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Southdowns: meat the breedSecretary: Gail Sprake (All Saints flock),Meens Farm, Capps Lane, All Saints, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 0PD. Tel: 01986 782251 Mobile: 07885 777921E-mail: [email protected]: www.southdownsheepsociety.co.uk
Photographs & drawings: Copyright Southdown Sheep Society (Gareth Lloyd Hughes Photography, Goldsworthy Associates Limited, Jake Tebbit)
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Contents
• History• Populations trends• Why Southdowns• A split personality?• Flock health and management
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Breed History• 18th century > 200,000• John Ellman (Glynde) 1753-1832• Jonas Webb (Babraham) 1796 – 1862• Thomas Coke (Holkham)1754 –1842
• A down and heathland breed with fine wool, bred for meat production
• Breed Society - 1892
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National Foundation Stock
• with the Norfolk Horn, the Suffolk.
• with existing stock, the Hampshire Down
• via the Hampshire Down, the Oxford Down
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International Foundation Stock
• Southdowns exported worldwide• New Zealand
• Australia• USA• Europe
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UK Imports
• New Zealand
• France
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Southdown trends – registered breeders
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Breed Recovery
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Docile and easy to handle
Why Southdowns
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Tight stocking, thrive on very little
Why Southdowns
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Easy lambing
Why Southdowns
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Early finishing
Why Southdowns
Catches premium pricesEases grazing pressure
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Outstanding conformation
Why Southdowns
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Great taste
Why Southdowns
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Great looks
Why Southdowns
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A split personality or a breed for all
seasonsCommercial• Larger and heavier
– faster finish and larger final carcase
• Rams 90-100kg• Lambs 38-40kg lwt
• Leaner
Smallholder• “Traditional” small
and compact – easy to handle
• Rams 80-90kg• Lambs 35-38kg lwt
Flocks are of many different shapes and sizes; it’s horses for courses.
The only bad sheep is a dead sheep!
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Flock health and management
• Only 1 flock still scrapie testing• c. 8 flocks MV accredited
• c.7 flocks in Signet recording scheme – weight recording and fat scanning
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Scheme participants
Scrapie• All Saints
MV accredited• Brompton• Chaileybro
ok• Golden
Valley• etc
Signet Recorded• All Saints• Birch Hoe• Chaileybro
ok• East Dean• Gunton• Webbellis• Woolbedin
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