Black woolled and white socked, Zwartbles were considered a bit of a joke when they first arrived in the UK nearly 15 years ago. They were initially sidelined by mainstream sheep producers, who saw it ...

Suffolks sold to a top price of 1,900gns at the Carlisle and Northern Counties show and sale at Borderway Mart on Friday (5 August). Sale leader was a triplet-born ram lamb by Stockton Turbine and out ...

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A Zwartbles-cross ewe scanned as carrying triplet lambs surprised Newport, Co Mayo, farmer Alan Mulchrone by giving birth to a crop of no fewer than five healthy lambs on Friday. Mulchrone said that ...

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A WELSH farmer who bought a handful of Zwartbles for his young children to raise as a hobby, has turned the idea into a successful business A WELSH farmer who bought a handful of Zwartbles for his ...

Two weeks from now the curtain rises on another summer agricultural show season and one of the many who will be competing with livestock at Otley Show on May 21 is Zwartbles sheep breeder Martin ...

THIS year’s Great Yorkshire Show hosted the national Zwartbles sheep show for the first time. But it was ten years earlier that one of the exhibitors, Ailsa Dickinson, first came across the breed and ...

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