born again. They are composite bred, several generations in now. We have used some very good lines to breed them. Originally out of our pedigree charollais ewes with high index texel tups over then, moving forward mostly with durno bred rams, with some others in the mix. These would certainly breed tups or show stock lambs. Would tup this year. There are a few smaller ones aswell. Born very late in the season. Pm for more info.

02/11/2023

We have a small selection of charollais ewe lambs available if anyone is interested. They are February born. Sired by a homebred tup which was bred from a logie durno ewe by our old favourite allt luw, or a fox hill tup which was maternal brother to va va voom. I haven’t weighed them but they are reasonable size lambs! Would tup. Just had grass. Pm for more info. Based near Exeter

31/10/2023

Soon be wrapping up the sales season. But still some demand for tups so one last post 😬 . We actually have a handy selection left, all grass reared and well bred. charollais Suffolks and texels and crosses too. We have some quality bfl x texel rams which were ”sold” but I think either the chap has died or has lost the ability to answer his phone 😅😂 . Either way be a shame for those to sit here with no work. Il post a video of the bunch in the yard in comments. A few marked rams are sold..

Charollais and Chartex ewe lambs available aswell. Two Dutch spotted cross ewe lambs also. Pm for more details based at Kenn near Exeter

13/10/2023

Grass fed shearling rams. We have some quality rams left. Limited numbers available on some of the breeds now but still a cracking selection available for the time of year! Tups for all jobs and pockets! Located near Exeter.

03/10/2023

We have some real good Suffolk rams available. High index back breeding, very commercial sorts! Grass reared. Fit and spirited! We have a range of quality and prices on all of our breeds. Based near Exeter . Pm for more info

22/09/2023

Doing some harness colour changes this afternoon, for the tupping groups. This mob is the lions share of our Suffolk x charollais composite flock. The tup is also homebred. Much smarter to look at in their breed groups! And a much nicer day for it!!

21/09/2023

We have an aged stock ram available if anyone is interested.. he has done us very well, but we have three shearlings entered our stock ram team this year so he will be massively underused moving forward! definately needs more ladies! This is a pure Suffolk originally bred at Barton suffolks. He is part New Zealand bred. Absolute crackjck of a ram, those pics definately don’t do him justice! He has bred length and growth, with those clean lines and silky black hair. He’s always kept his condition well, and is a spirited active ram. Which is a big positive with the suffolks!

We of course also have a good selection of shearling rams left of our various breeds. Which have been moving fast so if interested please get in touch soon!!

19/09/2023

When you go to Builth wells nsa ram sale with a shopping list and fail to get what you went for.. but end up with this little beast of a Suffolk! What a sheep! Chuffed to bits with him. Roll on lambing 2024.

04/09/2023

Brother is selling a well bred Angus bull if anyone interested pm Chris Berry

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1628613657462247/permalink/3705436333113292/

15/08/2023

Chartex shearling rams. These boys have really come out of themselves this last couple weeks!! Unbelievable difference in them. These are also available off farm all season. focus on indexes as always, with length and skins to die for! always a popular cross these! Great crossing rams! Pm for more info

15/08/2023

Dutch spotted stock ram available

We have been crossing some with Dutch spotted for a bit of fun this last couple years. There are a few first cross females which are very well bred available. And this boy which we used on the first cross hogs last year to get another generation of crosses. He’s from cofton flock. Fully pedigree. Very smart tight skinned ram. And breeds it too!

15/08/2023

Suffolk shearling rams available off the farm at Kenn near Exeter. These boys are all done naturally. We don’t supplement feed our rams at all for sale condition. We are chuffed with this bunch of rams. They are probably the best bunch we have had. There is a lot of high index back breeding, which is definately leaving a marked difference in the performance of these guys.most of the stock sires are in the top 1% of the breed. Good fit active rams, bred and reared with longevity and performance in mind! We have many other breeds and crosses available aswell. Pm for more info 👌

06/08/2023

Grass fed charollais shearling tups available off farm all season. bred and reared in a large commercial system with plenty of selection pressure. will go on to grow into big rams and serve a lot of ewes. Very fit beasts😁 based at Kenn near Exeter. Loads of other breeds also! Pm for more info

30/07/2023

This is the Suffolk x charollais batch of tups. All shearlings, all grass fed vaccinated wormed and bloussed. Ready for action 🙂. Bred and reared in a large commercial system, plenty of selection pressure with commercial performance goals! We have always had performance in mind, many high index rams throughout the back breeding. Latterly we have been hybridising these guys. Using the best of the new lines we can introduce from home and we have also introduced an aberblack ram which is the sire of half of these. He can be found in a video on the feed of this page. He was the highest index aberblack at the time, and I think highest priced innovis sheep to date 🙈😂. We have some exciting prospects going forward from this flock. They are proving themselves in a huge range of systems as well!

They are available off farm all season. Also some entered in the Exeter breeding sale this coming Tuesday. Please pm for more info

26/07/2023

We had the sufftex rams selected yesterday so I grabbed a quick video while I could. These boys are all first cross rams. Some have Suffolk sires and texel dams and some the other way around (Soon to be hybridised like the others) looking well on just perminant pasture and reasonably rough grazing. These are available off farm anytime all season. Based at Kenn near Exeter. Please pm for more info. Loads of other breeds available

20/07/2023

Sorting tups again.. this mob is headed to a meadow to tidy up after some lambs. Suffolks charollais and Suffolk x rams. And the bfl x texels in this mob. We just entered some for the next breeding sale at exeter livestock centre. please get in touch if you would like to view any of them.

16/07/2023

Quick video this evening of some of the Blue face Leicester x Texel shearling rams we have available. We are really pleased with these boys! Reared off grass as always. Originally bred from our Blue Leicester flock with high index texel rams, and more recently have been hybridised by mating crossbred parents. Definitely been worth the journey of finding the right genetics and experimenting with the breeding here.. it’s starting to pay off! 😃 Please pm me if interested.

12/07/2023

7 Dutch spotted x shearling ewes. They are out of Chartex, charollais, beltex, black beltex or texel dams. Very smart sheep. Ram was from cofton flock. Will get his pedigree. Based near Exeter. 250 ea Ono.