Bearwood Lleyn Sheep

13/06/2025

Quintessentially Herefordshire - Hereford cattle and cider apple orchards🙂

05/06/2025

This ram (1312/2307460) ticked all the boxes when searching for new bloodlines at Carlisle sale last September. In my opinion he was the pick of the pen, and as a bonus he had performance figures to back him up.

His first crop of lambs look classy and doing well on our grass based system, and it’s nice to see him standing No 1 in the latest list of Signet’s “Leading Stock Sires” for performance recorded Lleyn sheep.

06/05/2025

09/03/2025

Lambing well under way. Spirits high in the lambing shed, and that has a lot to do with the sunny weather we are experiencing.

Some cracking lambs from our new stock sires from and

Ewes lambing with no intervention, and straight out to the field within 24hrs. May this continue into the 2nd week.

21/12/2024

🐑 SHEEP ATTACKS 🐑

Just this week alone we have had to deal with 3 separate sheep attack incidents involving dogs.
The attacks have happened in different areas, and have affected numerous sheep each time. Unfortunately, all cases have resulted in death or euthanasia.

This time of year, ewes are heavily pregnant and will be lambing imminently.

Please keep your dog under close control and on a lead especially when near or around livestock. Even if your dog isn't aggressive towards sheep, if they are running and causing the ewes stress, this can lead to them aborting their lambs.

This is a very distressing situation to the farmers, us and most importantly the sheep. Let's all work together to minimise these incidents.

Team AVP 🐑 💚

23/09/2024

27/04/2024

I think the middle lamb knows that the time has come to be moved to the paddock today, and is getting as much milk as it can 😁. I find the best way to wean orphan lambs is to take them off milk abruptly at 6 weeks of age, however, they have been getting used to water, grass and creep for the past fortnight, to minimise the stress of moving to a new diet.

02/04/2024

Lambing over for another year with a Blue Texel having a lovely ewe lamb. This year 70% of the Blue Texel lamb crop were ewe lambs, which makes me very happy 😊
Blue Texel Sheep

25/03/2024

A good old tree stump makes a great playground 😁
Blue Texel Sheep

12/03/2024

Lambing underway. Using vasectomised rams has shortened our lambing period. 90% of ewes lamb within 15 days.
Lleyn Sheep Society. Blue Texel Sheep

14/02/2024

3 weeks prior to lambing. Ewes have benefited from being inside for the past month as they were beginning to loose condition on saturated ground. Having scanned at 180%, ad-lib haylage and controlled use of Lifeline blocks have brought them into good condition.